Stanford University Offers Free Entrepreneurial Courses Online

09/10/2012

For those of us with a constant thirst for education, Stanford University is currently offering online courses this Fall – for free. According to the latest Stanford Report, 16 total courses will be available, with exciting subjects like Advanced Entrepreneurship, A Crash Course on Creativity, Human-Computer Interaction and more.

These courses will be hosted on two new learning platforms, designed and developed by Stanford engineers and faculty members. To make education more fun and interactive, they’ll feature exciting tools such as video lectures, discussion forums, peer assessments and team projects, just to name a few.

Here’s the current list of available courses:

Introduction to Mathematical Thinking – starts 9/17

Probabilistic Graphical Models – starts 9/24

Human-Computer Interaction – starts 9/24

Introduction to Logic – starts 9/24

Organizational Analysis – starts 9/24

Writing in the Sciences – starts 9/24

Algorithms: Design and Analysis, Part 2 – starts this October

Technology Entrepreneurship – starts this Fall

A Crash Course on Creativity – starts this Fall

Designing a New Learning Environment – starts this Fall

Finance – starts this Fall

Startup Boards: Advanced Entrepreneurship –starts this Fall

Solar Cells, Fuel Cells and Batteries – starts 10/8

An Introduction to Computer Networks – starts 10/8

For a full list of available courses as well as future updates on their Fall and Winter schedule, visit Stanford’s online course portal.

By Sean Rosensteel

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