and here is the complete list of the courses offered - for free - by major US universities
a course at Stanford - Introduction to Databases - scheduled in Oct-Dec 2012 had more than 250.000 registered students from all over the world
the forerunner, as you may know, is MIT's OpenCourseWare -
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm -, which started in September 2002; all MIT undergraduate and graduate courses have become available online
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Prof. Cesare A. Massarenti
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. Imaging Systems Design
3, bd de Charonne - F-75011 Paris
. Department of Sociology - University of Milano-Bicocca
Via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi 8 - I-20126 Milano
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+39 02 6448 7541 - U7 office 354 on 3rd floor
. Cinema & Communication - Polytechnic of Torino
Via Piercarlo Boggio 59 - I-10138 Torino
. Via Curiel 1 - I-20066 Melzo (MI)