New Free Online Education Options

No matter how much you know, there's always more to learn.  The good news is that learning is getting more and more accessible.
Today Coursera announced partnering with 17 new universities for their online classes.  This brings the total to 33 Universities that are offering free online classes through Coursera.  This list is pretty impressive (see below).  What is even more impressive is the list of courses that they are offering.  They have everything from Modern & Contemporary American Poetry (University of Pennsylvania) to Securing Digital Democracy (University of Michigan) to History of the World Since 1300 (Princeton University) to Human Computer Interaction (Stanford University).

Take a look at the catalog of current courses here.  You might just find something that sparks your interest.

You may also want to read this story on Stanford's approach to online learning.

Below is the list of universities that are offering free online courses through Coursera:

• Berklee College of Music
• Brown University
• California Institute of Technology
• Columbia University
• Duke University
• École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
• Emory University
• Georgia Institute of Technology
• Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Johns Hopkins University
• Mount Sinai School of Medicine
• Ohio State University
• Princeton University
• Rice University
• Stanford University
• The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
• The University of British Columbia
• University of California, Irvine
• University of California, San Francisco
• University of Edinburgh
• University of Florida
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• University of London International Programmes
• University of Maryland, College Park
• University of Melbourne
• University of Michigan
• University of Pennsylvania
• University of Pittsburgh
• University of Toronto
• University of Virginia
• University of Washington
• Vanderbilt University
• Wesleyan University