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usonian

(27,082 posts)
Mon Jun 22, 2026, 10:57 PM 2 hrs ago

1,700 Free Online Courses from Top Universities (From Open Culture) PLUS 200 Free Textbooks (WAIT, even more. See below)

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Take online courses from the world’s top universities for free. Below, you will find 1,700 free online courses from universities like Yale, MIT, Harvard, Oxford and more.

Note: This page includes a lot of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). If you want to enroll in a free version of a MOOC, please select the “Full Course, No Certificate” (edX) or “Audit” (Coursera) option. If you take the course for a certificate/credential, you’ll be charged a fee, and we will receive a commission from our affiliate partners–Coursera, FutureLearn and edX.


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Free text­books (aka open text­books) writ­ten by knowl­edgable schol­ars are a rel­a­tive­ly new phe­nom­e­non. Below, find a meta list of 200 Free Text­books, and check back often for new addi­tions. Also see our online col­lec­tion, 1,700 Free Online Cours­es from Top Uni­ver­si­ties.

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1,700 Free Online Courses from Top Universities (From Open Culture) PLUS 200 Free Textbooks (WAIT, even more. See below) (Original Post) usonian 2 hrs ago OP
It's great! I highly recommend David W. Blight's course on Civil War and Reconstruction. From Yale. mucifer 2 hrs ago #1
Thanks u. You are a purveyor of so much useful information. yellow dahlia 1 hr ago #2
Top Secret: I get almost all my info from Hacker News. usonian 1 hr ago #3
KNR and bookmarking. I had forrgotten about this site. niyad 48 min ago #4

mucifer

(25,757 posts)
1. It's great! I highly recommend David W. Blight's course on Civil War and Reconstruction. From Yale.
Mon Jun 22, 2026, 11:07 PM
2 hrs ago

I took it online years ago and really enjoyed it. Learned a lot:

https://oyc.yale.edu/history/hist-119

?si=QSmC5eqkdETEE9Lo

usonian

(27,082 posts)
3. Top Secret: I get almost all my info from Hacker News.
Mon Jun 22, 2026, 11:41 PM
1 hr ago

And emails from Indivisible and Bernie.
John Ossoff joined the list.

All of the above are welcome.

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