Yep! Many colleges including UC Berkeley and MIT are now offering their courses free online. You can't get credit for them but you can learn which may be more important. Berkeley is now using the popular YouTube service to upload videos of lectures.
"Playlist: SIMS 141 - Search Engines
Description: Search Engines: Technology, Society, and Business. The World Wide Web brings much of the world's knowledge into the reach of nearly everyone with a computer and an internet connection. The availability of huge quantities of information at our fingertips is transforming government, business, and many other aspects of society. Topics include search advertising and auctions, search and privacy, search ranking, internationalization, anti-spam efforts, local search, peer-to-peer search, and search of blogs and online communities. The Instructor, Dr. Marti Hearst, is an associate professor in the School of Information at UC Berkeley."
http://youtube.com/view_play_list?p=1777A89066B1D71Dhttp://youtube.com/ucberkeleyAll Berkeley lectures currently offered
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/av/index.htmSome great stuff under Sloan School of Management and Special Programs