Waxbarashadu waa muhiim, laakiin dariiqa loo maro waxbarashada ayaa si degdeg ah isu beddelaya. Qaadashada shahaado ayaa laga yaabaa inay weli muhiim tahay, laakiin dhaqaalaha qarniga 21aad maaha^(Century) heerkii dahabka ee uu ahaan jiray. 

Waxaad u baahan doontaa inaad sii wadato waxbarashada inta noloshaada ka hadhay si aad u sii wado. Xitaa waxaa laga yaabaa inaad dhowr jeer beddesho xirfadaha inta aad noloshaada ku jirto. Nasiib darro, dadka intooda badan ee shaqeeya, wax walba oo ay u tuuraan si ay ugu noqdaan dugsiga maahan ikhtiyaar macquul ah.

Akhbaarta wanaagsan ayaa ah inaadan noloshaada sii hayn (ama bangi akoonkaaga bangiga) si aad u hesho waxbarasho heer jaamacadeed ah. Waad ku mahadsan tahay dhaqdhaqaaqa waxbarashada furan iyo horumarka eLearning , waxaad ka qaadan kartaa koorsooyin kulliyad online lacag la'aan ah raaxada gurigaaga. Qaar badan oo kuwan ka mid ah badanaa waa bilaash! 

Kuwa soo socdaa waa toban ka mid ah kuwa ugu wanaagsan, mareegaha koorsada kulliyadda ee lacag la'aanta ah. La soco in qaar ka mid ah bogaggan ay sidoo kale^{(also )} martigeliyaan koorsooyin lacag-bixineed ama wax-ku-kordhin lacag ah, laakiin waxaad heli doontaa koorsooyin badan oo bilaash ah si kor loogu qaado aqoontaada heerka xiga.

Qoraal ku saabsan Qiimaynta^(Assessment) iyo Aqoonsiga^{(Accreditation)}

Hal shay oo muhiim ah in la xuso ka hor intaanan tagin boggaga internetka ee koorsada kulliyadda ee dhabta ah waa aqoonsiga iyo qiimaynta. Waxa jira saddex qaybood oo koorsada kulliyadda. Marka hore waa maadada koorsada. Midda labaad waa qiimaynta aqoontaada. Midda saddexaad waa aqoonsiga dugsiga.

Koorasyada khadka tooska ah, saddexdan qaybood badanaa waa kala duwan yihiin. Inta badan, koorsadu waa bilaash. Tani waxay ku fiican tahay qofka raba inuu barto wax cusub. Qiimaynta aqoontaada, marka la bixiyo, badanaa sidoo kale waa bilaash. Waxaad buuxin doontaa imtixaan kombuyuutar ah ama shaqadaada ayaa lagu qiimayn doonaa.

Aqoonsigu waa sheeko kale. Tani waa habka ay machadyadu ku caddeeyaan qiimayntaada oo ay ku siiso sumcadda rasmiga ah ee aqoonta aad heshay. Iyadoo ku xiran nooca aqoonsiga, waxaad caadi ahaan u isticmaali kartaa si aad shaqo u hesho, u hesho credit college ama ujeedo kale oo rasmi ah.

Meesha aqoonsiga laga bixiyo, badanaa waxay sidataa qiimo sumad ah. Inta badan dadka raadinaya inay wax ku bartaan khadka internetka uma baahna aqoonsi, laakiin haddii taasi ay tahay waxa aad ugu dambeyntii ka dib, tani waa hal shay oo aadan ku heli doonin bilaash. 

MIT OpenCourseWare

MIT OpenCourseWare waa mid gaar ah dhowr sababood dartood, laakiin tan ugu muhiimsan waa in ay tahay mashruuca hormuudka ah ee bilaabay waxbarashada heerka kulliyadda bilaashka ah ee shabakadda. Dib ugu noqoshada^(Back) 2001, MIT waxay qaadatay go'aan ah inay ku daabacdo dhammaan agabkooda koorsada online, bilaash ah. 

