Yale Introduces Another Seven Free Online Courses, Bringing Total to 42

It’s April, which means it’s time for a new batch of Open Cours­es from Yale Uni­ver­si­ty. The lat­est release adds anoth­er six cours­es to the mix, bring­ing Yale’s total to 42. We have list­ed the new addi­tions below, and also added them to our ever-grow­ing list of Free Online Cours­es. As always, Yale gives you access to their cours­es in mul­ti­ple for­mats. You can gen­er­al­ly down­load their lec­tures via YouTube, iTunes or Yale’s Open Course web site.

• African Amer­i­can His­to­ry: From Eman­ci­pa­tion to the Present — Web Site — Jonathan Hol­loway
  
• Finan­cial Mar­kets 2011 — YouTube — Robert Shiller
• Fresh­man Organ­ic Chem­istry II — YouTube — iTunes — Web Site — J. Michael McBride
• Hem­ing­way, Fitzger­ald, Faulkn­er — YouTube — Wai Chee Dimock
• Phi­los­o­phy and the Sci­ence of Human Nature — YouTube — iTunes Audio — Web Site — Tamar Gendler
• The Atmos­phere, the Ocean, and Envi­ron­men­tal Change — YouTube — iTunes — Web Site — Ronald B. Smith
• The Ear­ly Mid­dle Ages, 284‑1000 — YouTube — iTunes — Web Site — Paul H. Freed­man

Note: Ear­li­er this week, my local NPR sta­tion fea­tured a big con­ver­sa­tion about Dis­rup­tive Inno­va­tion in High­er Edu­ca­tion. Guests includ­ed Salman Khan (Khan Acad­e­my), Sebas­t­ian Thrun (Udac­i­ty), Anant Agar­w­al (MITx) and Ben Nel­son (The Min­er­va Project). You can lis­ten to their wide-rang­ing con­ver­sa­tion here.