The new MIT initiative, MITx, rolls out its first online course Circuits & Electronics on March 5th. After Completion of the course you will receive a certificate of accomplishment from MITx. This is  first undergraduate course for Electrical & Electronics or Computer Science departments. Topics covered: Resistive elements and networks, dependent, independent sources, MOS transistors, amplifiers, An ...

UDACITY is a recently established portal offering university-level courses for free. Two courses are currently available CS101 Building a Search Engine and CS373 Programming a Robotic Car. Both courses begin on February 20, 2012 and each is broken into 6 week-long units with a seventh wrap-up week that also includes a final exam. CS101 is taught by Professor David Evans and Professor Sebastian Thrun. CS373 ...

Think Stanford University is too expensive for you? Think again. Stanford offers a series of free online courses on topics ranging from Natural Language Processing to Anatomy. These courses will be starting in January or February 2012. Short length video lectures are recorded and recordings will be available, allowing students to watch the lectures at their leisure. Text transcriptions may be available for ...