It’s free! You have no excuse! Please take some time and look through the classes!

Amor y luz,
Layla

The following list of 100 open courseware projects are designed to offer readers access to supplementary materials for education. They are free (hence “open”) and available to anyone who has access to the Internet.

1. Berklee Shares http://www.berkleeshares.com/: Here you will find free music lessons that you can download, share and trade with your friends and fellow musicians. These lessons are all excerpts from their twelve-week, instructor-led, online courses.
2. Berkman Center for Internet & Society http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/: This center, located at Harvard University, has a number of online initiatives including the release of the H20courseware software as open source project material.
3. Carnegie Mellon http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/forstudents/freecourses: This college’s open learning initiative provides free learning materials for courses such as engineering statics, modern biology, French and physics. The materials provided enact instruction for an entire course in an online format.
4. Center for the Study of the Public Domain http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/: The law department at Duke University has compiled an amazing resource for those interested in the realm of material – ideas, images, sounds, discoveries, facts, texts – unprotected by intellectual property rights and free for all to use or build upon. This is the most amazing of all the centers and program materials offered by Duke Law.
5. Columbia Interactive http://ci.columbia.edu/ci/: This is the gateway to selected electronic learning resources developed by Columbia University. Browse through courses listed from architecture to science and take advantage of their learning tools.
6. Harvard Medical School http://mycourses.med.harvard.edu/public/: Browse through hundreds of online resources offered by this open courseware initiative. You’ll discover everything from medical student handbooks to a number of resources under the “Virtual Patient” category.
7. London School of Economics and Political Science http://www2.lse.ac.uk/PublicEvents/eventsTranscripts.aspx: Listen to podcasts and watch videos of past events at LSE.
8. MIT http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/: MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is recognized for innovation and discovery in many academic fields of study, and their open courseware project is considered a monumental feat in making all 1800 courses offered at MIT available online. This link takes you to their index of courses, which range from aeronautics and astronautics to writing and humanistic studies.
9. Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page: No list of open couseware projects would be complete without mention of this site. No matter which course you delve into, Project Gutenberg may have materials for you to use. There are, after all, over 27,000 free books available at this site and over 100,000 titles available at their partner, afilliate and resource sites.
10. Yale http://oyc.yale.edu/: “Open Yale” courses provide free and open access to a selection of introductory courses that reflect a liberal arts education. All lectures were recorded in the Yale College classroom and are available in video, audio, and text transcript format. Registration is not required and no course credit is available.