One of the primary tasks when choosing appropriate free online degree courses is to conduct an extensive survey of the various universities offering the course and accomplish your preferred goal both quickly and easily. Online education is sometimes available free of cost depending on the course selected.
There is no need to go back to school to upgrade your education with a diploma, degree or certificate course. Education can now be obtained by sitting in the comfort of your home, in some cases, without spending a single penny. Online universities offer an array of courses for free with extensive study material available online. They are offered with the help of various modes like online lectures, tutorials, online classes and even through podcasts. However, most of them do not provide college credits or degrees to their students, usually certifications.
Some of the popular free online degree courses obtainable from well known US colleges and universities are:
- University of Washington offers offbeat free online programs like Greek Mythology, American Revolution and Heroic Fantasy.
- University of Nebraska provides courses that include Economics.
- Michigan State University offers Sign Language, Library of Congress and American Democracy. The online courses are undertaken with the help of free videos provided online on various subjects offered by a major provider of distance learning like Annenberg Media.
- Berkeley University offers free online course in Computer Science wherein course material is recorded in MP3 as well as media video. It was considered the 20th best nationally in online courses by USnews.com in a 2006 study.
- Covenant Seminary provides courses on Theology as well Church History to the Modern Reformation which is offered through study material available in either downloadable .pdf files or podcasts.
- Whatcom Community College offers contemporary a free online Math course
- Carnegie Mellon University provides students with conventional courses in the field of Biology, Causal Reasoning and Statistics
- Penn State University provides free language courses in Swedish and Hungarian
- Brooklyn College offers Italian languages
- California State University or University of Arizona offer languages like Mandarin, Chinese or Turkish.
- University of Washington School of Medicine offers free CPR classes taught with the help of video and specific study materials
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health offers courses like Adolescent Health and Population Science
- Missouri Southern State University allows you to educate yourself about US citizenship
This is just a short list of some courses offered by renowned universities absolutely free. However, there is a whole range of smaller universities and educational institutes offering an array of interesting courses from various fields totally free.
Sources for collecting study material for free online degree courses from different universities are:
- Stanford University offers its free CS education library
- MIT allows students to visit the college for free classes
- Berkeley University offers study material in iPod form
- University of Pennsylvania allows you to browse through thousands of online books from their online library
- Princeton University allows you to either read or watch lectures provided online
- Search engines (like Google) are excellent sources of information. However, it is important to search with the help of the correct keywords. It can provide you information in the area of online lectures, tutorials, study material, podcasts or course syllabi as well as free online books.
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