Isticmaalka qaabka shatiga Hal- abuurka Commons^{(Creative Commons)} , ardayda iyo barayaashu way akhriyi karaan, wax ka beddeli karaan oo dib u isticmaali karaan nuxurka barashada mid ka mid ah machadyada waxbarasho ee ugu sarreeya adduunka.

Marka la eego sumcadda MIT iyo takhasuska tignoolajiyada, waxaad xaq u yeelan lahayd inaad ka filiso koorsooyin badan oo cajiib ah oo ku saabsan aagagga sida Sayniska Kombiyuutarka^{(Computer Science)} iyo Injineerinka^{(Engineering)} . Si kastaba ha ahaatee, waxay sidoo kale leeyihiin koorsooyin kuleej oo online ah oo bilaash ah oo ku saabsan maaddooyinka aadanaha, sida luqadaha, falsafada iyo xitaa daraasadaha jinsiga.

Si ka duwan qaar badan oo ka mid ah boggaga hoose, MIT OpenCourseWare waxay diiradda saartaa nuxurka. Dhab ahaantii ma heli doontid inaad "qaadato" koorsooyinkan. Hase yeeshe, waad soo dejisan kartaa dhammaan agabyada koorsada oo aad adigu mari kartaa. Mararka qaarkood tani waxa ku jira hawlo jawaabo leh, iyo koorasyadii u dambeeyay qaarkood waxa kale oo ka mid ah cajalado muuqaal ah oo casharro ah. 

Haddii aad rabto inaad aragto waxa MIT ka dhigaya mid gaar ah oo aad xiisaynayso aagagga maadooyinkooda gaarka ah, MIT Opencourseware waa kheyraad muhiim ah. Si kastaba ha noqotee, haddii aad rabto wax yar oo is dhexgal ah, markaa aan u gudubno tartamayaasha kale ee mudan ee liiskan ku jira.

Koorso^(Coursera)

Coursera waa mid ka mid ah hormoodyadii MOOC ee hore. ^(MOOC)Taasi waa, Koorsooyin Khadka Tooska ah oo Furan^{(Massive Open Online Courses)} . Waxaa bilaabay laba borofisar oo hore Stanford sanadkii 2012 maantana waxa ay martigalisaa tusmada jaamacadaha sida Princeton , Duke iyo Stanford . Si aan u magacaabo laakiin dhowr. 

Haddii aad diyaar u tahay inaad bixiso kharashka, waxaad heli kartaa shahaado la aqoonsan yahay ama xitaa shahaado! Si kastaba ha noqotee, lacag la'aan haba yaraatee waxaad ku baran kartaa qaar ka mid ah xirfadaha ugu habboon nolosha casriga ah halkan. Coursera waxay si gaar ah qiimo ugu leedahay barashada kuleylaha, xirfadaha cusub ee loo baahan yahay iyo goobaha. 

Koorasyada kulliyadaha khadka tooska ah ee bilaashka ah ee halkan inta badan waa kuwo iskood u socda oo ay isu geeyaan qaar ka mid ah barayaasha ugu fiican adduunka. Waxaad heli kartaa shahaado dhammaystirka koorsooyinka qaarkood, sida tan oo kale.

Dabcan, maaha mid la aqoonsan yahay, laakiin taasi waxay noqon kartaa mid aan dhib ku lahayn loo-shaqeeyahaaga ama qofka kale ee aad rabto inaad muujiso inaad dadaal u gashay barashada wax cusub.

edX

Sida Coursera , edX waa hormuudka kacaanka MOOC . Waxaa la bilaabay 2012. Goobtu waa mashruuc ay iska kaashadeen Jaamacadda Harvard^{(Harvard University)} iyo MIT . Si kastaba ha noqotee, agabka koorsada kulliyadda tooska ah ee edX waxay ka timaadaa machadyo badan oo la ixtiraamo.

