Your dreams of getting an MIT, Yale online Education can now become a reality and that too without a penny spent. All that you need to make this happen is an Internet-ready laptop or PC and also a little familiarity with basic skills like downloading files from the Internet and unzipping them. E-learning is now a days gaining a widespread popularity and lots of renowned Universities are posting the entire course including the audio and video lectures, lesson notes, reading lists, assignments and even exam papers on the Web. But the professors will not grade your work as you are a digital student and thus there won’t be any credits given by the school. But you can still enlighten yourself with the quality education without even applying for an admission. With the advent of Internet anyone can now listen to the classes of professors from Stanford and MIT which were once only a dream for many. There are also many local libraries that are ready to offer books and articles for those courses that consist of just notes and reading lists. There are also a lot of courses available in regional languages and you can also download them if you are not very comfortable with English.

MIT tops the list of renowned school to offer impressive catalog of courses online and you may found around dozen complete courses of MIT in most of the E-learning sites. It has also posted the syllabuses and reading lists of almost every course it has offered in the past 5 years. To get more number of students ready, the school has also started a sub-site for the high scholars. Yale also has launched a complete video taped version of almost seven of its major courses online. These were added last month by Yale and some of the courses include astronomy, philosophy, poetry and psychology. Yale is also in the plan of adding 30 more courses to the new website soon.

Interesting news in this regard is about the Open Coursework Consortium. This serves as a repository of dozens of free online courses that one could use to gain more education for free. This includes courses from University of Notre Dame, Johns Hopkins and many more. This site also offers courses in other languages than English. There are also iTunes University, Duke, Berkeley and Stanford that have posted their free video and audio lectures in the Internet.