Many colleges and universities nowadays offer free courses online in the form of podcasts, lectures, tutorials and full-blown online classes. Here is a collection of links for onlne courses that might be relevant to advertising & communication:
The Open CourseWare Consortium Project:
http://www.ocwconsortium.org
The OpenCourseWare Finder organizes and lists open (read:free) university courses with materials that you can access online:
http://ocwfinder.com/
Online classes at Berkeley:
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/courses/index.php
http://video.google.com/ucberkeley.html
http://itunes.berkeley.edu/
Online classes at MIT:
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/courses/index.htm
Online classes at Yale:
http://oyc.yale.edu/
Online classes at Brigham Young University
http://ce.byu.edu/is/site/courses/freecourses.cfm
The University of Pennsylvania has an extensive online library with over 25,000 books:
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
The Teaching Company:
http://www.teach12.com/teach12.aspx?ai=16281
Get your MBA Free online:
http://www.changethis.com/17.PersonalMBA
http://joshkaufman.net/personalmba/
Free-Ed.NET:
http://www.free-ed.net/free-ed/FreeEdMain01.asp
Connexions is an open collection of coursework (and a framework for creating it) put together by Rice University:
http://cnx.org/
Browse through the vast treasures at the Library of Congress:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
Sofia Project is a collaborative effort between a few California community colleges:
http://sofia.fhda.edu/gallery/
Thank you so much for this list! Wildly helpful for a guy who needs the training to change jobs, but doesn’t have the money to take regular classes to make it happen. I’m much obliged to you for this collected research.