Geography is the science of Planet Earth itself. The word is derived from the Greek language and the meaning of its Greek counterpart literally is “earth description”. This study is as old as time itself. People have always been fascinated and have ventured further and further. Here’s your chance to do so too with these free online courses. Read on to know more.

Mr.Donn’s Geography Lessons

Starting off with a fun yet informative website, we have Mr.Donn.org. This site addresses geography from a starter level point of view and has all the basic categories listed down neatly in separate links. Starting with basic concepts and their applications, this site is the best for you to get started.

About.com; Geography Course

About.com, a leading how-to website, has an online newsletter course on geography. All you do is subscribe with your email ID only and receive the courses periodically to your inbox. There’s no hassle of websites and membership and other issues.

Saylor.org; World Regional Geography

Saylor.org is an excellent site for online learning. Each of its courses is of top quality and the geography course they have is no exception. There are 14 units in the course apart from final exams and further reading material. This course alone is enough to get you well acquainted with the subject.

Alison.com; Geography Courses

Alison.com is a renowned site for providing free online courses. Here are three courses: Environmental Geography, Planet Earth and its resources and an exciting one; Google Earth’s usage in Geography. Each course covers it’s topic in detail and is not only informative, but it also develops an enthusiasm for geography in you, especially the Google Earth topic.

Berkeley.com; World Regions, People and State Geography

This is part of an actual course from the fall semester of 2006. It is in audio format and contains a dozen or so lessons. The speaker is a professor and speaks in a very engaging way, making the lesson fun to hear and undertake. Furthermore you can download all the lessons and listen later from the links provided below.

Open.edu.com; Geography in Education

This unit is aimed at geography teachers, or those with an interest in studying or teaching geography. This unit looks at the contribution that geography can make in the education of young people and the characteristics and purpose of geography as a subject.

Geographic Information Systems; MIT Opencourses

MIT Openware Courses have a workshop on the Information Systems used for geographic information collection. This course teaches of lab exercises and planning and management techniques involved in utilizing geographic information to a variety of situations. You learn of the technology used to collect data, analysis and so on.

Environmental Geography

This course covers some of the major global issues facing the world, namely deforestation, climate change, droughts and more. It analyses the reasons and effects of these phenomenon. You learn of different strategies to overcome these issues of different intensities.

Annenberg Learning; Human Geography

This course by Annenberg Learning on Human Geography attempts to present geography’s different aspect in a combined form. You learn of the relationship between man and the environment, the different geographical challenges faced and how to identify them.

 The WWW Virtual Library; Earth Science

This is a free online library containing volumes of information on different states of the world and their details of different kinds such as maps, aerial photos and more.