Update No. 5: 10. January.2012
Stanford: www.ai-class.com (Certificate of attendance from professors but not Stanford). Additional certification with credits at German university ( Prof. Wolfram Burgard at the University of Freiburg! http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~burgard/ai_exams/: many international Universities accept such a certificate)
Other free classes at Stanford Engineering.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesmarshallcrotty/2011/12/21/m-i-t-game-changer-free-online-education-for-all/ (Certificate of attendance not from MIT)
Academic Earth: http://academicearth.org/
Khan Academy: http://www.khanacademy.org/ (K12 Education)
P2PU: http://p2pu.org/en/
The Open University Learning space (600 free courses also with credits): http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/ See Credit Accumulation and Transfer scheme (CATS):http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_Accumulation_and_Transfer_Scheme. (Remark: Can be transfered into ECTS)
Udemy: www.udemy.com (free courses available not all) – I have started a free course myself: http://ude.my/uWKNlR.
Free online learning resources:
see http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesmarshallcrotty/2012/01/01/free-education-for-all-a-meme-whose-time-has-come/2/
Open Learning Initiative: http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/
Learning English Video Lectures:
http://www.businessbookmall.com/Learning%20English%20Video%20Lectures.htm
Online College Classes: http://www.onlinecollegeclasses.com/
Alison (Over 300 Free Online classes at Certificate or Diploma Level: http://alison.com/
Any other university, organisation, instititution offering free education ?
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