SEE (Stanford Engineering Everywhere) is offering free online courses for anyone, everywhere. The program is being funded by Sequoia Capital Silicon Valley venture capital firm that also helped launch Google, Nvidia, Yahoo, and others.
As of right now there are 10 engineering courses and the plan is to expand the School of Engineering courses to include bioengineering, energy/ environments, and nanotechnology.
These free courses are also being released through a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license which means you are free to share this information with others as long as you are not profiting from it.
You do not have to register to use the online courses which are identical to those taken by Stanford Students. However, the course is self directed with no access to professors. There is however and online community that will allow users to share content and information with other SEE users. The curriculum includes video lectures that can be viewed via Youtube and Itunes.
For more information visit http://see.stanford.edu/
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