Open Yale Courses

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Open Yale Courses Free Free public access · no registration required · no Yale course credit, degree, or certificate oyc.yale.edu · 3 Oct 2026

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Open Yale Courses

What it offers: Open Yale Courses provides selected introductory Yale College courses to the public free of charge over the Internet.
Course materials: Courses include recorded lectures, syllabi, suggested readings, and problem sets; the course list also describes exams among the materials.
Media formats: Lectures are available as video, audio, and searchable text transcripts, with downloadable media offered.
Learning audience: The courses are designed for self-directed and lifelong learners, educators, and high school and college students around the world.
No enrollment: Anyone with an Internet connection can access the site without enrollment or registration.
No Yale credential: The website does not offer Yale course credit, a degree, or a certificate for consuming its content.
No faculty interaction: The site does not provide an opportunity to ask Yale faculty questions or submit written work.
Course updates: Open Yale Courses says it is no longer adding new courses to this website.
Reuse license: Most course materials use a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license, allowing reuse with attribution and the same or compatible licensing for adaptations.
Reuse limits: Third-party material may have additional restrictions and is not covered by the Creative Commons license unless a lecture's credits section says otherwise.
Offline use: The site lets users download course materials, including lecture video and MP3 audio files, for use on their devices.
Technical compatibility: Embedded videos play in a browser; the help page names QuickTime, iTunes, and VLC as players for downloadable media files.
Support: The site directs users with general or technical support questions to its Help section.
Price from: Free

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