如今，全球許多學生無法負擔得起傳統學院和大學的高昂學費，導致許多人都在尋找替代方法，目前有近300萬名學生報讀了完全線上學位課程，並且600萬學生至少學習了一門線上課程作為其學位課程的一部分，似乎線上教育和免費線上課程顯然已成為最受歡迎的高等教育選擇之一。網路學習的評價不斷提高，也推動了線上學習的發展。
哪些大學提供免費的線上課程？在本文中，我們試圖從世界領先大學，史丹佛大學、耶魯大學、麻省理工學院、哈佛大學、柏克萊大學、牛津大學等收集一些免費的線上課程。您可以將這些聲音檔案和影片課程（通常是從iTunes，YouTube或大學網站上）直接下載到電腦或可以播放mp3的手機或播放器上。
1. 設計課程
- Cars: Past, Present & Future – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Video– Michael Shanks, Stanford
- Everything I Know – Free Online Video – Buckminster Fuller
2. 建築課程
世界頂尖建築學校提供的免費線上教育
- Architecture Studio: Building in Landscapes (Video) – Free iTunes Video – Course Web Site – Jan Wampler, MIT
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The Production of Space: Art, Architecture and Urbanism in Dialogue at MIT
- Architectural Construction and Computation at MIT
- Architectural Design: Intentions at MIT
- Basic Structural Design at MIT
- Theory of City Form offered in audio and video format through MIT OpenCourseWare.
- Dialogue in Art, Architecture, and Urbanism at MIT
- Nature and the Built Environment at University of Notre Dame
- History of Architecture – Free iTunes Video – Jacqueline Gargus, Ohio State
- Roman Architecture – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Audio – Free iTunes Video – Free Video & Course Infos – Diana E. E. Kleiner, Yale
- Structures 2 – Free iTunes Video – Peter von Buelow, University of Michigan
- Theory of City Form – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Julian Beinart, MIT
- Experiencing Architecture Studio at MIT
其他相關建築教育資源
- MIT OpenCourseWare: Architecture : Lunched inIn 2003 by MIT as an online platform through which absolutely anyone can access the same course contents as paying students – for free.
- Harvard Online Learning: A collaborative partnership involving Harvard, the Allston-Brighton community, and the City of Boston
- Delft University of Technology OpenCourseWare: Similar to MIT, TU Delft also has an OpenCourseWare platform – albeit less extensive.
- EdX: Architecture: EdX is a non-profit online initiative founded by MIT and Harvard University, offers free interactive classes from some of the world’s top schools.
- Open Online Academy An online platform similar to Edx, offers a more selective range of courses relating specifically to architecture, art, and design.
3. 環境與自然資源課程
- Adaptation to Climate Change – Free iTunes Video – Charlie Kennel, Cambridge
- Americans and the Global Forest – Free iTunes Audio – Lynn Huntsinger, UC Berkeley
- Australian Environmental History – Free iTunes Audio – Richard Broome & Katie Holmes, La Trobe University-Australia
- Blue Planet: Introduction to Oceanography – Free Online Video – Edwin Schauble, UCLA
- Climate Change: Law and Policy – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Audio – Free iTunes Video – Cymie Payne, Daniel Farber, UC Berkeley
- Education for Sustainable Living: Environment – Free Online Video – Multiple profs, UCLA
- Energy Regulations and the Environment – Free Online Video – Steven Weissman, UC Berkeley
- Environmental Economics – Free iTunes Audio – David Zilberman, UC Berkeley
- Environmental Law and Policy – Free Online Video – Bob Infelise, UC Berkeley, UC Berkeley
- Environmental Politics and Law – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Free iTunes Audio – Free Video & Course Materials – John P. Wargo, Yale
- Food and the Environment – Free iTunes Audio – Free Online Audio– Nathan Sayre, UC Berkeley
- Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast – Free Online Videos – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Video & Course Info – David Archer, University of Chicago – David Archer, University of Chicago
- How Climate Works – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Multiple Profs, Princeton
- International Environmental Law – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Free iTunes Audio – Web – Cymie Payne, UC Berkeley
- Intro Environmental Science – Free iTunes iOS Course – Brian Lower, Ohio State
- Introduction to Earthquakes, Their Causes and Effects – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Web – Richard Allen, UC Berkeley
- Introduction to Environmental Economics and Policy – Free iTunes Audio – Free Online Video – Web – Peter Berck, UC Berkeley
- Introduction to Literature and the Environment – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Ken Hiltner, Princeton
- Introduction to Permaculture – Free Online Course Video – Will Hooker – North Carolina State
