Free Online College Courses Help People Get Educated Despite the Recession
At a time when few people can afford the high cost of tuition, free college courses posted online by top universities allow self motivated learners to pursue education. The vast range of free classes is indexed at UniversitiesAndColleges.org in "The Master List of Free Online College Courses," which includes over 500 courses from schools like Yale, Stanford, and MIT.
Los Angeles, CA, April 28, 2009 --(PR.com)-- At a time when few people can afford the high cost of college tuition, free online college courses from top universities are allowing learners to pursue education unhindered. Over 500 free classes are indexed at UniversitiesAndColleges.org in "The Master List of Free Online College Courses," which includes material from Yale, Stanford, and MIT.
This massive collection of courses covers a wide variety of subjects from the arts and humanities, to science, engineering, and business. The majority of these courses are shared freely online as part of the OpenCourseWare project. Project participants publish course materials to the internet for free public use in the spirit of the opensource movement.
These free courses are extremely useful at a time when few people have money to pay for tuition and the effectiveness of traditional university education is being called into question. In a recent Op-Ed in the New York Times, Mark C. Taylor, chair of the religion department at Columbia University, wrote, "Most graduate programs in American universities produce a product for which there is no market (candidates for teaching positions that do not exist) and develop skills for which there is diminishing demand (research in subfields within subfields and publication in journals read by no one other than a few like-minded colleagues), all at a rapidly rising cost (sometimes well over $100,000 in student loans)."
In another compelling opinion piece at Slate, David Pollard wrote about his experience with independent learning, where the freedom to explore topics on his own transformed him from an average student to a truly exceptional one with a passion for education. He goes on to note P.S. Pirro's new book "101 Reasons Why I'm an Unschooler," which promotes learning without formal curriculum timelines, grades, or coercion.
For students seeking education on an independent path, free of restrictive curriculum and high tuition costs, the Master List of Free Online College Courses is a valuable resource. It can be found at Universities and Colleges: Online Education Resources, which features resources and advice for online learners and college prospects.
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This massive collection of courses covers a wide variety of subjects from the arts and humanities, to science, engineering, and business. The majority of these courses are shared freely online as part of the OpenCourseWare project. Project participants publish course materials to the internet for free public use in the spirit of the opensource movement.
These free courses are extremely useful at a time when few people have money to pay for tuition and the effectiveness of traditional university education is being called into question. In a recent Op-Ed in the New York Times, Mark C. Taylor, chair of the religion department at Columbia University, wrote, "Most graduate programs in American universities produce a product for which there is no market (candidates for teaching positions that do not exist) and develop skills for which there is diminishing demand (research in subfields within subfields and publication in journals read by no one other than a few like-minded colleagues), all at a rapidly rising cost (sometimes well over $100,000 in student loans)."
In another compelling opinion piece at Slate, David Pollard wrote about his experience with independent learning, where the freedom to explore topics on his own transformed him from an average student to a truly exceptional one with a passion for education. He goes on to note P.S. Pirro's new book "101 Reasons Why I'm an Unschooler," which promotes learning without formal curriculum timelines, grades, or coercion.
For students seeking education on an independent path, free of restrictive curriculum and high tuition costs, the Master List of Free Online College Courses is a valuable resource. It can be found at Universities and Colleges: Online Education Resources, which features resources and advice for online learners and college prospects.
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