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usonian

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Mon Jun 22, 2026, 10:57 PM Monday

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

No guarantee on the link quality.
These are open, not clandestine.


https://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses

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.


https://www.openculture.com/free_textbooks

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.

SEE ALSO
https://openstax.org/higher-education
Engaging resources for today's college classrooms

Trusted by instructors at nearly all U.S. colleges and universities, OpenStax provides course-ready, peer-reviewed resources and affordable technology for higher education.

ALSO K-12 (curriculum) at the OpenStax home page
https://openstax.org/

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