A lot of online courses are available for statistics learner on web but most of them are paid. Unlike textbook on web, these courses utilizes complete power of web and provide very interactive invironment for learner (through exersises and projects). Following are free sites for online statistics courses.
Open Learning Project: Through the Open Learning Initiative (OLI) project, Carnegie Mellon is working to help the World Wide Web make good and effective online education. Site provides free online education on different subjects like Statistics, Causal and Statistical Reasoning, Biology, Economics, Physics etc. OLI also provides projects based on use of statistics in real situation. Although a lot of materials are available on web for different courses, but OLI has its different identity due to its attempt to utilize virtual power- use of virtual laboratories, group experiments, simulations in true sense. This project has definite plan for evaluation of online training programs. One can see detail list of courses from list of courses page.
CAST: CAST stands for Computer-Assisted Statistics Textbooks and consists of a collection of electronic textbooks (e-books). Three e-books cover material in introductory statistical methods courses with data and scenarios from different application areas. Other e-books teach more advanced topics.
Site of Tufts University is one of important source for Open Educational Resources (OER) movement, bringing access to educational content, tools, and infrastructure to educators, students, and self-learners. It has variety of courses including physics, medicine, epidemiology and biostatistics etc. Its statistics course ConStat Open Educational Recourses (OER) content.
ConStats is a learning tool designed for introductory statistics students to actively experiment with statistical ideas and reasoning. Unlike data analysis programs, ConStats modules gives hands-on experience with statistical concepts for deepening understanding of the science of statistics.
Connections: Site identify its own name as Connexions (and not connections). It provides a platform to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Site claims its contents are modular and can be linked in different ways. Site also tell how to create collecton of modules for specific purpose. Such modular courses may be useful for online training courses. Contents at site come under open educational resources (OER) project. Site has good amount of material on statistics and mathematics. There are many collaborative books on statistics and statistics related areas.
Web Interface for Statistics Education (WISE): A special feature of WISE is the sequence of interactive tutorials on key statistical concepts (sampling distributions, the central limit theorem, hypothesis testing, and statistical power). The tutorials use dynamic applets that allow the user to explore relationships on their own. Guided exercises are designed to help the learner to take full advantage of the applets to gain a deeper understanding of the concepts and logic that underlie much of inferential statistics.
Although from statistics point of view coverage is not wide but site has good orientation for web based statistics education. Under Applet menu, own applets of site are placed. Under link menu there is applet item which provides link for those sites which have applets for statistics learning purposes.
Site also provides teaching aids also. Its unique feature is using signal detection theory for handling uncertainty in broader sense. Note on using JAVA applets tells how students can use the interactive tools for learning statistics.
MIT Open courseware: It is large collection of modules for different subjects. Modules of statistics has been placed at mathematics department. Better to use search for finding all modules related with statistics. Notes from many modules are downloadable.
Experiments at school: It is not exactly on line course but provide opportunity to learn statistics by real data. Its supporting project is census at school. These projects are part of Royal Statistical Society Statistics Education. Currently data from India is not available for census at school.
Above mention links may require login account. It is better to register at site.
