Free Online Education: How It Works

MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) offer free courses from prestigious universities:

CourseraMOOC

The largest MOOC platform with hundreds of free courses from universities like Stanford, Yale, Duke.

InternationalFree Courses
Topics: IT, Business, Languages, Health, Arts
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edXNonprofit

Founded by Harvard and MIT. Over 2,500 courses in 30+ subjects, basic courses free.

InternationalHarvard/MIT
Topics: Computer Science, Business, Languages, Sciences
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Khan Academy100% Free

Completely free learning platform. Mathematics, sciences, economics - for students and adults.

InternationalNonprofit
Topics: Mathematics, Physics, Biology, Economics, History
khanacademy.org →

FutureLearnUK

British MOOC platform with courses from leading universities. Free basic versions available.

UK/InternationalEnglish
Topics: Business, IT, Health, Languages
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OpenLearn (Open University)University

Free learning from The Open University. Over 1,000 free courses and learning resources.

UKFree
Topics: Wide range of academic subjects
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DuolingoLanguages

Free app for learning languages. Over 40 languages with gamified approach.

InternationalFree
Languages: English, Spanish, French, German, and many more
duolingo.com →

CodecademyTech

Learn to code for free. Interactive programming courses in Python, JavaScript, HTML/CSS and more.

InternationalFreemium
Topics: Programming, web development, data science
codecademy.com →

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