Since 2010, there has been a significant boom in MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), and at one point people seemed to think it was going to transform higher education. That hasn't happened--at least not yet. These are free online courses, sometimes from the most prestigious institutions in the world, with materials, power points, and assessments. Some examples of MOOCS:

 

• The MIT Open Course Ware project -- look for courses under "Linguistics and Philosophy"

• Carnegie Mellon's Open Learning Initiative -- so far only a logic courses is available.

• Coursera -- a consortium of Princeton, Penn, Stanford, and University of Michigan. 

• God and the Good life--Notre Dame redesigned its introductory philosophy course into a course it now calls "God and the good life". This course has become extremely popular at Notre Dame and has been replicated at other institutions. All of the materials for the course are accessible online, although there is no option to take it for credit online. 

 

 

Update: 17 Dec. 2015; May 2020; 2-13-2026