Free Online Courses from Top Universities Education,

I was browsing Google+ the other night when I saw a link (from Francisco) to a post that listed 400 free online courses from top universities. IҀve heard about free course offerings but never really looked into it and I was so surprised to see such a wide variety of courses being offered by universities such as Stanford, Yale, MIT, Harvard, Oxford, UC Berkeley, Columbia University, Notre Dame, and the awesome UCLA!
Finals are around the corner for me so it is insane of me to be looking at these courses right now but eventually I do want to listen in on or watch the lectures of these amazing professors.
Some courses that IҀm going to look into are:

History
• History of New York City: A Social History ր Daniel Walkowitz, NYU
• Science, Magic and Religion ր Courtenay Raiai, UCLA

Journalism
• Journalistic Ethics ր Jim Newton, UCLA

Philosophy
• Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil ր Leo Strauss, U Chicago

Biology
• The Stanford Mini Med School (Fall) ր Multiple Professors
• The Stanford Mini Med School (Winter) ր Multiple Professors
• The Stanford Mini Med School (Spring) ր Multiple Professors

Computer Science
• Building Dynamic Web Sites ր David Malan, Harvard Extension
• Building Mobile Web Sites ր David Malan, Harvard Extension
• Intensive Introduction to Computer Science Using C, PHP, and JavaScript ր David Malan, Harvard
• iPhone Application Development (Spring 2009) ր Stanford
• iPhone Application Development (Winter 2010) ր Stanford

Psychology & Cognitive Sciences
• Human Emotion ր Dacher Keltner, UC Berkely
• Human Happiness ր Dacher Keltner, UC Berkeley

Business
• Entrepreneurship and Business Planning ր Mark Juliano, Carnegie Mellon
• Marketing 321 ր Elaine Daussy, Texas A&M

These are just the ones I am interested in. There are more courses under the subjects I have brought up here and other subjects include: Public Health, Physics, Natural Resources, Mathematics, Engineering (Mechanical, Civil, Electrical), Artificial Intelligence, Chemistry, Astronomy, Aeronautics, Urban Studies, Sociology, Religion, Political Science, International Relations and Law, Music, Literature, Linguistics, Law, Languages, Geography, Film, Economics, Classics & Classical World, Art & Art History, Architecture and Archaeology. To see the whole list of 400 Free Online Courses click here.
DonҀt see anything you like? Check out all of the courses offered by the following universities, and About.com even offers free courses where you receive courses via email on a daily or weekly basis!

• MIT Open Courseware
• Open Yale Courses
• Notre Dame Open Courseware
• Stanford on iTunes U
• Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative
• About U

Get an MIT or Yale Education Free

You can finally get that MIT, Yale, or University of Tokyo education you've always wanted without spending a cent. All it takes is an Internet-connected computer and a little familiarity with skills like downloading programs and unzipping files.
A growing number of universities are posting entire courses׀often including audio or video lectures, notes, reading lists, homework assignments, and exams׀on the Web. Professors won't grade the digital students' work, so the schools won't give credit. But you still get access to an elite education, and you don't even have to apply for admission. Now anyone can watch an MIT professor shoot a bullet in a Physics 1 course to demonstrate velocity or listen to a short Stanford course on the Future of the Internet. For the hundreds of online courses that just consist of notes and reading lists, your local public library can lend the books and articles you're "studying." While most of the courses are in English, there are a growing number of translation sites offering the materials in Chinese, Thai, Spanish, Portuguese, and other languages.
MIT has the most impressive catalog of online offerings, with several dozen complete college courses that can be found here. MIT has also posted reading lists and syllabuses for nearly every course it has offered in the past five years׀about 1,800 classes. To get students ready for college, MIT this year even launched a sub-site aimed at high schoolers. It offers fun how-to courses on building stereo speakers and guitars as well as help for students taking AP science and math courses.
Yale earlier this month launched complete videotaped versions of seven of its most popular courses, including astronomy, poetry, philosophy, and psychology. The university plans to add at least 30 more of its courses to its new website.
The Open Coursework Consortium serves as a clearinghouse for dozens of free courses from the University of Notre Dame, Johns Hopkins, and many overseas schools. And those who speak languages other than English can visit the site to find out how to audit remotely college classes given in China, France, South Korea, Mexico, Japan, and other countries.
And, of course, there's iTunes University. Berkeley, Duke, Stanford, and several other schools have posted free audio or video lectures for download here.