This course is a 15-week online introduction to information theory, which emphasizes fundamental concepts as well as analytical techniques. Specific topics include: Information Measures, The I-Measure, Zero-Error Data Compression, Weak Typicality, Strong Typicality, Discrete Memoryless Channels, Rate-Distortion Theory, The Blahut-Arimoto Algorithms, Differential Entropy, Continuous-Valued Channels.  

The course has been offered on Coursera in Spring 2014, Fall 2014, and Spring 2015.  It is now available for free access at

http://www.inc.cuhk.edu.hk/InformationTheory/index.html