Free Courses and Training

Coursera.com is a popular and solid online learning platform.  Coursera offers a vast number of free and fee-based courses.  

Coursera partners with a large number of universities and learning centers, worldwide, to bring high-quality training to all.  Many of the partner unversities and training centers offer free courses to the public, and host these free courses on the Coursera platform.  

Click on the link, below to learn more about these free courses. 

OpenLearn is an arm of Open University.  This popular online learning platform offers more than 1,000 free courses to students worldwide.  

Students have the opportunity to receive a "Statement of Participation" after completing some courses.  While some courses award a "digital badge" on completion.

Here are the categories   of free courses offered by OpenLearn (Each category offers numerous courses):

• Health, Sports and Psychology
• Education & Development
• History & the Arts
• Languages
• Money & Business
• Nature & Environment
• Science, Maths & Technology
• Society, Politics & Law
• Digital & Computing

Udacity.com hosts a wonderful variety of free courses.  Udacity focuses on providing world-class training in digital skills.  If you want to launch or enhance your career in the digital disciplines, Udacity is the place to study.

Here is a small sample of the free classes offered on the Udacity online learning platform:

1. Getting Started with Google Workspace
2. Google Cloud Digital Leader Training
3. Cloud Native Fundamentals
4. Linear Algebra Refresher Course
5. Machine Learning for Trading
6. Introduction for Computer Vision
7. Full Stack Foundations
8. Product Manager Interview Preparation
9. Spark
10. Introduction to Python Programming

edX is a well-respected, online  learning platform offering a wide range of courses to people worldwide.  

edX courses are fee-based.  However, most of these courses offer a free "Audit Track".  If you pursue this track, you will not receive a "Certificate of Achievement".  Additionally, this track is time- and resource-restricted.   Students who begin a course via the free "Audit Track" can upgrade to the fee-based "Verified" track while the course is underway.

edX partners with scores of universities and other learning centers, provide a rich assortment of courses for all levels of students.