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Iversity – Open Courses

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Add it to the list:

https://www.edx.org/

https://www.coursera.org/

http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

https://www.udacity.com/

https://iversity.org/

Don't forget Saylor: http://www.saylor.org/

EDIT: I should probably point out that I'm not against the idea that there are multiple open universities out there. I think that, overall, it's better for the recognition of the field to have multiple competitors out there offering a wide range of courses and course styles.

I agree, its just that nobody should start thinking that iversity is anything new. It's great that it's out there, but it's nothing revolutionary.

http://www.coursebuffet.com

Will have iversity.org courses added today.

Also http://opencourses.desire2learn.com

There is also https://www.futurelearn.com/, which is a consortium of primarily British universities.

Is anyone maintaining a reasonably exhaustive, searchable index of these resources? If you have a particular subject you want to learn about it can be difficult to get a good picture of what resources are available.

edit: just saw bruceb's link to http://www.coursebuffet.com . thanks.

There's also https://www.class-central.com/ Iversity courses already included there.

PS: I am not affiliated in any manner.

Ya know, Coursera clones are not bad. I like Coursera's muddled nature, but I will accept organized online courses as well.

I’ve read a paper recently, stating that you can learn better from muddlded lerning material because it encourages you to build connections between concepts on your own. This works only, though, if you have already some prior knowledge about the topic.

And one more: http://coursetalk.org/ (reviews and ratings for many lectures)

Ah, very nice. It's a European competitor to Coursera based in Berlin.

I'm not sure why the "European" matters; its not like Coursera or EdX has geographical limits in where people can take classes or where classes are offered from.

Looks like they are offering classes in languages other than English. Coursera could too, but probably won't.

(Can't edit so replying to myself): My mistake, Coursera does have courses in other languages from European universities.

And in non-English European languages from non-European institutions, as well.

You can even get credit points for some courses: https://iversity.org/pages/faq#anker3

Also check out NovoEd; Stanford's Venture Lab was merged there:

https://novoed.com/

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