The best free cultural & educational media on the web - This is a link that serves as a starting point listing many of the free programs universities offer.
Many IVY league universities offer their courses online for free on the web. Its a new initiative called Open Courseware. Its meant to allow people with the ambition and interest to go and learn things they have always wanted to learn. Topics range from sociology to law, to engineering, to the pure sciences. Naturally you don't get any exams but you do get a lecture and insight from some of the leading thinkers and researchers in their respective fields.
I have used this a few of times to pick up some things in Electrical Engineering, Math, Physics that I was curious about. This is perfect for anyone who wants to learn something new but doesn't have the time or money for grad school. This serves as a very informal way to pick up something that you are curious in exploring.
Some of the participating Universities are:
MIT
Columbia
Harvard
John Hopkins
Notre Dame
Oxford
Tufts
Standford
Carnegie Mellon
Princeton
Duke
Yale
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