Harvard Presents Free Courses with the Open Learning Initiative

Always good to see anoth­er major uni­ver­si­ty mak­ing a con­tri­bu­tion to the open course move­ment. The Open Learn­ing Ini­tia­tive under­tak­en by the Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty Exten­sion School now offers eight free cours­es. This clus­ter of cours­es – the first Har­vard has put for­ward – cov­ers a nice range of top­ics. They fea­ture some heavy-hit­ting mem­bers of the Har­vard fac­ul­ty. And they’re freely avail­able in audio and video. The full list appears below as well as in our big list of 500 Free Online Cours­es:

• Chi­na: Tra­di­tions and Trans­for­ma­tions (Peter K. Bol, PhD, Charles H. Car­swell Pro­fes­sor of East Asian Lan­guages and Civ­i­liza­tions, and William C. Kir­by, PhD, T. M. Chang Pro­fes­sor of Chi­na Stud­ies)
• Shake­speare After All: The Lat­er Plays (Mar­jorie Gar­ber, PhD, William R. Kenan Jr. Pro­fes­sor of Eng­lish)
• The Hero­ic and the Anti-Hero­ic in Clas­si­cal Greek Civ­i­liza­tion (Gre­go­ry Nagy, PhD, Fran­cis Jones Pro­fes­sor of Clas­si­cal Greek Lit­er­a­ture)
• World War and Soci­ety in the 20th Cen­tu­ry: World War II (Charles S. Maier, PhD, Lev­erett Salton­stall Pro­fes­sor of His­to­ry)
• Bits (Har­ry R. Lewis, PhD, Gor­don McK­ay Pro­fes­sor of Com­put­er Sci­ence)
• Inten­sive Intro­duc­tion to Com­put­er Sci­ence Using C, PHP, and JavaScript (David J. Malan, PhD, Lec­tur­er on Com­put­er Sci­ence)
• Abstract Alge­bra (Bene­dict Gross, PhD, George Vas­mer Lev­erett Pro­fes­sor of Math­e­mat­ics)
• Sets, Count­ing, and Prob­a­bil­i­ty (Paul G. Bam­berg, DPhil, Senior Lec­tur­er on Math­e­mat­ics)

Relat­ed Con­tent:

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