I've tried Coursera for a couple of courses and I can recommend them (free if you don't require a certificate or extra tution etc). Nothing like having deadlines to submit the exercises to force you to find time to learn. Also you can say to family, erm sorry I need to study and submit an assignment rather than I'm reading.
I have done improve your musicianship first course (there are more now). Very basic but it does focus on improving one's ear for music which was good for me. Basically it covered blues progressions but covered identifying intervals . . .
I've done the music production course. Excellent introduction to music, recording,. . . for me. More intense and harder work in my opinion. Covers types of microphones, noise, DAWs, how effects work (wet/dry, LFO,...) . . . Loads more.
I almost completed the song writing course. The guy has collaborated with lots of people. The most intensive for me. I spent hours on this each week. I learnt huge amounts. Type of rhyming, number of lines, tension, harmony of choice of words, . . . Shed loads. Clashed with Christmas the other year so never completed but it's excellent.
I can't decide whether to study The music of the Beatles or the other newly added Improve your musicianship courses.
Hope the FretBoard folks find this of interest, let me know ;-)
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My wife started a psychology course - that was terrible because of the lecturer.
The are no doubt crap lecturers in Oxford.
Not like you will lose money.
I think I looked at FutureLearn too I think they all try to be a portal and take from the same places Like Berkeley for Music, MIT for Maths etc.
I know what you mean it gets hard to find the time but I use that as a kick up the back side to get things done to meet the deadline.
Shows how they gauge the readership. So far well thought out IMO.