Resources and Links

Finding Financing:

The College Board site allows students to compare financial aid awards, search for scholarships and apply online for financial aid through the College Scholarship Service. Click here to find out more.

eStudentLoan.com Compare student loans and apply online.

Fast Web Scholarships Access over 1.5 million scholarships online.

Peterson's College scholarships by category and searchable online.

The Best Online Colleges 2017 List from US News

Are there Free Colleges in the USA?

What are the best options to make a positive education investment? Research the right answer for you.

Williamson College of the Trades

Williamson College of the Trades is a men's junior trade college located in Middletown Township nearMedia, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia.

It was founded on December 1, 1888 as the Williamson Free School of Mechanical Trades by Isaiah Vansant Williamson, and opened in 1901. On July 1, 2015 it was officially renamed Williamson College of the Trades.[3] It is not affiliated with any religious organization, although it does subscribe to a "Judeo-Christian" belief system.[4]:95
Williamson is the only trade college in the United States of America that gives all students full scholarships to cover tuition, textbooks, and room and board. The college uses their endowment to cover two-thirds of their student costs each year, with the rest coming from private fundraising. The college and its students do not accept federal financial aid. Williamson is accredited by the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges of Technology.

Students must be male residents of the US without criminal conviction, under 20 years old and unmarried. See the video below by clicking on it.

Yale University

Yale has partnered with Coursera, an educational technology platform, to offer massive open online courses (MOOCs) for anyone to take, for free. Coursera’s platform differs from earlier open education initiative such as Open Yale Courses in several significant respects:

Coursera requires all learners to register for the site and enroll in courses;
Coursera is interactive, and assessment is at the heart of the learning experience;
Coursera provides student assessment through machine-graded quizzes and peer-reviewed writing assignments;
although some longer lectures are posted (as in OYC), the typical course on Coursera takes the subject matter covered in a fifty-minute lecture and breaks it into shorter units, and the platform allows the instructor to insert quiz questions at any point in the video segment; and
all students start the course online at the same time and have weekly homework and assignments that must be posted by certain deadlines.

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Kahn Academy

Khan Academy is a non-profit[4] educational organization created in 2006 by educator Salman "Sal" Khan with the aim of providing a "free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere".[5] The organization produces short lectures in the form of YouTube videos.[6]

The brick-and-mortar Khan Lab School opened on September 15, 2014, in Mountain View, California

All videos (hosted via YouTube) are available through Khan Academy's own website (khanacademy.org), which also contains many other features such as progress tracking, practice exercises,[27]

Logging into the site can be done via a Google or a Facebook account for those who do not want to create a separate Khan Academy account.

The material can also be accessed through Khan Academy's own mobile applications,[29] which can be found free of charge in Google Play, App Store and Windows Store.

In July 2014, the U.S. Department of Education launched a $2.2 million randomized-control trial to gauge the effectiveness of Khan Academy.[55] The trial will focus on mathematics and will take place during the 2015–2016 school year.[56]
In August 2015 Khan Academy partnered with Disney & Pixar Animation Studios to launch Pixar in a Box on Khan Academy. The goal is to show how academic concepts students learn in school are used to solve creative challenges in the making of Pixar films.[57]

Open Learning at Harvard

At Harvard Extension School, free and open learning is a priority.

The Extension School was founded with this mission in mind: to create an affordable way for any motivated student to take courses at Harvard. Harvard Extension School stays true to this mission by offering several free courses and nearly 800 for-credit courses at reduced tuition rates.
Explore the series of free or low-cost courses below. In addition, you can also browse Harvard University's Digital Learning Portal, which features online learning content from across the University, both free and fee-based options.

For example:

Intensive Introduction to Computer ScienceIn this course, taught by David Malan, you can learn programming languages like HTML, CSS, and SQL. Through real-world applications, you build computer science skills that can be applied in a variety of different job markets. Hear from students who have taken this course in the following video, and visit the Intensive INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER SCIENCE OPEN LEARNING COURSE PAGE