Free Business Classes: The Open University & MIT
If you're interested taking some business classes or, more importantly, gaining the knowledge one would gain in such a class, consider checking out the free classes offered by The Open University and by MIT.
The Open University, a leading UK adult education institution, offers the OpenLearn LearningSpace with free short self-study classes in a variety of topics including Business and Management. Most of these units are designed to be completed in 4 to 6 hours.
Useful looking courses include:
Finding information in business and management
Marketing communications as a strategic function
MIT offers MIT OpenCourseWare with materials from full length undergraduate and graduate courses offered at MIT including many from the Sloan School of Management.
The course materials range from readings and lecture notes to videos and vary from course to course. Interesting examples include:
Special Seminar in Management The Nuts and Bolts of Business Plans
How to Develop "Breakthrough" Products and Services
Entrepreneurial Marketing
If you check out any of these courses more closely, please let us know what you think and be sure to thank the offering institution, if you feel so inclined.
The OpenCourseWare movement is worldwide.
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Posted by: Small Eyez | June 18, 2007 at 05:04 AM
Thanks!
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Posted by: Clyde Smith | June 18, 2007 at 09:54 AM
How many days until Kanye West calls out ProHipHop for making alluding to college on his site.
The over/under is at 2 weeks, factoring in how he'll take a week and a half to complain to his mom. The half week will be trying to get Lola Ogunnaike on the phone to convince her to write the story.
Posted by: Jarrett Carter | June 18, 2007 at 10:01 AM
That Kanye!
Why can't he just leave us in peace?
Posted by: Clyde Smith | June 18, 2007 at 11:28 AM