150 MOOCS Getting Started in September: Enroll in One Today

Sum­mer is over. Kids are head­ing back to col­lege. Luck­i­ly, so can you. If you peruse our list, MOOCs from Great Uni­ver­si­ties, you’ll find 150 free MOOCs get­ting start­ed this month. Above, see the trail­er for Mod­ern & Con­tem­po­rary Amer­i­can Poet­ry, a course taught by Al Fil­reis, an inno­v­a­tive poet­ry pro­fes­sor from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia. The course starts today. Oth­er tempt­ing cours­es on the Sep­tem­ber list include:

• Chi­na: Inva­sions, Rebel­lions, and the End of Impe­r­i­al Chi­na — Har­vard on edX — Sep­tem­ber 4 (4 weeks)
• The Sci­ence of Hap­pi­ness — Berke­ley on edX — Sep­tem­ber 9 (10 weeks)
• Scal­ing Up Your Ven­ture With­out Screw­ing Up — Stan­ford Busi­ness School on Novoed — Sep­tem­ber 15 (6 weeks)
• Lau­ra Ingalls Wilder: Explor­ing Her Work & Writ­ing Life — Mis­souri State on Can­vas — Sep­tem­ber 22 (8 weeks)
• Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Ideas: An Intro­duc­tion to Legal and Polit­i­cal Phi­los­o­phy — UPenn on Cours­era  — Sep­tem­ber 21 (6 weeks)
• Shake­speare and his World — Uni­ver­si­ty of War­wick on Future­Learn — Sep­tem­ber 29 (10 weeks)

But that’s just what speaks to me. Vis­it our list and see what cours­es speak to you.

Note: Some of the MOOC providers are now start­ing to charge for cer­tifi­cates. The cours­es are still free, but some­times you have to pay for the cer­tifi­cate of completion/statement of accom­plish­ment. If you care about the piece of paper, please take that into con­sid­er­a­tion.