Waxa jira koorsooyin heer jaamacadeed ah oo ku saabsan maaddo kasta oo aad qiyaasi karto, oo ay ku jiraan kuwa adag sida injineernimada iyo caafimaadka. Tayada koorasyadu waa kuwo aan caadi ahayn, oo ay ku jiraan waxyaabo badan oo is-xakameyn ah oo ku jira liiska.

Markaad koorsadu bilaash tahay, waxaad heli kartaa "shahaadad la xaqiijiyay" oo lacag ah. Tan waxa loo isticmaali karaa caddayn ahaan inaad ku gudubtay qiimayn iyo inaad ahayd qofka dhammaystiray imtixaanka. Inkasta oo tan aan lagu xisaabin nooc ka mid ah aqoonsiga rasmiga ah, waxaad ku dari kartaa codsiyada shaqada ama codsiyada kale ee khuseeya si aad u muujiso inaad samaysay shaqada.

Khan Academy

Khan Academy waxay ku bilaabatay hab uu Salman Khan uga caawiyo xubnaha qoyska inay fahmaan shaqada guriga ee xisaabta. Maanta waa mid ka mid ah ilaha waxbarasho ee ugu wanaagsan ee internetka. 

Iyadoo inta badan mawduucyada halkan lagu sheegay ay daboolayaan sannad dugsiyeedka ka hor kulliyadda, waxaa sidoo kale jira udiyaarinta kulliyadda iyo agabka heerka kulliyadda halkan sidoo kale. Sidoo kale waa hab fiican oo lagu cadaydo waxyaabaha sida xisaabta dugsiga sare. Tani waa mid waxtar leh haddii aad rabto inaad iska diiwaan geliso kulliyadda noloshaada dambe oo aad tahay xoogaa caajis ah maalmaha dugsigaaga. Marka loo eego dukumeentigooda rasmiga ah, shaqadoodu koorsadu waxay dabooshaa dhammaan K12 iyo kulliyadda “horraanta”.

Wax kasta oo goobta ku yaal waa bilaash, abuurayaashuna waxay sameeyeen mid ka mid ah nidaamyada ugu dareensan si ay u cabbiraan heerkaaga hadda, oo ay kugu hagaan waddo waxbarasho oo ku habboon baahiyahaaga. Tani waxay si gaar ah waxtar ugu leedahay maadooyinka adag sida xisaabta.

Udemy

Udemy waxaa la aas aasay ilaa 2009kii wuxuuna si fudud uga soo xoog batay dunida barashada internetka. Hal-abuurka muhiimka ah ee Udemy waa in ay u fududayso qof kasta oo wax haysta si uu u baro koorsada. Haddii aad tahay khabiir ku wareejin kara xirfadahaaga kuwa kale, markaa Udemy waa meel aad u fiican oo taas lagu sameeyo markaad hesho xoogaa lacag ah.

Haa, qaar badan oo ka mid ah koorasyada Udemy waxay soo jiitaan lacag, laakiin sidoo kale waxaa jira boqolaal iyo boqolaal koorsooyin kuleej oo khadka tooska ah oo bilaash ah oo ku yaal goobta. Inta badan^(Often) , macalimiintu waxay koorsooyinkooda hordhaca ah ka dhigi doonaan lacag la'aan, iyagoo kaliya lacag ku dalaca heerarka dhexe iyo kuwa sare. Taas oo^(Which) macnaheedu yahay inaad si xor ah u baran karto aasaaska maaddooyinka kala duwan. 

Iyadoo guud ahaan koorsooyinkan aan loogu talagalin inay u dhigmaan qaybaha koorsada kulliyadaha, qaar badan oo iyaga ka mid ah waxaa bara macalimiin hawlgab ah ama xirfadlayaal ku takhasusay qaybahaas. Markaa waa hab wanaagsan oo xirfado iyo aqoon looga kasbado goob toos ah si aan rasmi ahayn.

