It’s one thing to pass the time on your flight with movies or music. But what if you could actually get an education in the process? Some airlines are now offering educational in-flight entertainment.

This past winter, JetBlue began streaming lectures from Coursera, which offers free online classes from major universities. You can learn everything from Introduction to Marketing from Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania to astronomy from the University of Edinburgh.

A separate program called Rouxbe offers instructional cooking videos—basically it’s the first cooking classes held at 30,000 feet.

It’s all part of JetBlue’s new Fly-Fi hub system, which means all of that in-flight entertainment and information is available for free.

Virgin America just launched in-flight education from The Great Courses. Free lectures cover everything from writing creative nonfiction to the history of espionage and covert operations.

While it may not be a college-level course, Qantas is testing out a really high-tech in-flight experience: a virtual reality program, complete with 3-D headsets, of destinations like Kakadu National Park in Australia’s Northern Territory.

Talk about a high-flying education.

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