10 Online platforms take professional courses for free.

It is not just another hype -online professional courses are making a significant impact on human development; a phenomenon in the learning experience for the workforce and career progression.

With online courses, anyone from any part of the world can gain knowledge in any field of interest for free or almost.

All you need is a computer; laptop, tablet, or Smartphone – internet connection, commitment, and a self-made schedule. You can even get a certificate for completing a course.

Here is a list of online platforms that offer such opportunities for free.

1. ALISON

(Advance Learning Interactive System Online) offers Free Online Courses, Workplace Skills, Interactive Education and Multimedia learning. With ALISON you can take online courses with certificate of completion or Diploma level, on a wide range of courses even health-related courses and caregiving. 

2. Coursera

Coursera offers high quality courses from top universities, for free to everyone to improve your resume, advance your career, expand your knowledge, and gain confidence. This online learning platform currently hosts courses from Princeton University, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, and University of Pennsylvania.

3. Udemy

Udemys goal is to disrupt and democratize the world of education by enabling anyone to teach and learn online. It seeks to dramatically change education by empowering millions of experts around the world to teach &share what they know. Some courses in Udemy are not free but are at a very affordable amount.

4. Udacity

When Udacity started its first courses in February 2012, the model was that all online courses are open enrollment; you can learn at your own pace and access all of the information you need at any time. Upon completion of the class, you download your class certification to demonstrate your level of achievement in the course, all for free. However, in April 2014, it announced that effective from May 16, they will be phasing out certificates for free courseware completion. Students are now required to pay to complete courses and get a verified certificate.

5. Khan Academy

At Khan Academy, you learn almost anything for free. With over 3,100 videos on everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and hundreds of skills to practice, the online academy is on the mission to help you learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace.

6. Edx

EdX is a transformational partnership in online education between The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University to offer online university courses with certificates to millions of people around the world.

7. University of the People

University of the People (UoPeople) is proclaimed the worlds first tuition-free online university dedicated to the global advancement and democratization of higher education. UoPeople offers Associates and Bachelors degree programs in Business Administration and Computer Science.

8. Saylor

Saylor strives to provide quality education for free for everyone around the world. The Saylor team hires credentialed professors to create course blueprints and to locate, vet, and organize Open Education Resources – OER materials into a structured and intuitive format. Each course culminates with a final exam, and students receiving a passing grade can download a certificate of completion.

9. Skillfeed

Suppose you are looking to learn a new skill, or improve on your proficiency in Photoshop, Illustrator, or HTML. In that case, Skillfeed offers unlimited access to high-quality video courses from a worldwide community of instructors. You have a month's free trial and after that, you will subscribe to a monthly fee to gain unlimited access to all courses.

10. Academic Faith

Academic Earth has curated links to over 750 online courses and 8,500 individual online lectures, giving students of all ages unparalleled access to college courses they may otherwise never experience.

These foreign universities offer free online courses you can benefit from.

1. MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2. Yale Open Courses

University of Yale

3. Open.Michigan, the University of Michigan's OCW initiative, features a giant collection of courses from 19 of the university's schools, colleges, and units.

University of Michigan

4. Harvard Medical School

5. Carnegie Mellon

Carnegie Mellon University

In conclusion, whether supplementing existing coursework or learning for the sake of learning, anyone with an internet connection has the freedom to learn at their own pace from world-renowned experts, without the burden of rising tuition costs. 

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