Top 8 Best Websites for Free Online Education

One of the best part of the Internet is that we do have access to many different educational resources that makes our life easier and help us to grow both professionally and mentally. But the problem arises when those resources are paid one. So, to overcome the problem of paying bucks for getting knowledge (Education), we come up with a list of Top 8 Best Websites for Free Online Education.

Top 8 Best Websites for Free Online Education:

1. edX

edX is founded by Harvard and MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in May 2012. It is an open online learning platform, which offers a massive number of high-quality courses from the world’s prestigious universities and institutions.

edX has been able to gain more than 25 Million learners by providing 2,800+ courses in various subjects including Business Management, computer science, math & humanities by being in partnership with over 120 top Institutions across the world including MIT, Harvard, Boston University, and Stanford.

Along with offering Free Courses that can be accessed by anyone from all around the world to gain knowledge, they also offer courses for a fee that includes a certification of completion. They are the only leading MOOC provider that is both a nonprofit and open source.

2. Coursera

Coursera is founded by Stanford computer science professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller in 2012. It is an open learning platform that provides a massive number of high-quality courses, specializations, and degrees.

Coursera has been able to gain more than 63 Million learners enrolled by providing 4,300+ courses, 430+ specializations, and 20 degrees in various subjects including Coding, Business Management & humanities by being in partnership with 200+ world’s top universities and industry educators. Along with providing free courses, Coursera also offers various certification courses ranging from $29 – $99. The price of Specializations and Degrees are quite higher than those of courses.

3. Udemy

Udemy is founded by Eren Bali, ‎Gagan Biyani‎ , and Oktay Caglar in 2010. It is an online learning platform created in America mainly targeted for students and professional adults.

Udemy has been able to gain more than 55 Million learners by providing 100,000+ courses in 50 languages in various subjects by being in partnership with over 57,000+ educators that teach courses in more than 65 languages.

Till now, as of 2020, Udemy has

• 57k Instructors
• 150k Courses
• 295M Course enrollments
• 33M Minutes of video
• 65+ Languages
• 5,000+ Enterprise customers

4. Ted-Ed

TED-Ed is founded by Richard Saul Wurman and Harry Marks in 1984. It is TED’s initiative to share the ideas and knowledge of teachers and students around the world.

Till now, TED-Ed has over 250,000+ educators that add various knowledgeable content to millions of learners around the world. TED-Ed has come a long way from just an idea worth spreading into an award-winning open education platform that adds value to many learners.

5. Khan Academy

Khan Academy is founded by Salman Khan, an American educator, in 2008. It is a non-profit educational organization that started with the aim of providing online platforms to educate everyone across the world with a world-class education that too for free.

It is free for both learners as well as educators covering various subjects including, Maths, Science, Grammar, and for various exam preparation like SAT.

As it is a free and non-profit organization, You can Donate for helping them to run the organization smoothly.

6. Codecademy

Codeacademy is founded by Zach Sims and Ryan Bubinski in August 2011. It is an online education platform, especially for the coders, that provides programming classes in 12 languages including Python, Java, Go, JavaScript, Ruby, SQL, C++, Swift, and Sass, as well as markup languages HTML and CSS.

The platform of Codeacademy is designed very interactive to help you to learn programming languages. Most of the courses that are free can be completed within the duration of 11 hours. Codeacademy has been able to gain more than 45 Million learners. Along with providing free courses, Codeacademy also offers a premium plan for individual as well as for the team.

7. Stanford Online

Stanford Online is founded by Leland Stanford and his wife, Jane, in 1885 to promote the public welfare by exercising an influence in behalf of humanity and civilization.

It is an online education initiative taken at Standford university, to offer courses from every Stanford’s Schools, Graduate and Undergraduate including Stanford Law School, Stanford Business School, and Stanford Medical School. Stanford Online provides various free online courses as well as professional certificates, advanced degrees and executive education

8. MIT OpenCourseWare

MIT OpenCourseWare is started by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), under the charge of MIT provost Robert Brown in 1999. It was started with the aim of publishing all the education materials of MIT from the course of the Undergraduate and Graduate level.

Every material uploaded on MIT OpenCourseWare has free access to anyone across the world, which includes MIT Lecture Notes, assignments, test papers, and lectures along with other materials available at MIT.

Tell Us Your Opinion

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