A Master List of 1,500 Free Courses From Top Universities: 50,000 Hours of Audio/Video Lectures to Enrich Your Mind

For the past 14 years, we’ve been busy rum­mag­ing around the inter­net and adding cours­es to an ever-grow­ing list of Free Online Cours­es, which now fea­tures 1,500 cours­es from top uni­ver­si­ties. Let’s give you the quick overview: The list lets you down­load audio & video lec­tures from schools like Stan­ford, Yale, MIT, Oxford, Har­vard and many oth­er insti­tu­tions. Gen­er­al­ly, the cours­es can be accessed via YouTube, iTunes or uni­ver­si­ty web sites, and you can lis­ten to the lec­tures any­time, any­where, on your com­put­er or smart phone. We haven’t done a pre­cise cal­cu­la­tion, but there’s about 50,000 hours of free audio & video lec­tures here. Enough to keep you busy for a very long time–something that’s use­ful dur­ing these social­ly dis­tant times.

Right now you’ll find 200 free phi­los­o­phy cours­es, 105 free his­to­ry cours­es, 170 free com­put­er sci­ence cours­es, 85 free physics cours­es and 55 Free Lit­er­a­ture Cours­es in the col­lec­tion, and that’s just begin­ning to scratch the sur­face. You can peruse sec­tions cov­er­ing Astron­o­my, Biol­o­gy, Busi­ness, Chem­istry, Eco­nom­ics, Engi­neer­ing, Math, Polit­i­cal Sci­ence, Psy­chol­o­gy and Reli­gion.

Here are some high­lights from the com­plete list of Free Online Cours­es. We’ve added a few unconventional/vintage cours­es in the mix just to keep things inter­est­ing.

• A His­to­ry of Phi­los­o­phy in 81 Video Lec­tures: From Ancient Greece to Mod­ern Times — Free Online Video — Arthur Holmes, Wheaton Col­lege
• A Romp Through Ethics for Com­plete Begin­ners - Var­i­ous For­mats – Mar­i­anne Tal­bot, Oxford Uni­ver­si­ty
• Ancient Greek His­to­ry — Var­i­ous For­mats — Don­ald Kagan, Yale
• Cre­ative Read­ing and Writ­ing by William S. Bur­roughs — Free Online Audio — Naropa Uni­ver­si­ty
• Crit­i­cal Rea­son­ing for Begin­ners — Var­i­ous For­mats – Mar­i­anne Tal­bot, Oxford
• Deep Learn­ing — Free Online Video — Vin­cent Van­houcke, Google
• Edi­ble Edu­ca­tion 101 – Free Online Video – Michael Pol­lan, UC Berke­ley
• Finan­cial Mar­kets — Var­i­ous For­mats — Robert Shiller, Yale
• Grow­ing Up in the Uni­verse – Free Online Video – Richard Dawkins, Oxford
• Har­vard’s Intro­duc­to­ry Com­put­er Sci­ence Course - Free Online Course — David Malan, Har­vard
• Hem­ing­way, Fitzger­ald, Faulkn­er – Var­i­ous For­mats – Wai Chee Dimock, Yale
• Heidegger’s Being & Time – Free Online Audio — Hubert Drey­fus, UC Berke­ley
• How to Lis­ten to Music — Var­i­ous For­mats — Craig Wright, Yale
• Human Behav­ioral Biol­o­gy – Var­i­ous For­mats – Robert Sapol­sky, Stan­ford
• Intro­duc­tion to the Old Tes­ta­ment (Hebrew Bible) – Free Online Video — Chris­tine Hayes, Yale.
• Lec­tures on Dig­i­tal Pho­tog­ra­phy — Free Online Video — Marc Lev­oy, Stanford/Google
• Physics for Future Pres­i­dents – Free Online Video – Richard Muller, UC Berke­ley
• Sci­ence and Cook­ing: From Haute Cui­sine to the Sci­ence of Soft Mat­ter — Var­i­ous For­mats — Team taught, Har­vard
• Speak Ital­ian with Your Mouth Full - Var­i­ous For­mats — MIT, Dr. Pao­la Rebus­co
• The Amer­i­can Nov­el Since 1945 – Var­i­ous For­mats – Amy Hunger­ford, Yale
• The Cen­tral Phi­los­o­phy of Tibet — Free Online Audio – Robert Thur­man, Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty
• The Char­ac­ter of Phys­i­cal Law (1964) - Free Online Video — Richard Feyn­man, Cor­nell
• The Hob­bit – Free iTunes Video – More – Corey Olsen, Wash­ing­ton Col­lege
• The Tem­pest - Free Online Audio — Allen Gins­berg, Naropa
• Wal­ter Kauf­mann Lec­tures on Niet­zsche, Kierkegaard and Sartre — Free Online Audio

The com­plete list of cours­es can be accessed here: 1,700 Free Online Cours­es from Top Uni­ver­si­ties. For more enrich­ing mate­r­i­al, see our oth­er col­lec­tions below.

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1,000 Free Audio Books: Down­load Great Books for Free.

4,000+ Free Movies Online: Great Clas­sics, Indies, Noir, West­erns, Doc­u­men­taries & More.

Learn 45+ Lan­guages Online for Free: Span­ish, Chi­nese, Eng­lish & More.

200 Online Cer­tifi­cate & Micro­cre­den­tial Pro­grams from Lead­ing Uni­ver­si­ties & Com­pa­nies.

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