<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/14bb4eb2-132d-4be1-8866-824aee37e7a3/87601C67-32EB-4021-A81D-5F7DF972F178/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.usnews.com/blogs/professors-guide/2009/6/10/6-tips-for-taking-college-courses-free-of-charge.html" href="http://www.usnews.com/blogs/professors-guide/2009/6/10/6-tips-for-taking-college-courses-free-of-charge.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.usnews.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.usnews.com/blogs/professors-guide/2009/6/10/6-tips-for-taking-college-courses-free-of-charge.html"><H1>6 Tips for Taking College Courses Free of Charge</H1> <DIV class="blogCredit"> June 10, 2009 03:00 PM ET | <A href="http://www.usnews.com/Topics/tag/Author/j/jacobs_lynn_f/index.html"> Lynn F. Jacobs</A>, <A href="http://www.usnews.com/Topics/tag/Author/h/hyman_jeremy_s/index.html"> Jeremy S. Hyman</A> | <A href="http://www.usnews.com/blogs/professors-guide/2009/6/10/6-tips-for-taking-college-courses-free-of-charge.html">Permanent Link</A> | <A target="_blank" href="http://www.usnews.com/blogs/professors-guide/2009/06/10/6-tips-for-taking-college-courses-free-of-charge_print.htm" class="print">Print</A> </DIV> <DIV class="body"> <P>Suppose we told you that you could take any of 8,000 college courses at the very best universities, with professors handpicked for their good teaching, at the time and place of your choice—free! Well, thanks to the generosity of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-and the work of the OpenCourseWare Consortium of universities worldwide-you can get the same courses others are paying $5,000 for-in the comfort of your living room. Here are six ways to do this:</p> <A name="read_more"></A> <P>1. <STRONG>Find the sites</STRONG>. Begin by searching the master list of all courses provided by the <A href="http://www.ocwconsortium.org/use/use-dynamic.html" target="_new">OpenCourseWare Consortium</A>, or else surf on over to one of the sites of the major participating universities:</p> <UL> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://ocw.mit.edu" target="_new">MIT </A></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://oyc.yale.edu" target="_new">Yale</A></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://ocw.nd.edu" target="_new">Notre Dame</A></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://oli.web.cmu.edu" target="_new">Carnegie Mellon</A></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://webcast.berkeley.edu" target="_new">University of California--Berkeley</A></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://ocw.uci.edu" target="_new">University of California--Irvine</A></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://ocw.usu.edu" target="_new">Utah State</A></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://see.stanford.edu" target="_new">Stanford School of Engineering</A></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://itunes.stanford.edu" target="_new">Stanford University</A></LI></UL></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/87601C67-32EB-4021-A81D-5F7DF972F178/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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