Are they accredited in any way with Universities or Colleges or is this to audit a course or something different?

I just stumbled on it and seen it was free for the first month and looked interesting, I suspect it is just for general interest....I don't know more about it but I will have more viewing time once the snow flies.

quick research and they seem to get good reviews for personal growth and knowledge. No recognized certificates or such.
Interesting idea.

A better use of free time, than the tube. The NFB also has a large library of free films and documentaries , and some that you do have to pay for but it only costs a few dollars to down load, reasonable for the quality you get.
Of course lots can still be found thats interesting, educational, and free on the net, like Richard Freemans lectures on the properties of light https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLQ2atfqk2c (I had no idea light travels 30% slower in water)

Or anything from The Royal Institution. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYeF244yNGuFefuFKqxIAXw

A better use of free time, than the tube. The NFB also has a large library of free films and documentaries , and some that you do have to pay for but it only costs a few dollars to down load, reasonable for the quality you get.
Of course lots can still be found thats interesting, educational, and free on the net, like Richard Freemans lectures on the properties of light https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLQ2atfqk2c (I had no idea light travels 30% slower in water)

Or anything from The Royal Institution. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYeF244yNGuFefuFKqxIAXw

Your helping me regain my trust of youtube again... 😉

I love YouTube there was a fellow that used mud and such to make a Cobb hut and made a 'kiln' to bake shingles for the roof.
There are many ideas of how to make an emergency shelter. One guy uses a backpack full of plastic lock-ties to make his (lol) and there are many ideas on how to make hot tubs without electricity. One is a southern American with a cute accent that gets a huge copper pot (from mining) and sets up a fire under it (reminds me of cartoons where missionaries are being boiled!)
But, all fun aside there are a lot of informative ones to watch and learn from.

But, all fun aside there are a lot of informative ones to watch and learn from.

Yes there is a lot informative, its just a case of separating the wheat from the chaff.

I like this guys work, and his presentation on ancient Greece Science was mind blowing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq_E2R_hvTY
( I had no idea they could do cataract surgery back then)

and just for something different as a human interest story....Jeri Ellsworth... she has no education, a high school drop out , self taught welder/fabricator, electrical engineer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhQ7d3BK3KQ

Builds transistors and chips from chemicals under a typical sink...makes Macgyver look lame..
https://www.youtube.com/user/jeriellsworth

How could I forget...the Cosmos Series with Carl Sagan... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpJtmhd0bTg
I heard Neil Degrasse Tyson has done a remake but I haven't seen it.
They say by the time he died in 96 over 500 million people had viewed the "Cosmos" show, and 4 in Alabama.
The guy authored 30 some books, 30! I cant seem to finish a Christmas card and get in the mail in time..

and of course James burke, "The Conections Series" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw_gIJrvC4U
I prefer his thoughts in book form, something is lost in you tube form but it will do for general interest.
I also prefer the older stuff like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puWbQ1b-ljU
And you can sure note the difference in perspective of the subject matter viewed from a foreign (British) perspective..
another of his

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QgNpYg0IOU
Very dangerous thoughts in the above vid, many, view sober,with moderation if your not used to such things. Please, no operating heavy equipment, or governing large nations within 24 hrs of viewing. Written late 1970s mostly, and produced around 1981 I think. Takes a bit of time but draws to a presumptive conclusion, with for shadowing (possible totalitarianism control).Amazingly forward looking, seat belts on and trays in their upright positions please.

James Burke again, ..Amazing, just amazing, everything this guy has published should be required reading or watching.
The product of a Oxford education....skip the first 10 minutes..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giB1fEUIuPY

And this is old stuff...like 20 years ago. Where are the current day contemporaries whos thoughts ideas and presentations would be equal to this..its like the western world has been beaten down with a dumb stick since

Ok, this is along the lines of C5s Tales from the green valley, as below. ( http://internationalpreppersnetwork.net/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=6575

But for those not really wanting to be a agrarian peasant. Maybe the manager of some industrial peasants instead..easier on the
back, better hours..... Much of the below is for gear head type people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWX2BbG7xK0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFQ-f1Ax_Pg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWX2BbG7xK0

I think ten or so in each series, with no adds!!

and the series on the beginnings of the train and first steam powered car

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajAMV5HRdEM