Free online courses for learning skills online, from SIX excellent providers. Learn valuable skills online, through high quality content. Something for all ages.
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FREE udemy
Free online learning
What are udemy offering for free?
- Approximately 500 genuinely free courses.
- Courses to improve your technical, personal growth & wellness, productivity & professional skills, and more.
What we like
- This is an extremely well known name in online learning. Although they do paid courses too, they have many highly rated free courses.
FREE MIT Open Courseware
Free online learning
What are MIT OCW offering for free?
- MIT OpenCourseWare is a free and open collection of material from thousands of MIT courses, covering the entire MIT curriculum.
- The courses are at undergraduate, and graduate-level. The majority of courses in the science and technology fields.
What we like
- We think what the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, are doing with their OpenCourseWare project should be applauded.
- Even though they are one of the most selective academic institutions in the world, they want everyone everywhere to be able to learn for free.
- They publish materials from their courses online, including interactive learning, full textbooks, and lectures (video).
- Not only is everything free, you don’t even have to register to access materials.
- Furthermore, you can download anything (including videos) to keep forever, and/or for offline use.
FREE Khan Academy
Free online learning
What are Khan Academy offering for free?
- Their mission is to provide a free, world‑class education to everyone.
- Personalised learning resources, for all ages.
- Particularly useful for school children of all variety of ages, anyone of any age can use these resources to refresh their knowledge or even learn something new.
What we like
- If Khan Academy was only offering their free 8,000+ video lessons, on a wide range of subjects, we would still be highly recommending this site.
- We love how the lessons are short form, and therefore easily digestible.
- The site goes so much further than just videos, creating a personalised learning experience, making this one of our favourite resources. This helps material really sink in for learners, rather than the results of just passively watching videos. Watch the videos, then use the practice exercises, and teaching tools.
- There is progress tracking too, so for example parents can keep an eye on their child’s progress.
FREE Coursera
Free online learning
What are coursera offering for free?
- A multitude of genuinely free courses.
- Founded by 2 Stanford University professors, this is an excellent resource.
What we like
- Coursera offers a multitude of complete online courses for free (not every course is free, but there are so many free ones on this website, we are happy to recommend them).
FREE Alison
Free online learning
What are Alison offering for free?
- ALISON stands for Advance Learning Interactive Systems Online.
- Over 4,000 free online courses, across nine categories
- They make their money from advertising, and sales of certificates (which you don’t need to pay for, if you don’t want them).
What we like
- We like the wide selection of free online courses, including higher education subjects, and workplace skills.
FREE P2PU
Free online learning
What are P2PU offering for free?
- P2PU is in fact an acronym for Peer 2 Peer University, which gives you an idea of what it is about.
- P2PU believe that knowledge should be freely shared, and learning is best done with others.
- Free facilitated study groups for people who want to learn something together.
What we like
- We love what P2PU are trying to do. If you find it difficult to motivate yourself learning on your own, this site offers something unique, and for free (they are a non-profit).
- You can join a study group for a topic you are interested in, or even organise one yourself.
- You will communicate with your fellow study group members via video chat, and messaging.