Dhanka kale, Udemy ma laha heerar caafimaad oo adag marka la barbar dhigo kuwa jecel edX ama Coursera , marka waa inaad had iyo jeer waa inaad la xiriirtaa koorsooyin kasta oo lagu bixiyo goobta iyadoo isha muhiimka ah. Waxaan sidoo kale u maleyneynaa in Udemy uu leeyahay mid ka mid ah adeegsadaha ugu saaxiibtinimo badan, barnaamijyada moobilka ee la nadiifiyey ee goob kasta oo waxbarasho oo online ah maanta. Aad bay u mudan tahay in la booqdo!

Udacity

Ma aha in lagu jahwareeriyo magaca la midka ah ee Udemy , Udacity waxaa si caan ah u aasaasay Sebastian Thrun oo weli ah ciyaaryahan muhiim ah adduunka waxbarashada internetka. Markii ugu horeysay ee Udacity la bilaabay, waxay diiradda saaratay dib u habeynta koorsooyinka kuleejka, laakiin maadaama tartanka qaybtan uu kululaaday, Udacity waxay u rogmatay xirfado badan, oo diiradda saaraya xirfadaha.

Waxaa jira koorsooyin badan oo kuleej online ah oo bilaash ah oo ku saabsan Udacity , laakiin haddii aad diyaar u tahay inaad lacag bixiso, waxaad iska qori kartaa Udacity 's barnaamijyada hal-abuurka leh ee "nanodegree", kuwaas oo laga soo dhisay koorasyo ​​yaryar oo kala duwan oo la socda aqoonsi rasmi ah, markaa adiga waxay u isticmaali karaan si ay u codsadaan shaqooyinka iyo ujeedooyinka kale ee rasmiga ah. 

Koorasyada Udacity maaha kuwo iskood u socda, oo waxaad u baahan tahay inaad isdiiwaangeliso oo aad la bilowdo qof kasta oo kale. Taas marka la sheego, waxaa jira kayd aad u ballaadhan oo koorasyo ​​bilaash ah oo hore si loo xisaabiyo. Aqoontu waxay ku jirtaa qaadashada!

Waxbarasho Sabuurad ku fur^{(Open Education by Blackboard)}

Sabuuraddu^(Blackboard) waa mid ka mid ah bixiyeyaasha nidaamka maaraynta barasho ee adduunka ugu horreeya ( LMS ) oo goobtooda ^(LMS)Waxbarashada^(Education) Furan waxay siisaa madal ay machadyadu ku bixiyaan koorsooyin bilaash ah. Waa goob lafo-dhale ah oo qurux badan, laakiin isticmaalkeeda waxay caddaynaysaa inay tahay mid fudud.

Waxa kaliya ee aad u baahan tahay inaad samayso waa inaad gelisaa eray raadin ama baadhid buuga koorsada adoo isticmaalaya filtarrada kala duwan. Tan waxaa ku jira in lagu raadiyo machad, goobta maadada iyo luqadda waxbarida.

Madalku waa yara gaabis ah, laakiin Blackboard lafteedu waa LMS aad u adag waxaana jira koorsooyin badan oo faa'iido leh oo ku jira buug-yaraha kuwaas oo aad ku qaadan karto nuxurka qalbigaaga lacag la'aan.

FurLearn^(OpenLearn)

OpenLearn waa mashruuca ^(OpenLearn)Ilaha Waxbarashada Furan^{(Open Learning Resource)} ee ugu caansan ee Jaamacadda Furan . Sidoo kale waa mid ka mid ah ilaha waxbarasho ee ugu da'da weyn ee ka furan shabakadda, oo soo taxnayd ilaa 1999. Muddo dheer ka hor kacaankii MOOC , oo ay hogaaminayeen goobo ay ka mid yihiin Coursera ama edX.

