Free University Courses and Podcasts Online...

In the area of freeing the intellect, there are a number of very interesting free online University courses--ranging from podcasted lectures to full out text-based reading and inquiry--being offered by a number of universities in the United States, United Kingdom, and abroad.

• Openculture has an extensive list of podcast lectures last updated in 2007. Some of these lectures require iTunes to function properly and undoubtedly contain a measure of DRM, but others can be downloaded as simple mp3s and loaded onto the system or player of the user's choice.
• Education-Portal has a list of ten universities with the "best" free online courses. The programs listed offer varying levels of course content and educational support material in a number of different subject areas.

So far it has been difficult to locate Canadian content in the free university course realm.

• McGill's COOL (COurses OnLine) has audio lectures and slides from various undergraduate science classes posted online, although it is not clear whether these are intended for students or if they are open to the general public.
• North Vancouver's Capilano College is also listed as a member of MIT's OpenCourseWare consortium.
  

If you know of any Canadian universities currently offering free courses online, please leave a comment!