Our HR Site: Free Online Courses and Classes

This is an ever-changing area with many options. Major universities are offering classes, some are several weeks in duration and others are hour-long videos. If you live near a public library, a good librarian can help you find additional classes.

An article on eHow provides information about how to make the most of your online training. Just scroll down to the Tips & Warnings section. http://www.ehow.com/how_4930220_online-classes-yale-harvard-berkeley.html

Academic Earth http://www.academicearth.org/

Many top universities provide content and you may earn a degree. http://www.academicearth.org/subjects/onlinedegreeprograms/

Carnegie Mellon University http://oli.cmu.edu/

Courses are listed here: http://oli.cmu.edu/learn-with-oli/see-our-free-open-courses/

Coursera www.coursera.org
Coursera offers courses from Princeton University, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, and University of Pennsylvania.

EDX https://www.edx.org/

EdX currently offers HarvardX, MITx and UC BerkeleyX classes online for free.
Explore the classes at https://www.edx.org/courses.

GCFLearnFree.org http://www.gcflearnfree.org

Courses include computer basics, reading (for English speakers and English learners), basic math and many other topics including how to create a budget. Good tutorials for kids, too. A full list of categories is at http://www.gcflearnfree.org/topics.

HP Learning Center http://h30440.www3.hp.com/learningcenter/

Courses are listed at http://h30440.www3.hp.com/learningcenter/Classes/ClassAll.aspx.

iTunes U http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/

You don’t have to have an Apple product to use iTunes. Download iTunes onto your computer or phone and look for the iTunesU image. Free classes from top universities are offered.

Khan Academy http://www.khanacademy.org/

Over 3,000 videos, most are relatively short, on a wide variety of topics. Great for adults and younger students.

Knowmia http://www.knowmia.com/

Over 7,000 video classes…and counting. This site is targeting high school students, but some of the classes could be good introductions to subjects. If you want to learn a new language or brush up on history or grammar, this is a good place to start.

LearningSpace http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/

Over 600 free online courses from introductory to advanced level, each takes between 1 and 50 hours to study.

London School of Business and Finance: LSBF Global MBA http://www.lsbf.org.uk/

“This internationally renowned business school is offering its entire online MBA program for free. Anyone can sign up for their Facebook application to gain access to all of the course content from the program, including hundreds of hours of videos, lessons, assignments and educational resources. Students who would like to earn the degree can apply to LSBF and pay tuition retroactively at the end.”

Microsoft Office Training http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training-FX101782702.aspx

Microsoft Product Training http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/default.aspx

MIT Open Courseware http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm?goback=%2Egde_110955_member_95116173

Courses are listed by department at http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/.

Notre Dame OpenCourseWare http://ocw.nd.edu/

Areas of study listed at http://ocw.nd.edu/courselist.

Open Culture http://www.academicearth.org/

Free courses, books, audio books, online courses and much more.

Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/

Download free out of copyright ebooks.

Stanford’s Free Online Courses http://stanford.edu/online/courses

UC Berkeley Video and Podcasts for Courses & Events http://webcast.berkeley.edu/ (also on iTunesU)