OpenLearn waxay haysataa buur dhammaystiran oo agab ah kuwa ku jira warshadaha waxbarashada, laakiin qaybta xiisaha u leh ardayda jahawareerka leh ee rabitaanka inay wax bartaan waa liiska koorsooyinka kulliyadaha khadka tooska ah ee bilaashka ah ee la bixiyo. Kuwani waxay daboolayaan kaliya mawduuc kasta oo aad qiyaasi karto, oo leh koorsooyin si cad loo calaamadeeyay dhererka iyo heerka dhibtooda.

Maadaama kuwani yihiin ururinta koorasyo ​​furan oo laga keenay ilo kala duwan, heerka poliishku wuu kala duwan yahay, laakiin waa goob aad u saaxiibtinimo in la isticmaalo iyo agab waxbarasho oo lama huraan ah.

Carnegie Mellon Waxbarasho Furan^{(Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative)}

Carnegie Mellon waa jaamacad kale oo adduunka caan ka ah oo koofiyaddeeda ku dhex tuurtay dhaqdhaqaaqa waxbarasho ee furan. Si kastaba ha ahaatee, ma aha kooras kasta oo ku yaal boggan bilaash. Nasiib wanaag, koorasyada waxaa si cad loogu calaamadeeyay "furan & bilaash" marka ay khuseyso.

Xitaa si ka sii wanaagsan, xitaa uma baahnid inaad saxiixdo xisaab si aad u gasho nuxurka koorsada. In kastoo, dabcan, aadan badbaadin karin wax horumar ah, habayn ama shaqo haddii aadan samayn.

FutureLearn

Futurelearn waa mid ka mid ah galitaanka ugu xiisaha badan ee liiskan. Waxaa laga sameeyay salka hoose si diiradda loo saaro MOOCs , halkii la waafajin lahaa koorsooyinka kulliyadda ee  FutureLearn waxay MOOCs ka dhigtay takhasus ahaan.

Tayada wax soo saarka iyo naqshadaynta koorsooyinkooda ayaa ah mid ka sarreeya tartanka. FutureLearn qayb ahaan waxaa iska leh Jaamacadda Furan^{(Open University)} , laakiin waxay leedahay koorsooyin ay gacan ka geystaan ​​in ka badan 100 machad.

FutureLearn waa wax yar oo la baayacmushtareeyo, taasoo macno samaynaysa maadaama koorasyadaas dhaldhalaalka ahi ay sidoo kale ku kaceen lacag aad u yar in la sameeyo. Akhbaarta wanaagsan ayaa ah inay ka qaadaan hal rukunsad sanadle ah, taasoo ku siinaysa fursad aad ku hesho boqolaal koorsooyin gaaban oo lacag ah. Waxa aan rabno si kastaba ha ahaatee, waa koorsooyin lacag la'aan ah iyo FutureLearn waxay si hagar la'aan ah ugu ururiyeen dhammaan koorsooyinkooda bilaashka ah hal buug^{(one catalogue)} .

Barashadaada Baro!

Intarneedku nolosha waxa uu bilaabay iyada oo ay ugu wacan tahay taageerada akadeemiyadda, marka waa sax in uu siin karo waxbarasho lacag la'aan ah malaayiin qof oo adduunka oo dhan ah maanta.

Tobankan goobood, waxaad heli kartaa waxa la dareemo wadarta guud ee aqoonta aadanaha, oo ay la socoto bulshooyinka isticmaala iyo inta badan helitaanka barayaasha khabiirada ah. Markaa runtii ma haysaa cudur daar ah inaadan naftaada sare u qaadin? Waqtigii wax lagu baran lahaa hadda waa!

10 Best Free Online College Course Websites

Education іs important, but the path to еducation is changing rapidly. Getting a degree may still bе important, but in the 21st Сentury economy it’s not the gold standard іt used to be. 

You’ll need to keep learning for the rest of your life in order to keep up. You may even have to change careers multiple times over the course of your life. Unfortunately, for most people who  work, dropping everything to go back to school is not a viable option.

The good news is that you no longer have to put your life on hold (or empty your bank account) to get a college-level education. Thanks to the open education movement and advances in eLearning, you can take free online college courses from the comfort of your home. Many of these are often free! 

