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September 16, 2014
700 New Free College Courses on Audio & Video
It’s our back to school extravaganza! And we’ve really out done ourselves this year at LearnOutLoud.com. We’ve searched deep and wide, and have unearthed over 700 new free audio & video courses to our LearnOutLoud.com Free Courses Collection. That means we now have over 1200 free courses in our collection! The largest collection of free audio & video courses from colleges and universities on the web! You can check out the full collection right here:
Browse Over 1200 Courses in the LearnOutLoud.com Free Courses Collection
Click through to the categories and subcategories of the courses and you’ll find them sorted by most recently added, so you can see what is new!
In this blog post we’ll guide you through what we’ve added. We’ll start with courses we’ve added that are available from YouTube. For these courses we’ve embedded the YouTube playlists so you can watch lectures right through our site or click over to YouTube. In all we’ve added over 250 full courses on YouTube from various colleges and universities. We’ll start out listing some of the colleges that have a lot of course offerings which we’ve added:
Biola University (23 Courses)
Cal State Dominguez Hills (37 Courses)
Crash Courses (7 Courses)
Indian Institutes of Technology (10 Courses)
MIT OpenCourseWare (65 Courses)
UC Irvine (30 Courses)
University of Missouri-Kansas City (13 Courses)
Virtual University of Pakistan (28 Courses)
And to get you started with some courses, we’ll highlight some of the most interesting courses being offered through YouTube that we’ve added to our site. Here are some great courses you might want to check out:
The Age of Sustainable Development by Jeffrey Sachs at Columbia University
Biodiversity and the Meaning of Human Existence by E.O. Wilson at Duke University
Dynamics of the Spiritual Exercises by Howard Gray
Inside Creative Writing by Robert Olen Butler at Florida State University
Positive Psychology by Tal Ben-Shahar at Harvard University
The Rise and Future of the Food Movement by Michael Pollan at UC Berkeley
Pakistan Studies by Arshad S. Karim at Virtual University of Pakistan
Physics 255: Einstein’s General Relativity and Gravitation by Herbert W. Hamber at UC Irvine
World Economic History Before the Industrial Revolution by Gregory Clark at UC Davis
Cars: Past, Present, and Future by Jon Summers at Stanford University
Ancient Israel by Daniel Fleming at New York University
The Early Universe by Alan Guth at MIT
The Heroic Quest by Joseph Hughes at Missouri State University
Indian Philosophy by Satya Sundar Sethy at Indian Institutes of Technology
Introduction to Music by Mary Dave Blackman at East Tennessee State University
Fundamentals of Speech by Bill Deluca at Cal State Dominguez Hills
Enjoy these free courses available through YouTube!
Along with course from YouTube, we’ve also scoured iTunes U for some of their best courses and have come up with over 300 iTunes U Courses that are available on audio and video. These come from a wide range of educational institutions from prestigious universities to community colleges to seminaries to technical schools. Enjoy these free offerings from iTunes U. We’ll start by listing the colleges that have the most courses:
Arizona State University (10 Courses)
Columbia University (8 Courses)
Concordia Seminary (11 Courses)
Covenant Theological Seminary (18 Courses)
Dallas Theological Seminary (25 Courses)
East Tennessee State University (17 Courses)
Front Range Community College (8 Courses)
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (10 Courses)
Harrisburg Area Community College (22 Courses)
Johns Hopkins University (7 Courses)
La Trobe University (29 Courses)
Liberty University (15 Courses)
Missouri State University (31 Courses)
New Jersey Institute of Technology (8 Courses)
Ohio State University (8 Courses)
Reformed Theological Seminary (30 Courses)
Seattle Pacific University (12 Courses)
Stanford University (60+ Courses and Talks)
UC Davis (22 Courses)
University of Michigan (9 Courses)
University of New Orleans (12 Courses)
Utah Valley University (9 Courses)
And now for some highlights of the free courses we’ve added from iTunes U. Here are some of the outstanding courses you can take on audio & video:
Introduction to Human Anatomy and Physiology by Michael J. Shively at Utah Valley University
The Kennedy Half Century from University of Virginia
Story of Freedom in America by J. Rufus Fears at University of Oklahoma
History of Modern Philosophy by Clarence Mark Phillips at University of New Orleans
Shakespeare’s Principal Plays by Ralph Williams at University of Michigan
Mind, Self, and Language by Amy Fountain at University of Arizona
HIST 443: The United States Since 1945 by Paul Iwancio at University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Jerusalem: The Holy City by Robert R. Cargill at UCLA
Overcoming Public Speaking Anxiety by Margaret Swisher at UC Davis
How to Think Like a Psychologist by Kelly McGonigal at Stanford University
C.S. Lewis by Knox Chamblin at Reformed Theological Seminary
Fundamentals of Nutrition by Toni Burkhalter at Parkland College
Life in the Universe by Richard Pogge at Ohio State University
Investment Philosophies by Aswath Damodaran at New York University
Classical Mythology by Joseph Hughes at Missouri State University
The Roman World by Rhiannon Evans at La Trobe University
The History of Public Health by Graham Mooney at Johns Hopkins University
Western Movies: Myth, Ideology, and Genre by Richard Slotkin
American Capitalism: A History by Louis Hyman at Cornell University
Blood and Oil: Energy, the Middle East and War by Alan Richards at UC Santa Cruz
Exploring The Hobbit by Corey Olsen
Faith, Social Justice, and Public Life by Jim Wallis
The Hebrew Scriptures in Judaism and Christianity by Shaye J.D. Cohen at Harvard University
Introduction to Planetary Astronomy by Robert Wagner
20th Century World History by Anthony Heideman
So many great free courses to choose from. But we’re not done yet!
We’ve also added courses to our collection from two great other sources. Annenberg Learner offers multimedia resources for teaching and learning, and in their video series they have 50 outstanding courses. These video courses are available on streaming video through their pop up player on their site. Here are all the Annenberg Learner courses we’ve added:
And here are some of their video courses that may interest you:
Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish
Invitation to World Literature
The World of Abnormal Psychology
The next great collection of knowledge that we’ve added comes from Oxford University. Oxford offers 100s of podcasts and we’ve picked out over 100 podcasts to add to our site. You can play these audio podcasts directly through our podcast player. Not all of them are courses, but they are all a great source of education from our friends over in England.
Over 100 Podcasts from Oxford University
Here are some of the Oxford podcasts that are courses:
A Romp Through Ethics for Complete Beginners by Marianne Talbot
A Romp Through the Philosophy of Mind by Marianne Talbot
Approaching Shakespeare by Emma Smith
General Philosophy by Peter Millican
Hume’s Central Principles by Peter Millican
Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason by Daniel N. Robinson
Philosophy for Beginners by Marianne Talbot
The Elements of Drawing by Stephen Farthing
And we forgot to mention one final source of free courses that we’ve added. The Ayn Rand Institute now has courses available on streaming video (and some on audio download). Note that taking courses on the Ayn Rand Institute website requires registration. Click below to see the ones we’ve added:
Ayn Rand Institute (11 Courses)
Some of the highlights include:
History of Philosophy by Leonard Peikoff
The Fountainhead Course by Keith Lockitch
Ayn Rand, the Radical Thinker by Onkar Ghate, Keith Lockitch, & Yaron Brook
And a mini course by Ayn Rand herself:
Philosophy: Who Needs It by Ayn Rand
Start taking a free course today!