Open Yale Courses (OYC) provides lectures and other materials from selected Yale College courses to the public free of charge via the Internet. The courses span the full range of liberal arts disciplines, including humanities, social sciences, and physical and biological sciences.

• Registration is not required
• No course credit, degree, or certificate is available through the Open Yale Courses website.

The online courses are designed for a wide range of people around the world, among them self-directed and life-long learners, educators, and high school and college students. The integrated, highly flexible web interface allows users, in effect, to audit Yale undergraduate courses if they wish to. It also gives the user a wide variety of other options for structuring the learning process, for example downloading, redistributing, and remixing course materials.

Each course includes a full set of class lectures produced in high-quality video accompanied by such other course materials as syllabi, suggested readings, and problem sets. The lectures are available as downloadable videos, and an audio-only version is also offered. In addition, searchable transcripts of each lecture are provided.

department	course number	course title	professor name	date
African American Studies	AFAM 162	African American History: From Emancipation to the Present (2010)	Jonathan Holloway	Spring 2010
American Studies	AMST 246	Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner	Wai Chee Dimock	Fall 2011
Astronomy	ASTR 160	Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics	Charles Bailyn	Spring 2007
Biomedical Engineering	BENG 100	Frontiers of Biomedical Engineering	W. Mark Saltzman	Spring 2008
Chemistry	CHEM 125a	Freshman Organic Chemistry I	J. Michael McBride	Fall 2008
Chemistry	CHEM 125b	Freshman Organic Chemistry II	J. Michael McBride	Spring 2011
Classics	CLCV 205	Introduction to Ancient Greek History	Donald Kagan	Fall 2007
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology	EEB 122	Principles of Evolution, Ecology and Behavior	Stephen C. Stearns	Spring 2009
Economics	ECON 252	Financial Markets (2008)	Robert J. Shiller	Spring 2008
Economics	ECON 252	Financial Markets (2011)	Robert J. Shiller	Spring 2011
Economics	ECON 251	Financial Theory	John Geanakoplos	Fall 2009
Economics	ECON 159	Game Theory	Ben Polak	Fall 2007
English	ENGL 300	Introduction to Theory of Literature	Paul H. Fry	Spring 2009
English	ENGL 220	Milton	John Rogers	Fall 2007
English	ENGL 310	Modern Poetry	Langdon Hammer	Spring 2007
English	ENGL 291	The American Novel Since 1945	Amy Hungerford	Spring 2008
Environmental Studies	EVST 255	Environmental Politics and Law	John Wargo	Spring 2010
Geology and Geophysics	GG 140	The Atmosphere, the Ocean, and Environmental Change	Ronald B. Smith	Fall 2011
History	HIST 116	The American Revolution	Joanne Freeman	Spring 2010
History	HIST 119	The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877	David W. Blight	Spring 2008
History	HIST 210	The Early Middle Ages, 284–1000	Paul Freedman	Fall 2011
History	HIST 202	European Civilization, 1648-1945	John Merriman	Fall 2008
History	HIST 234	Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600	Frank Snowden	Spring 2010
History	HIST 251	Early Modern England: Politics, Religion, and Society under the Tudors and Stuarts	Keith E. Wrightson	Fall 2009
History	HIST 276	France Since 1871	John Merriman	Fall 2007
History of Art	HSAR 252	Roman Architecture	Diana E. E. Kleiner	Spring 2009
Italian Language and Literature	ITAL 310	Dante in Translation	Giuseppe Mazzotta	Fall 2008
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology	MCDB 150	Global Problems of Population Growth	Robert Wyman	Spring 2009
Philosophy	PHIL 181	Philosophy and the Science of Human Nature	Tamar Gendler	Spring 2011
Philosophy	PHIL 176	Death	Shelly Kagan	Spring 2007
Physics	PHYS 200	Fundamentals of Physics I	Ramamurti Shankar	Fall 2006
Physics	PHYS 201	Fundamentals of Physics II	Ramamurti Shankar	Spring 2010
Political Science	PLSC 270	Capitalism: Success, Crisis, and Reform	Douglas W. Rae	Fall 2009
Political Science	PLSC 114	Introduction to Political Philosophy	Steven B. Smith	Fall 2006
Psychology	PSYC 110	Introduction to Psychology	Paul Bloom	Spring 2007
Psychology	PSYC 123	The Psychology, Biology and Politics of Food	Kelly D. Brownell	Fall 2008
Religious Studies	RLST 152	Introduction to the New Testament History and Literature	Dale B. Martin	Spring 2009
Religious Studies	RLST 145	Introduction to the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible)	Christine Hayes	Fall 2006
Sociology	SOCY 151	Foundations of Modern Social Theory	Iván Szelényi	Fall 2009
Spanish and Portuguese	SPAN 300	Cervantes' Don Quixote	Roberto González Echevarría	Fall 2009

MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) is an initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to publish all of the educational materials from its undergraduate- and graduate-level courses online, freely and openly available to anyone, anywhere. The project was announced on April 4, 2001,[1] and uses Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. The program was originally funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and MIT. Currently,[when?] MIT OpenCourseWare is supported by MIT, corporate underwriting, major gifts, and donations from site visitors.[2] The initiative inspired a number of other institutions to make their course materials available as open educational resources.[3]

As of May 2018, over 2,400 courses were available online. While a few of these were limited to chronological reading lists and discussion topics, a majority provided homework problems and exams (often with solutions) and lecture notes. Some courses also included interactive web demonstrations in Java, complete textbooks written by MIT professors, and streaming video lectures.

As of May 2018, 100 courses included complete video lectures. The videos were available in streaming mode, but could also be downloaded for viewing offline. All video and audio files were also available from YouTube, iTunes U and the Internet Archive.