The following are ten of the best, free online college course websites. Be aware that some of these sites also host paid courses or paid add-ons, but you’ll find plenty of free courses to elevate your knowledge to the next level.

A Note on Assessment and Accreditation

One important thing to mention before we get to the actual free online college course websites is accreditation and assessment. There are three components to a college course. The first is course material. The second is assessment of your knowledge. The third is the school’s accreditation.

With online courses, these three components are usually separate. Most often, the course content is free. This is perfect for someone who wants to learn something new. The assessment of your knowledge, when offered, is often also free. You’ll either complete a computerized exam or have your work graded.

Accreditation is a different story. This is the process through which an institution certifies your assessment and gives you formal credit for knowledge gained. Depending on the nature of the accreditation, you can usually use it to get a job, gain college credit or some other formal purpose.

Where accreditation is offered, it usually carries a price tag. Most people looking to learn online don’t need accreditation, but if that’s what you’re ultimately after, this is one thing you won’t get for free. 

MIT OpenCourseWare

MIT OpenCourseWare is special for a few reasons, but the most important is that it’s the pioneering project that kickstarted free college-level education on the web. Back in 2001, MIT made the decision to publish all of their course material online, for free. 

Using the Creative Commons licence framework, students and educators can read, modify and reuse learning content from one of the most elite educational institutions in the world.

Given MIT’s reputation and technological specialization, you’d be right to expect many amazing courses in areas such as Computer Science and Engineering. However, they also have free online college courses in humanities subjects, such as linguistics, philosophy and even gender studies.

Unlike many of the sites below, MIT OpenCourseWare is solely focused on content. You don’t actually get to “take” these courses. Rather, you can download all the course material and go through it yourself. Sometimes this includes assignments with answers, and for some more recent courses it also includes video recordings of lectures. 

If you want to see what makes MIT special and are interested in their specialized subject areas, MIT Opencourseware is an essential resource. However, if you want something a little more interactive, then let’s move on to the other worthy contenders on this list.

Coursera

Coursera is one of the early MOOC pioneers. That is, Massive Open Online Courses. It was started by two ex-Stanford professors back in 2012 and today hosts content from universities such as Princeton, Duke and Stanford. To name but a few. 

If you are willing to pay the fee, you can get an accredited certificate or even a degree! However, for no money at all you can learn some of the most relevant skills in modern life here. Coursera is especially valuable for learning about hot, new in-demand skills and fields. 

The free online college courses here are usually self-paced and put together by some of the best educators in the world. You can get a certificate of completion for some courses, such as this one.

Of course, it’s not accredited, but that might not matter to your employer or whomever else you want to show that you’ve put effort into learning something new.

edX

Like Coursera, edX is a pioneer of the MOOC revolution. Launching in 2012. The site is a joint venture by Harvard University and MIT. However, free online college course material on edX comes from a large variety of respected institutions.

There are college-level courses in just about any subject area that you can imagine, including hard-hitters such as engineering and medicine. The quality of the courses are exceptional, with plenty of self-paced offerings on the menu.

While taking a course is free, you can receive a “verified certificate” for a fee. This can be used as evidence that you’ve passed an assessment and that you were the person who completed the test. Although this does not count as any sort of official accreditation, you can include it with job applications or any other relevant applications to show you’ve done the work.

Khan Academy

Khan Academy started off as a way for Salman Khan to help family members understand their math homework. Today it’s one of the best educational resources on the internet. 

While the majority of topics covered here cover the school years before college, there are college prep and college level material here as well. It’s also an excellent way to brush up on things like high school mathematics. This is helpful if you want to enroll in college later in life and are a bit hazy on your school days. According to their official documentation, their coursework covers all of K12 and “early” college.

Everything on the site is free, and the creators have created one of the most intuitive systems to gauge your current level, and guide you along a learning path suited to your needs. This is especially helpful in tough subject areas such as mathematics.

