11 Best Websites For Taking Online Courses

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Earlier, if you wanted to learn something new, you’d go to school or join classes. No doubt, it’s still a great option, but things have changed drastically.

Today, you can experience the same thing from the comfort of your home.

Not only big universities offering their full programs online, but experts are also creating and sharing their own courses.

With so many resources available at your fingertips, you can save a lot of time and money.

With that being said, here is a list of the 11 best educational websites for taking online courses to help in your school & college education. Not only that, you can even learn new skills as part of your hobby.

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The list includes both free and freemium websites offering free and paid courses. A few of them also offer certification after completion. Let’s start with Skillshare.

1. Udemy

Udemy

Udemy offers over 55,000 courses in several topics including technology, productivity, health, hobbies, and lifestyle.

You can find courses from as low as $10 to even high-priced ones. Like Skillshare, they also offer free courses that you can explore from here.

They don’t have a membership system, so you have to pay for each course you take. But the good thing is, they offer a 30-day money-back guarantee on every purchase.

So, even if you don’t like the course, you can get your money back, which makes it a pretty good resource.

2. Coursera

Coursera

Coursera offers online courses from over 140 of the country’s top universities and organizations.

It has partnered with Duke, Stanford, John Hopkins, etc to offer universal access to the world’s best education.

You can find over 2,000 paid and free courses along with official certifications in over 180 fields. This includes business, accounting, data science, entrepreneurship, etc. 

Courses offered are best to learn the fundamentals & theoretical parts of different subjects. So, if you’re interested in learning them, Coursera is the right choice.

3. edX

edX

edX is like Coursera where you can find courses related to higher education from over 120 Educational partners including Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, the University of Maryland, the University of Queensland, and others.

You can find courses in language, computer science, psychology, general biology, marketing & much more.

This is a great platform for high school level education & earning credit for University.

Credits are official credentials from the institution signed by the instructor to verify your achievement.

4. Lynda

Lynda

Lynda is a popular educational hub owned by LinkedIn for professionals looking to learn new skills related to business, technology, and creativity.

They have over 6,200 courses falling under categories like animation, audio, music, business, design development, marketing, photography, video, and more.

When you sign up with Lynda, you’re enrolled in their 30-day free trial plan.

During this period, you can take various courses to see whether is it worth your investment.

However, be sure to cancel your trial plan before 30 days else they will charge you either $20 a month for a basic membership or $30 for a premium membership.

Apart from this, if you wish to deactivate your membership, you can always come back using the reactivate feature.

This feature restores all your account data, including all your courses, history, and progress numbers.

5. Codecademy

Codecademy

Codecademy offers free courses in 12 different programming languages. The language includes HTML, Javascript, CSS, Python, PHP, Ruby, etc.

Although it’s a free resource, the courses are not very in-depth. It won’t teach you how to solve problems, but you can get exposure to different languages.

Each course has several coding exercises to let you practice right inside your browser.

I would only suggest Codecademy for practicing purposes. If you want to know how writing coding feels like, this is a great platform.

6. Open Culture

Open-culture-website

If you are on a tight budget but still looking for quality education content, you should visit Open Culture.

They have a library of 1,300 courses with over 45,000 hours of audio and video lectures totally free.

You can find all the courses on a single page organized by category in alphabetical order, which makes searching easier.

Many of the courses available on Open Culture are from leading institutions from around the world, including Yale, Stanford, MIT, Harvard, and Berkeley.

Apart from the courses, it also has.

  • 700 free audiobooks.
  • 1000 MOOC (free certificate courses)
  • 800 free ebooks.
  • 200 free textbooks and much more.

7. Tuts Plus

Tuts-Plus-website

Tuts Plus is great for developing creative and technical skills.

It has over 28,000 tutorials and over 1260 media courses, with new courses added every single week.

Besides its vast library of how-to tutorials, courses are available in design & illustration, code, web design, photo & video, business, music & audio, 3D and motion graphics.

Sadly, it has no free trial, but the membership is still affordable at just $29/month.

8. Udacity

Udacity-website

Udacity is committed to bringing advanced education in the most affordable and successful ways possible.

That’s why they offer over 200 free online courses, part of their paid micro-credentials known as Nanodegree

Students who want to learn high-demand skills can always take advantage of this scheme.

They can find courses on Android, iOS, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, web development  & much more.

Compared to traditional schooling, Udemy also offers affordable paid courses that won’t empty your pockets.

Overall, Udacity is an outstanding platform to take courses in technology.

9. Alison

Alison website

Alison offers free high-quality courses, education services, and community support to ten million students across the world.

You can choose from over 1000 free courses designed to provide you with a certificate and diploma-level education.

Alison designs their resources for anyone looking for a new job, promotion, college placement, or a business venture.

However, not every course will provide a free certificate because most of them charge a small fee.

To receive a certificate, you need to score at least 80% on assessments. If you fail, you can always take re-takes.

10. Khan Academy

Khan Academy

Khan Academy is a completely free platform offering educational courses from class one to college tests like the SAT.

It is intended for those people who want free education & can’t afford the membership fees.

Whether it’s maths, science, arts, economics, or any subject, you’ll definitely find video courses on the same.

Like other sites offering paid subscriptions, Khan Academy is totally free. They don’t even have ads and subscriptions to earn any profit.

Their only source of income is via donations, which people will pay for free education.

You can sign up as a learner, parents or teachers to get started.

11. Skillshare

Skillshare

Skillshare is an online community based on video classes. It provides thousands of classes and tutorials on any topic.

Whether it’s cooking, freelancing, or building a website, it has got your back.

All the classes are stacked up with detailed videos ranging from 10 minutes to over 6 hours. This helps you to resume classes without even remembering the last timestamp.

Apart from resuming, you can even download classes from their official app to watch them offline whenever you want.

For anyone who wants to try their service, they offer a 60-day free trial plan during which you get access to their premium courses. But, ensure to cancel it within 60 days if you are not renewing else you will get charged.

To access the free classes, you can click here if you are not interested in the free trial.

So, these are my top 11 Educational websites for taking online courses. Let me know if you have tried any of them. Good Luck.

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  2. Skillshare and Coursera are two of my favorites when it comes to learning new skills online. I often buy courses from Udemy if want to learn a premium skill.

    Haven’t tested the other websites but will surely give them a try.
    Thanks for sharing 🙂

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  3. Hey mahesh, I’m glad after reading your blog, I’m also Indian, you r doing grt keep going and I just know about udemy, I would like to know about online money making in legitimate way coz whenever I tend to try something new my friends stops me saying u won’t get paid if it’s not legal so please tell me more about this, and thank you for sharing.

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