Two platforms have set up from the most prestigious American universities as Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology + Stanford and Princeton to deliver online courses completely free! Can you believe it? Please read below for more information
About edX: http://www.edxonline.org/
EdX is a joint partnership between The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University to offer online learning to millions of people around the world. EdX will offer Harvard and MIT classes online for free. Through this partnership, the institutions aim to extend their collective reach to build a global community of online learners and to improve education for everyone.
About Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/
We are a social entrepreneurship company that partners with the top universities in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free. We envision a future where the top universities are educating not only thousands of students, but millions. Our technology enables the best professors to teach tens or hundreds of thousands of students.
Through this, we hope to give everyone access to the world-class education that has so far been available only to a select few. We want to empower people with education that will improve their lives, the lives of their families, and the communities they live in.
useful links:
http://www.edxonline.org
https://www.coursera.org
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18191589