Udemy

Udemy was founded all the way back in 2009 and has simply gone from strength to strength in the world of online learning. The key innovation of Udemy is that it makes it relatively easy for anyone with something to teach to create a course. If you’re an expert who can transfer your skills to others, then Udemy is a great place to do that while earning some money.

Yes, many of the courses on Udemy do attract a fee, but there are also hundreds and hundreds of excellent free online college courses on the platform. Often, instructors will make their introductory courses free, only charging money for intermediate and advanced levels. Which means that you can freely learn the fundamentals of various subjects. 

While these courses are generally not meant to be the equivalent of college course modules, many of them are taught by retired faculty or professionals in those fields. So it’s a good way to gain skills and knowledge from a field directly in a less formal way.

On the other hand, Udemy does not have stringent curation standards compared to the likes of edX or Coursera, so you’ll always have to approach any courses offered on the site with a critical eye. We also think that Udemy has one of the most user-friendly, polished mobile apps of any online education site today. It’s well worth a visit!

Udacity

Not to be confused with the similarly-named Udemy, Udacity was famously founded by Sebastian Thrun and remains a key player in the world of online education. When Udacity was first launched, it focused on replicating college courses, but as competition in this sector had heated up, Udacity has evolved into a more vocational, skills-focused platform.

There are plenty of excellent free online college courses on Udacity, but if you’re willing to pay you can enroll for Udacity’s innovative “nanodegree” programs, which are built up from various smaller courses and come with a formal accreditation, so you can use them to apply for jobs and other formal purposes. 

Udacity’s courses aren’t self-paced, and you need to enroll and start along with everyone else. That being said, there’s an extensive archive of past free courses to audit. The knowledge is there for the taking!

Open Education by Blackboard

Blackboard is one of the world’s leading learning management system (LMS) providers and their Open Education site provides a platform for institutions to offer free courses. It’s a pretty barebones site, but using it proves to be just as simple.

All you need to do is either enter a search term or browse the course catalog using various filters. This includes searching by institution, subject area and language of instruction.

The platform is a little slow, but Blackboard itself is a very solid LMS and there are plenty of very useful courses in the catalog which you can take to your heart’s content for no money at all.

OpenLearn

OpenLearn is the Open University’s best-known Open Learning Resource project. It’s also one of the oldest open learning resources on the web, dating back to 1999. Long before the MOOC revolution, driven by sites such as Coursera or edX.

OpenLearn has an absolute mountain of resources for those in the education industry, but the part that’s of interest to frugal students with a desire to learn is the catalogue of free online college courses on offer. These cover just about every subject area you can imagine, with courses clearly marked in terms of their length and difficulty level.

Since these are a collection of open courses from various sources, the level of polish varies, but it’s a very user-friendly site to use and an essential learning resource.

Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative

Carnegie Mellon is another world-famous university that’s thrown its hat into the open learning movement. However, not every course on this site is free. Luckily, the courses are clearly marked as “open & free” when applicable.

Even better, you don’t even have to sign up for an account in order to access course content. Although, of course, you can’t save any progress, settings or work if you don’t.

FutureLearn

Futurelearn is one of the most interesting entries on this list. It was created from the ground up to focus on MOOCs, rather than adapting existing college courses  FutureLearn has been making MOOCs as a speciality.

The production quality and design of their courses are a cut above the competition. FutureLearn is partly owned by the Open University, but features courses contributed by well over 100 institutions.

FutureLearn is a little more commercialized, which makes sense since those glossy courses also cost quite a bit of money to make. The good news is that they charge a single annual subscription, which gives you access to hundreds of paid short courses. What we want however, are free courses and FutureLearn have handily lumped all of their free courses together into one catalogue.

Get Your Learn On!

The internet started life thanks to support from academia, so it’s only right that it can provide free education to millions of people all over the world today.

With these ten sites, you have access to what feels like the sum total of human knowledge, along with user communities and often access to expert educators. So do you really have an excuse not to up-skill yourself? The time to learn is now!

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