- Microeconomic Theory with Application to Natural Resources – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Calanit Kamala, UC Berkeley
- Mitigating Agriculture’s Impact – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Video – Gordon Geballe, Yale
- Radar – Free iTunes Video – Kevin Kloesel, University of Oklahoma
- Renewable Energy & Alternative Fuels (Law & Policy) – Free Online Video – UC Berkeley
- Sustainable Living – Free Online Video – Multiple profs, UCLA
- The Atmosphere, the Ocean, and Environmental Change – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Audio – Free Online Video & Course Info – Ronald B. Smith, Yale
- Wildlife Ecology – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Video – Web – William Bean, UC Berkeley
- Woods Energy Seminar – Free iTunes Audio – Multiple Professors, Stanford
4. 藝術及藝術史線上課程
- Aesthetics & the Philosophy of Art – Free iTunes Audio – Free Online Video – James Grant, Oxford University
- Art Through Time: A Global View – Free Online Video – Annenberg Media
- Exposing Digital Photography – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Video & Course Materials – Dan Armendariz, Harvard
- Foundations of American Cyber-Culture – Free Online Video – UC Berkeley
- Introduction to Visual Studies – Free iTunes iOS App – Anna Divinsky, Penn State
- Introduction to Visual Thinking – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – John McNamara, UC Berkeley
- Let This Be a Lesson: Heroes, Heroines & Narrative in Paintings at Yale – Free Online Video – John Walsh, Yale
- Lighting Essentials – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Video – Simon McIntyre, The University of New South Wales
- Photography – Free Online Video – Free iTunes App – Jonathan Worth & Matt Johnston at Coventry University
- SmARThistory Video Lectures – Free Online Video/Audio – Beth Harris, MoMA & Steven Zucker, Pratt Institute
- The Elements of Drawing – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Video –Stephen Farthing, Oxford University
5. 音樂及表演藝術線上課程
- Basic Concepts of Music Theory – Free iTunes Video – Jamie Henke, U. of Wisconsin
- Dave Conservatoire (Music Theory Lessons) – Free Online Video – David Rees, Royal College of Music, London
- Free Music Courses (Multiple Offerings) – Free Online Video – Berklee College of Music
- Introduction to Theatre and Drama Arts – Free Online Video – Missouri State, Robert Bradley
- Introduction to World Music – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Syllabus – Missouri State, John Prescott
- Jazz and Culture – Free iTunes Audio – Andrew Barnes, Arizona State
- Listening to Music – Free Online Video – Craig Wright, Yale
- Politics in Music – Free iTunes Audio – Free Online Audio – Courtney Brown, Emory Craig Wright, Yale
- The Ethics of Jazz (Lecture Series) – Free Online Video – Herbie Hancock, Harvard
- The Langauge of Music – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Video – Amy Muchnick, Missouri State
- The Unanswered Question: 6 Lectures on Music – Free Online Video – Leonard Bernstein, Harvard
6. 工程課程 (機械、機電、土木類)
- Advanced Analog Integrated Circuits – Free Online Video – Professor Simone Gambini, UC Berkeley
- Advanced Visualization – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video –Bernd Hamann, UC Davis
- Atomistic Computer Modeling of Materials – Free Online Video –Free iTunes Video – Free Video & Course Info – Gerbrand Ceder & Nicola Marzari, MIT
- Basic Electronics – Free Online Video – Free Video Download – Prof T.S. Natarajan, IIT Madras
- Chemical Engineering: Process Dynamics and Controls – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Video – Course Info – Peter Woolf, University of Michigan
- Civil and Environmental Engineering – Free iTunes Audio – Marios Agathoklis Panagiotou, UC Berkeley
- Control Systems Engineering – Free Online Video – Benjamin Drew, UWE Bristol
- Convex Optimization I – Free Course in Multiple Formats – Stephen Boyd, Stanford
- Convex Optimization 2 – Free Course in Multiple Formats – Stephen Boyd, Stanford
- Digital Signal Processing – Free Online Video – Prof. E. Ambikairajah
- Direct Solar/Thermal to Electrical Energy Conversion Technologies – Free iTunes Audio – Free Online Video & Course Info – Gang Chen, MIT
- Dynamics of Machines – Free Online Video – Free Video Download – Amitabha Ghosh, IIT
- Dynamics and Control I – Free iTunes Video – Multiple staff, MIT
