Need to Beef Up Your Professional Skills?
The employed and unemployed are finding themselves attracted to colleges with opencourseware — making it ideal for jobseekers seeking to enhance their professional development, but lack the funds to accomplish the task. 
Don’t know what it is? Opencourseware (acronym OCW; commonly found spelled as one conjoined word, as I have it, rather than 2 or 3 individual words) simply means colleges have opened their curricula to the public, enabling people to read/watch, learn, and apply each course’s teachings.
MIT kicked off the opencourseware revolution here in the States in 2002, positioning its online courses as some the most highly sought after. It didn’t take long for other competing colleges to take notice and follow suit.
Open courses are available for nearly anyone, in any career field. A wide range of topics include energy and environment, information technology (IT), science, psychology, math, history, and so on and so on.
It’s worth noting, colleges typically don’t offer a certification or degree upon completing these open courses. So, if you’re seeking an “official education marker,” you’re out of luck. Self-paced, completed online courses can be listed individually within a resume, however.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: http://ocw.jhsph.edu/
Utah State: http://ocw.usu.edu/
MIT: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm
Notre Dame: http://ocw.nd.edu/
Paris Tech: http://graduateschool.paristech.fr/index.php?table=cours
College of Eastern Utah: http://ocw.ceu.edu/
Tufts University: http://ocw.tufts.edu/
Weber State University: http://ocw.weber.edu/
University of California: http://ocw.uci.edu/
Utah Valley University: http://open.uvsc.edu/
UMass Boston: http://ocw.umb.edu/
Michigan State University: http://www.msuglobal.com/ocw
The University of Utah: http://my.courses.utah.edu/course/category.php?id=3
Additional Resources:
OpenCourseWare Consortium: http://www.ocwconsortium.org/
Novell: http://ocw.novell.com/
Web Designers: http://www.collegedegree.com/library/college-life/collegedegree-60-killer-open-courseware-collections-for-web-designers (lists 50 places to learn introductory to web design, plus content development, e-commence, coding/programming, and design)
Energy & Environmental OpenCourseWare: http://eeocw.org/
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