This is a collection of links to free online learning resources - including Massively Open Online Course (MOOC) providers - that I maintain for a Facebook group I started for older lifelong learners.


MOOC providers

Coursera - https://www.coursera.org/ - started by Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng from Stanford and now includes many universities and courses.

EdX - https://www.edx.org/ - started by MIT and Harvard, headed by Anant Agarwal, and now includes many universities and courses.

Udacity - https://www.udacity.com/ - started by Sebastian Thrun and Mike Sokolsky and offering a range of courses initially specialising in computing but now broadening to include other subjects.

Future Learn - https://www.futurelearn.com/ - private company owned by The Open University in the UK offering courses from universities and institutions from around the world (mainly from the UK initially).

Open2Study - https://www.open2study.com/ - run by Open Universities Australia and offering a variety courses that last four weeks and are usually repeated every five weeks

iVersity - https://iversity.org/ - German MOOC provider with mix of English and German language MOOCs

Complexity Explorer - http://www.complexityexplorer.org/ - complex systems MOOCs from the Sante Fe Institute

Canvas Network - https://www.canvas.net/ - mostly free courses on a platform developed and supported by Instructure, an education technology company


Online courses

MIT OpenCourseWare - http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm - open access to many MIT courses, some with complete video; includes OCW Scholar courses which are designed to be self-contained (http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/ocw-scholar/)

Open Yale Courses - http://oyc.yale.edu/ - access to a few introductory Yale courses

Webcast Berkeley - http://webcast.berkeley.edu/ - access to a variety of Berkeley courses

iTunes University - accessible from the free iTunes application for Windows or Mac computers and also from iOS devices (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch); includes complete courses, lecture series, individual lectures and some course materials from many world universities (see list here - http://www.4icu.org/itunesu/)

Khan Academy - https://www.khanacademy.org/ - started by Salman Khan and offering free education initially focussed on maths and now broadened to include other sciences and some humanities

Code Academy - http://www.codecademy.com/ - teaches computer programming


Other resources

Class Central - http://www.class-central.com/ - a MOOC aggregator providing information on MOOCs from multiple providers.

Open Culture - http://www.openculture.com/ - regularly updated list of free online courses, free certificate courses and other free educational resources including videos and textbooks.

Top Free Classes - http://www.topfreeclasses.com/ and https://www.facebook.com/TopFreeClasses - another site aggregating information on MOOCs from multiple providers; also includes reviews

Slide Rule - http://www.mysliderule.com/ - search for online learning opportunities from lots of different providers (as of early June 2014, they have 17,442 courses listed!)