1,700 Free Online Courses from Top Universities @ Open Culture

Take online courses from the world’s top universities for free. Below, you will find 1,700 free online courses from universities like Yale, MIT, Harvard, Oxford and more.

Note: This page includes a lot of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). If you want to enroll in a free version of a MOOC, please select the “Full Course, No Certificate” (edX) or “Audit” (Coursera) option. If you take the course for a certificate/credential, you’ll be charged a fee, and we will receive a commission from our affiliate partners–Coursera, FutureLearn and edX.

Examples (I had to cut off half way due to too many chars)

Humanities & Social Sciences Archaeology Courses

Archaeology: from Dig to Lab and Beyond — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University of Reading
Hannibal — Free Online Course — Patrick Hunt, Stanford
Pyramids of Giza: Ancient Egyptian Art and Archaeology — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Peter Der Manuelian, Harvard
Roman Art and Archaeology — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — David Soren, University of Arizona
The Changing Landscape of Ancient Rome. Archaeology and History of the Palatine Hill — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Sapienza University of Rome
Wonders of Ancient Egypt — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — David P. Silverman, University of Pennsylvania

Architecture Courses

Architecture Studio: Building in Landscapes — Free Online Course — Jan Wampler, MIT
History of Architecture - Free Online Course — Jacqueline Gargus, Ohio State
Making Architecture — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — IE School of Architecture and Design
Roman Architecture — Free Online Course - Diana E. E. Kleiner, Yale
Sustainability in Architecture: An Interdisciplinary Introduction — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University Polytechnic Valencia
The Architectural Imagination — Free Online Video — Multiple instructors, Harvard
Theory of City Form — Free Online Course — Julian Beinart, MIT

Art & Art History Courses

Aesthetics & the Philosophy of Art - Free Online Video — James Grant, Oxford University
Art Through Time: A Global View — Free Online Video — Annenberg Media
Digital Photography — Free Online Course —  Dan Armendariz, Harvard
Effective Fundraising and Leadership in Arts and Culture — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University of Leeds
European Paintings: From Leonardo to Rembrandt to Goya — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Fashion as Design — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Museum of Modern Art
Foundations of American Cyber-Culture — Free Online Video — UC Berkeley
In the Studio: Postwar Abstract Painting — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Museum of Modern Art
Intentional Public Disruptions: Art, Responsibility, and Pedagogy — Free Online Video —  Stephen Carpenter II and Lawrence Susskind, MIT
Introduction to Digital Photography — Free Online Course — Marc Levoy, Stanford/Google
Introduction to Visual Design - Free Online Course — Carnegie Mellon
Introduction to Visual Thinking — Free Online Video — John McNamara, UC Berkeley
Islamic Calligraphy: An Introduction to the Art of Handwriting — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University of Malaya 
Italian Renaissance — Free Online Course — Dr. Vida Hull, East Tennessee State University
Italic Calligraphy & Handwriting — Free Online Course — Lloyd Reynolds, Reed College
Let This Be a Lesson: Heroes, Heroines & Narrative in Paintings at Yale — Free Online Video — John Walsh, Yale
Modern Art & Ideas — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Museum of Modern Art
Photography Lectures from the School of Visual Arts (SVA) — Free Online Lectures
Seeing Through Photographs — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) - Museum of Modern Art
Sexing the Canvas: Art and Gender — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University of Melbourne
SmARThistory Video Lectures — Free Online Video/Audio — Beth Harris, MoMA & Steven Zucker, Pratt Institute
Teaching Critical Thinking through Art with the National Gallery of Art — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) 
The Elements of Drawing — Free Online Course — Stephen Farthing, Oxford University
What Is Contemporary Art? — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Museum of Modern Art
Words Spun Out of Images: Visual and Literary Culture in Nineteenth Century Japan — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — The University of Tokyo