Unlocking Knowledge, Empowering Minds is the recent motto on MIT’s OCW website.

Over the last several years multiple institutions have posted online their courses with lecture notes, exams, and videos for free.

Not having financial resources to attend college is not a reason to not excel. With the advent of the Internet, the knowledge is just a click away,  giving everyone the opportunity to attend renowned higher education institutions virtually.

Here is a classic example of great work by Prof. Shiv Kalyanaraman from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) on Computer Networking.

Topics range from basic Communication Networks to Internet Protocols to Broadband and Optical Networks as well as Wireless and experimental networking.

A partial list of institutions who share their knowledge and are members of the Open Courseware Consortium.

• Notre Dame OpenCourseWare
• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Tufts University OCW
• Utah State University OpenCourseWare
• The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s OPENCOURSEWARE
• UC Irving OCW

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