This list is a very personal selection of opencourseware. I very strongly believe in lifelong learning and free access to teaching and learning material. The following is far from exhaustive, yet I personally estimate that the resources I selected below could easily take at least two or three years to study. Some more opencourseware can easily be located using a specific finder.

Contents

1. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
2. Harvard University Extension School
3. MIT OpenCourseWare
4. French OpenCourseWare
5. More OpenCourseWare

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

• Understanding Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health Care, Spring 2005
• Statistical Reasoning Part I and Part II
• The History of Public Health, Spring 2005 (incl. MP3 Lecture Notes)

Harvard University Extension School

Computer Science

• Computer Science E-1: Understanding Computers and the Internet (available each week as a podcast)

Medical Sciences

• Introduction to Epidemiology

Public Health

• Critical Thinking about Environmental and Public Health Issues
• Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing in Environmental Management
• Psychopharmacology of Drug and Alcohol Abuse

Social Sciences

• Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing in the Social Sciences: Anthropology and Psychology, and Government and History
• Qualitative Research Methods: The Ethnography of Urban Life
• Advanced Analytical Reasoning in the Social Sciences

Statistics

• Introduction to Statistics
• Introduction to Biostatistics

Government

• Quantitative Methods for Political Science (taught by Kevin Quinn)
• Advanced Quantitative Research Methodology (co-taught by Gary King)

MIT OpenCourseWare

Anthropology

• Social Theory and Analysis, Fall 2004

• Seminar in Ethnography and Fieldwork, Fall 2003

  Study Materials: Handy Tips for Taking Reading Notes; Summarizing Literature within Your Paper (1) and (2); Road Map, Examples of Organizing Paragraphs; A Short Bibliography on Qualitative Research Methods.

• Medical Anthropology, Fall 2004
• Law and Society, Spring 2003

Brain and Cognitive Sciences

• Introduction to Psychology, Fall 2002
• Introduction to Neuroscience, Fall 2004
• Laboratory in Cognitive Science, Fall 2002
• Social Psychology, Spring 2002
• Introduction to Neural Networks, Fall 2002
• Cognitive Neuroscience, Spring 2004

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

• User Interface Design and Implementation, Fall 2004

  Lecture Notes: Usability; User-Centered Design; UI Software Architecture; Human Capabilities; Output Models; Conceptual Models and Metaphors; Input Models; Design Principles; Paper Prototyping; Constraints and Layout; Graphic Design; Computer Prototyping; Toolkits; Heuristic Evaluation; User Testing; Experiment Design; Experiment Analysis.

Writing and Humanistic Studies

• Intro to Tech Communication, Fall 2002

  Related Resources: NSF Guide to Grant Proposal Writing; Stephen’s Guide to Logical Fallacies; U. Mich. Proposal Writing Guide by Don Thackery.

• Communicating in Cyberspace, Fall 2003

  Related Resources: MIT Web Design Guidelines; Writing for the Web.

Sloan School of Management

• Introduction to Optimization, Spring 2004
• Applied Statistics, Spring 2003
• Doctoral Seminar in Research Methods I, Fall 2004
• Doctoral Seminar in Research Methods II, Spring 2004
• Data Mining, Spring 2003

Political Science

• Fundamentals of Public Policy, Fall 2002

  Lecture Notes: Why do we need Public Policies; Tools of Government A and B; Rational Policy; Security & Liberty; Equity and Efficiency; Federalist Papers; Legislatures; Legislatures & Bureaucracies; Bureaucracy; What are Public Policies; Executive; Courts; Interest Groups; Media and Public Opinion; Cost-Benefit & Risk Analysis in Public Policy; Evaluation.

• Comparative Health Policy, Fall 2004
• Political Science Scope and Methods, Fall 2003
• Political Science Laboratory, Spring 2004
• Thesis Research Design Seminar, Fall 2004

• Quantitative Research in Political Science and Public Policy, Spring 2004

  Lecture Notes: Introduction; Math Review; Random Variables; Statistical Modelling.

• Quantitative Research Methods: Multivariate, Spring 2004
• Qualitative Research: Design and Methods, Spring 2005
• Foundations of Political Science, Spring 2005
• Game Theory and Political Theory, Fall 2004

French OpenCourseWare

• Cours en ligne (Sciences Po)
• École Ouverte (ENS-LSH)
  • Philosophie des sciences humaines : 2005/2006, 2004/2005
  • Introduction à la philosophie politique
  • SES ENS, site DGESCO-ENS LSH
  • Au fil du travail des sciences sociales : 2005/2006, 2002/2003
  • Conférences ENS / Ecole doctorale de l’Université Lyon 2 - Recherches contemporaines en économie : 2004/2005, 2003/2004
• Diffusion des Savoirs (ENS)
  • Forum de la régulation 2003. L’économie politique des inégalités - Organisé par Robert Boyer
  • L’Europe et le changement - Michel Rocard (homme politique) et Thomas Piketty (ENS)
  • Inégalités, humiliation, ressentiment - Jean-Pierre Dupuy (Polytechnique/Univ. de Stanford)
• Graduate ParisTech (Mines, Polytechnique, etc.)

More OpenCourseWare

• Tufts University OpenCourseWare
• Utah State University (USU) OpenCourseWare
• Creative Commons: Education
• Sofia Open Content Initiative
• Carnegie Mellon’s Open Learning Initiative (OLI)