Free Online Courses

Coursera.Org - Courses from 16 Universities

A group of World's top universities are cooperating to offer online courses for free. The courses are available at coursera,org, The courses are offered from Princeton University, Standford and two other US universities.

In the same note, a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology launched the Khan Academy offerring thousands of video lectures.

In May 2012, another two well known institutions, Harvard and MIT had made the announcement that they will be working together to create edX. The offerings include video lesson segments, embedded quiz, online lab and student paced learning.

The coursera.org had made a tremendous progressed.  The number of registered students are 740,000 from 190 countries. A student that takes a Stanford computer class and business class from Princeton university will be issued with the completion certificates. The certificate will be a proof of skills and motivation and can be used for employee to better their career.

Currently all coursera courses are free. They may start to charge of specific services such as the issues of certificates. Financially, the universities are quite comfortable with supports from many organisation.

Note: Online learning had been practiced by many successful organisations for their corporate development program and staff developments scheme.