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Free Media Arts Courses
Free media arts courses will teach interested students about a variety of subjects. Learn about the technologies of the world, photography and photo journalism, holographic imagining, and more.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT makes available many courses on media arts, including topics like relational machines, media, education, and the marketplace, and technologies for creative learning. Students can access course materials from MIT's OpenCourseWare.
- Relational Machines
- Media, Education, and the Marketplace
- Holographic Imaging
- Numeric Photography
- Digital Typography
- Technologies for Creative Learning
- How to Make (Almost) Anything
- Special Topics in Media Technology: Cooperative Machines
- New Media Literacies
- Media Industries and Systems
- Techno-identity: Who We Are and How We Perceive Ourselves and Others
- From Print to Digital: Technologies of the Word, 1450 - Present
- Signals, Systems and Information for Media Technology
- Documentary Photography and Photo Journalism: Still Images of a World in Motion
- Digital Anthropology
Free Online Media Arts Courses At a Glance
| Course & School | Program Level | Format | Assignments | Quizzes & Exams | Downloadable |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Relational Machines course from MIT | Graduate | Textbooks/lecture notes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Media, Education, and the Marketplace course from MIT | Graduate | Textbooks/video lectures | Yes | No | Yes |
| Holographic Imaging course from MIT | Undergraduate | Texts/labs | Yes | No | Yes |
| Numeric Photography course from MIT | Graduate | Text | Yes | No | Yes |
| Digital Typography course from MIT | Graduate | Text | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Technologies for Creative Learning course from MIT | Graduate | Textbooks | Yes | No | Yes |
| How to Make (Almost) Anything course from MIT | Graduate | Lecture notes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Special Topics in Media Technology: Cooperative Machines course from MIT | Graduate | Textbooks/lecture notes | Yes | No | Yes |
| New Media Literacies course from MIT | Undergraduate/graduate | Textbooks/lecture notes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Media Industries and Systems course from MIT | Undergraduate | Textbooks/lecture notes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Techno-identity: Who We Are and How We Perceive Ourselves and Others course from MIT | Graduate | Texts | Yes | No | Yes |
| From Print to Digital: Technologies of the Word, 1450 - Present course from MIT | Undergraduate/graduate | Textbooks | Yes | No | Yes |
| Signals, Systems and Information for Media Technology course from MIT | Undergraduate/graduate | Textbooks | Yes | No | Yes |
| Documentary Photography and Photo Journalism: Still Images of a World in Motion course from MIT | Undergraduate/graduate | Texts | Yes | No | Yes |
| Digital Anthropology course from MIT | Graduate | Lecture notes | Yes | No | Yes |
