| If you're considering enrolling in a traditional or online | | | | tuition-based online counterparts do. The interactive |
| degree program, you might consider sampling a free | | | | elements and instructor feedback that accompany |
| college course online. Many free college courses | | | | online courses provide a true feeling for what the |
| provide a feel for the multimedia elements that can | | | | online learning experience is like. Reports have shown |
| enhance modern day studies online and in the | | | | that they can improve student success with online |
| classroom. Instruction in free online college offerings | | | | studies and continued work toward obtaining a |
| is often provided via podcasts and webcasts, as well | | | | degree. |
| as written website content. | | | | Students in free college courses do get to "meet" |
| Online college and university courses and online | | | | college, university and technical school instructors. |
| degree programs themselves are often associated | | | | They might be introduced to courses through audio, |
| with a flexibility that allows students to schedule | | | | text or video. They might view video lectures and |
| studies on their own time. Course work can be | | | | participate in assigned textbook readings that are a |
| obtained and projects filed from wherever students | | | | part of specific courses. |
| have Internet access and whenever they schedule | | | | Free college courses are often referred to as |
| time. Online college and university programs aren't the | | | | "OpenCourseWare," and there are many of them are |
| only courses with websites, however. Many traditional | | | | available online - many from well-known institutions as |
| courses have websites as well. | | | | well. Some free college courses are provided in their |
| Free online college courses don't always provide the | | | | entirety. Others provide highlights of what students |
| opportunities for earning academic credit or | | | | who have enrolled in online college, university and |
| interacting with classmates or instructors that their | | | | technical school programs have enjoyed. |