Top 10 Online Platforms with Free Courses — Productive Way to Beat Isolation
The recent COVID-19 outbreak forced us to stay indoors and get creative when it comes to spending our time. I’m not talking about online games, binge-watching TV shows and cleaning up the closets, but the self-growth actions that can help with expanding our knowledge.
Due to self-quarantine restrictions, many online platforms made their courses and classes free-of-charge, and now’s your time to seize this opportunity and enroll in as many classes as you can. Learn a new skill or refresh old ones, because there’s never been a better time to start.
Check out some of the online sources that are offering free educations!
#01 edX
edX gives you access to 2000+ online university-level courses in a wide range of disciplines and from 140 leading institutions worldwide. MIT, Harvard, Stanford and Berkeley are just some of the schools and organizations that are a part of this platform. With their classes, you can gain new skills and earn a certificate of completion at the end of the course.
#02 Coursera
Coursera is an online learning platform that offers massive open online courses, specializations and degrees. Currently, they provide over 1900 free online courses in over 50 languages. You can also choose between 4 levels of knowledge: beginner, intermediate, advanced and mixed.
#03 OpenLearn
OpenLearn is an educational website with nearly 1000 free courses across 8 different subject areas. The Open University has over 40 years of experience in delivering flexible learning and 170,000 students are using their courses right now.
#04 Class Central
With Class Central, you can discover free online courses from top worldwide universities. They offer a list of their top-ranked courses based on thousands of reviews written by Class Central users, and the list is generated on a yearly basis.
#05 Open Culture
On Open Culture website, you can find 1,500 online courses from universities like Stanford, Yale, MIT, Harvard and Oxford. You can use them to learn everything you want — from history, philosophy and literature, to physics, biology, psychology and computer science.
#06 Alison
Alison’s Certificate courses are a range of free online courses built for learners of any ability or knowledge level. Each of these free online classes takes less than 3 hours to complete and provides training in a single topic. They have over 1000 available certificate courses from top universities, world-class professors, experts and companies.
#07 Udemy
Udemy has more than 50 million students and 57,000 instructors teaching courses in over 65 languages. There have been over 295 million course enrolments and over 6000 free online classes and courses. Udemy is part of the growing MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) movement available outside the traditional university system.
#08 Google Digital Garage
Google Digital Garage is a platform for learning the fundamentals of online marketing that anyone can take, regardless of their skills or background. This free online learning platform delivers a full digital skills course, using relatable examples of how different types of small businesses can use digital channels in different ways. After the course is completed, participants can receive a certificate endorsed by Google and IAB Europe.
#09 Moz Academy
Moz Academy is offering free access to their online SEO courses during the COVID-19 crisis. This promo is valid till May 31st — just apply the promo code “wegotthis” when you sign up. Anyone can use this resource to level up their skills, learn a new discipline, or simply channel their energy into a productive distraction.
#10 freeCodeCamp
freeCodeCamp is a nonprofit community that helps you learn to code by completing coding challenges and building projects. Each freeCodeCamp certification takes around 300 hours of dedicated learning and all the certifications are completely self-paced, so you can take all the time you need. Also, anyone can join the freeCodeCamp community to get help with finding their first software development job.
So, what will you be learning next?
Taking your time and enrolling in online courses is the best investment you can make at the moment, and it’s completely free. Scroll through any of these online platforms and you’ll find a course for any skill you ever wanted to learn. To make the best out of this situation — upgrade your skills, learn new ones and prepare yourself to rock the job market once we get back to life as we know it.
We made a choice of our favorite courses from each platform — to find out our top picks, click here!
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