The Free Degree

November 28, 2006

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Wendy Boswell at Lifehacker best summarized the fact that a free education is easier than ever thanks to the internet. She compiled a terrific list of free online college courses, including many from Ivy League institutions.

I went ahead and filtered the class pool to pinpoint the best courses for a pseuedo college degree in communications and technology (perfect for those in PR - not to mention bloggers and podcasters). The free degree includes lectures and lessons from Berkeley, MIT and Princeton. Enjoy.

Communications
English Composition – Writing for an Audience (Annenberg Media)
News Writing (Annenberg Media)
Writing and Experience: Culture Shock! Writing, Editing and Publishing in Cyberspace (MIT)
Communicating in Cyberspace (MIT)
The Creative Spark (MIT)
The Emergence of Advertising in America (Library of Congress)

Technology
History of Information (Berkeley)
History of Media and Technology (MIT)
Open Source Development and Distribution of Digital Information: Technical, Economic, Social, and Legal Perspectives (Berkeley)
Information Systems: Search Engines: Technology, Society and Business (Berkeley)
HTML Basics (University of Washington)

Electives
Social Psychology (Berkeley)
Consumer Culture (MIT)
Economics U$A (Annenberg Media)
Inside the Global Economy (Annenberg Media)
Introduction to Statistics (Carnegie Mellon)

Special Lecture Series:
Beyond Freakonomics: New Musings on the Economics of Everyday Life (Princeton)
The Future of the Web (Princeton)
Hard Questions About Tomorrow’s World (Princeton)
Broadbanding America: What, Why, and How (Princeton)
The Creative Commons (Princeton)
Graduate School of Journalism Presents: Distinguished guests discuss their role in global affairs and the media (Berkeley)

Other Links:
The Personal MBA (Josh Kaufman)
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3 Responses to “The Free Degree”

  1. Ed Lee on November 29th, 2006 8:15 am

    hey todd - great list of resources! here’s an e-dditional e-book (do you see what i did there?) called “when you can’t earn an mba”.

    http://blog.lifebeyondcode.com/blog/_archives/2006/3/2/1792993.html

    Ed

  2. Kami Huyse on November 29th, 2006 11:38 am

    Great resource, now if you could only help me find the time to do all of this. ha-ha

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