1,700 free online courses from top universities

momentmaker 133 points 26 comments June 23, 2026
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mparnisari

https://www.openculture.com/free_textbooks - none of the free textbooks that i tried worked? i picked a few from the CompSci category

helterskelter

https://openstax.org/higher-education ^^ Good resource for textbooks

shostack

There are so many things I wish I had time to learn about. I don't need my learning resources, I need a way to jack in and have them uploaded to my brain.

CalChris

The Stanford iTunesU classes have been truncated to a few seconds. So Susanna Braund's Aeneid course (which was brilliant) is gone. Same thing with their Hannibal course. I don't know that they're available elsewhere. Apple dropped iTunesU (2021?) and Stanford didn't have a backup.

wodenokoto

A lot of these are just links to coursera. And quite a few are not from universities (saw a few by PWC)

ai_slop_hater

People don't go to universities for courses

S04dKHzrKT

If anyone responsible for the site's CSS happens to see this, the fixed height in pixels of #header causes the nav bar links to be partially obscured making them more difficult to click. My current window's width is 1600.

mmooss

How are these selected for inclusion? I don't understand the point of this list.

terrycody

I can't even find the CS50 on it...I doubt the whole quality of this list.

AlexeyBrin

Too bad that most Coursera courses are now behind a paywall. First they were free without certification, after a few years they removed the access to quizzes and tests but you could still audit for free. Now, you have to pay.

cadamsdotcom

All this great free learning! We live in a time of incredible abundance. And yet when I look up from my phone at the screens of everyone else on the bus, I am the only one not on Instagram.

aanet

Have the LLMs digested these courses already? If so, How would we evaluate that claim ?

goodboyjojo

i remember finding this site awhile ago. they also have a list of cool podcasts to listen to

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