- Electrical – Digital Signal Processing – Free Online Video – Free Video Download – S.C Dutta Roy, IIT
- Electro Magnetic Fields – Free Online Video – Harishankar Ramachandran, III
- Electronics & Communication Engineering – Signals and Systems – Free Online Video – Free Video Download – K.S. Venktesh, IIT Kanpur
- Electronic Feedback Systems – Free Online Video – Free Video & Course Info – Prof. James Roberge, MIT
- Electronic Techniques for Engineering – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Video – Web – Vivek Subramanian, UC Berkeley
- Electronics – High Speed Devices & Circuit – Free Online Video –Free Video Download – K. N. Bhat, IIT Madras
- Elementary Fluid Mechanics – Free iTunes Audio – Mark Stacey, UC Berkeley
- Engineering Dynamics – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Free Video & Course Info – Kim Vandiver and David Gossard, MIT
- Engineering Ethics – Free Online Audio – Taft Broome, MIT
- Engineering Statics – Free Web Course – Carnegie Mellon
- Environmental Air Pollution – Free Online Video – Free Video Download – Mukesh Sharma, IIT
- Fluid Mechanics – Free Online Video – Free Video Download – T.I.Eldho, IIT
- Fundamentals of Photovoltaics – Free iTunes Video – Tonio Buonassisi, MIT
- Groundwater Hydrology – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Course Materials – Charles Harvey – MIT
- Image Processing – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Owen Carmichael, UC Davis
- Information and Entropy – Free Online Video & Course Materials – Paul Penfield and Seth Lloyd, MIT
- Information Theory and Coding – Free Online Video – Free Video Download – S.N.Merchant, IIT Bombay
- Integrated Circuit Devices – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – UC Berkeley
- Introduction to Chemical Engineering – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Channing Robertson, Stanford
- Introduction to Digital Integrated Circuits – Free iTunes Audio – Elad Alon, UC Berkeley
- Introduction to Digital Integrated Circuits – Free Online Video – Professor Jan M. Rabaey, UC Berkeley
- Introduction to Engineering – Free iTunes Video – Tod Laursen, Duke
- Introduction to Engineering – Free iTunes Video – Multiple presenters, Duke University
- Introduction to Lean Six Sigma Methods – Free Online Video & Course Info – Free iTunes Video – Multiple staff, MIT
- Introduction to Linear Dynamical Systems – Free Course in Multiple formats – Stephen Boyd, Stanford
- Introduction to Microelectronic Circuits – Free iTunes Video – Chang-Hasnain, UC Berkeley
- Introduction to Modeling and Simulation – Free Online Video & Course Info – Markus Buehler and Jeffrey Grossman, MIT
- Linear Integrated Circuits – Free Online Video – Professor Clark Tu-Cuong Nguyen, UC Berkeley
- Mechanical Engineering: Introduction to MEMS Design – Free iTunes Audio – Free iTunes Video – UC Berkeley
- Microelectronic Devices and Circuits – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Sayeef Salahuddin, UC Berkeley
- Microcontroller Design – Free Online Video – Beuce Land, Cornell
- Microcontroller and System-on-Chip Construction Using Verilog and Altera FPGA – Free Online Video – Beuce Land, Cornell
- Nano-to-Macro Transport Processes – Free iTunes Audio – Free Online Video & Course Info – Gang Chen, MIT
- Nanomanufacturing – Free iTunes Video – Free iTunes Audio –Course Info – John Hart, U Michigan
- Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis – Free Online Video – Klaus-Jürgen Bathe, MIT
- Nuclear Engineering – Free Online Audio – Eric Norman, UC Berkeley
- Nuclear Engineering 101 Nuclear Reactions and Radiation – Free Online Audio – Lee A. Bernstein, UC Berkeley
- Optimization Models in Engineering – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Laurent El Ghaoui, UC Berkeley
- Pre-Engineering: Intro to Microcontrollers – Free iTunes iOS Course – Steve Dickie, Michigan MI Learning
- The Structure and Properties of Materials – Free Online Video –Free iTunes Video – JW Morris, UC Berkeley
- The Engineering Profession – Free iTunes Video – Course Info – University of Michigan
- The Fourier Transform and its Applications – Free Online Video –Free iTunes Video – Free Course in Multiple Formats – Brad Osgood, Stanford
- Technology Entrepreneurship – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Chuck Eesley, Stanford
- Understanding Lasers and Fiberoptics – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Video – Free Course Info & Free Online Video – Prof. Shaoul Ezekiel, MIT