1. UMass Boston Open Courseware
Free courses in psychology, biology, political science, history, mathematics and a range of humanities with access to a list of classes, recommended literature. Disadvantage: this resource does not have a video course or presentations based on the results of the lectures.
2. Khan Academy
A huge database of video lessons in more than 20 languages, all courses are divided into separate lessons with the ability to view each video regardless of which course you have chosen. The main emphasis is on video as a way of providing information, there are no reading materials here.
3. MIT Open Courseware
To get into this institute, people from all over the world spend a lot of money and effort. However, free courses are also available here. The material is available for download indicating the structure and duration of the course. It is perfect for those who want to try themselves in the field of technical and applied sciences and are not averse to doing intensive self-education.
4. Free-Ed
There is also a division into courses and lessons + the ability to search for pages and groups on Facebook* and on other sites for students who study the same course.
5. Learning Space: The Open University
All materials here are divided by age and thematic groups, lecture material can be downloaded from the website to your computer, and the topics of the courses offered are quite wide.
6. Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative
Here, to access educational materials, you will have to create your own account on the site. It is assumed that the user studies the material independently, there are no tuition fees, but there are no instructors / teachers and exams that they need to take.
7. Tufts Open Courseware
Registration is not required on this site, the lecture material is available in slide format.
8. Stanford iTunes U
A large selection of video content and lectures from Stanford University. For training, you will need an account in the iTunes service and the corresponding software.
Other courses with free viewing/downloading of lecture content and self-education:
*Activity of Meta Platforms Inc. and its social networks Facebook and Instagram is prohibited in the territory of the Russian Federation.
