With so many career options, many students do not seem satisfied with a single degree and look out for other short-term courses or full time courses that can provide them with the edge to accomplish their career objectives.
Some intend to learn a new language such as German, Mandarin, Japanese, Arabic, or French that can help them to work in multinational companies or overseas that will not only pay them a hefty paycheck but will also provide them exposure to further career options.
Some students desire to learn coding or digital marketing in their free time that can help them to increase their overall skills and help them in job market.
However, they are often reluctant take up a second course for the fear of an exorbitant course fee or lack of time. There are many online free resources that does not charge a cent and enable students or working professionals to learn at their own pace.
Some of them are listed below.
- Coursera
Coursera is one of the largest online course websites which has some of the best and most sought after massive online open courses (MOOCs) to choose from. Coursera provides more than 1000 courses from renowned institutions such as Yale, Stanford, and Johns Hopkins. You do not have to provide any application for these courses and online programs and can get the certificate at a very cheap price or even without any costs.
- edX
edX offers a wide range of courses starting from architecture to zoology. The prices of all courses are very low and some are offered for free. edX has tie ups with several reputed universities including MIT, Harvard University, Boston University, The University of Queensland, The University of British Columbia.
- OpenClassrooms
OpenClassrooms is a contemporary vocational school that imparts pre-professional skills in subjects such as web development, digital marketing, design, search engine optimization, etc.
- Khan Academy
This is a video tutorial platform founded by tech entrepreneur Salman Khan. This site offers lessons in the form of YouTube videos where students can learn at their own sweet time for absolutely free of charge. It has now emerged as a video library, not affiliated to university, which provides education on all subjects.
- Yousician.
Yousician is a online tutorial site that helps people to learn to play a musical instrument. People interested to play the piano, guitar, violin, and cello can learn interactive tutorial lessons.
- Duolingo
Duolingo is a language learning website that provides courses in all languages. These courses are provided in a gamified system which makes learning fun.
- Codecademy
Codecademy is a website that provides short-term courses in every area of coding, from Ruby to HTML. The site has no teachers and it allows users to learn at their own pace.
- Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History
Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History is a podcast in which listeners can learn anything about world history. The podcast is hosted by Dan Carlin, an experienced historian, radio presenter, and political commentator.
- The Startup Chat
The Startup Chart is a podcast where listeners get ideas about launching their own startups or enhancing their startups’ operations.
- Andreessen Horowitz
Andreessen Horowitz is a podcast that has been funded by Twitter, Pinterest, and AirBnB. The presenters of the podcast are some of the renowned entrepreneurs and innovators who speak on the macro topics in the technology domain that will shape the industry’s future.
- Coursmos
Coursmos is a web-based platform that provides about 50,000 lessons in nearly 11,000 courses. Many courses can be enrolled at free of charge.
- Datamonkey
Datamonkey is an example-based tutorial platform that helps users to develop their data analytical skills in a relaxed, simple, yet fun manner.
- Code School
Code School is an online learning platform that helps users to learn coding with screencasts, programming challenges, and video tutorials.
- CreativeLive
CreativeLive is a web-based tutorial site that broadcasts free creative classes to a global user base.
- Learnable
Learnable is an online learning platform that teaches users to learn web development through interactive sessions.
