Stanford offers free online classes

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"For the first time in its history, Stanford is offering some of its most popular engineering classes free of charge to students and educators around the world. Stanford Engineering Everywhere (SEE) expands the Stanford experience to students and educators online. A computer and an Internet connection is all you need. View lecture videos, access reading lists and other course handouts, take quizzes and tests, and communicate with other SEE students, all at your convenience.

This fall, SEE launches its programming by offering one of Stanford’s most popular sequences: the three-course Introduction to Computer Science taken by the majority of Stanford’s undergraduates and seven more advanced courses in artificial intelligence and electrical engineering."

http://see.stanford.edu/default.aspx


Introduction to Computer Science
Programming Methodology CS106A
Programming Abstractions CS106B
Programming Paradigms CS107


Artificial Intelligence
Introduction to Robotics CS223A
Natural Language Processing CS224N
Machine Learning CS229


Linear Systems and Optimization
The Fourier Transform and its Applications EE261
Introduction to Linear Dynamical Systems EE263
Convex Optimization I EE364A
Convex Optimization II EE364B

Yeah, a bunch of places claim to be doing stuff like that, notably MIT and Yale. Too bad none of them actually are. UC Berkeley has some decent stuff (lecture podcasts), but I've yet to find any of the OCW or similar programs that actually has a good collection of classes with enough resources for it to be useful. For most of their OCW classes, MIT publishes the syllabus and maybe some sketchy lecture notes. The ones that have recordings of class lecture are the best, but that still is quite lacking and not quite the "Yale/MIT/nowStanford education for everyone!" that these things are always touted as.

That said, this one looks a bit more legit than the grandstanding from MIT. Not too interested in the specific classes they offer, so probably won't find out if it really is any better.

This looks pretty cool. Keny and I are gonna check it out.