Online courses are very important to enhance your profile for admission, scholarship, and job abroad. Further, online courses increase our knowledge and skill. The Best free online courses websites are Coursera, eDx, Udemy, and Udacity. However, They changed their policies a couple of years before and started charging for courses. Still, there are many courses that provide free lessons and certificates. However, it is possible to do those paid courses for free by applying for financial aid. The details about financial aid applications are given at the end of this article. The topics which will be covered in this article are-
- Benefits of online certificates and skills
- Best available engineering online courses (major fields included and hot courses)
- How to apply for financial aid to do paid courses for free
Benefits of online certificates and skills
- Flexible online courses.
- Courses are all recorded, so you take lession on your convinient time.
- Self paced learning
- Assignments with feedback
- Graded exams
- Forum for discussion with other students
- Language: English, Arabic, French, Spanish, Chinese, Russian etc.
Best free online courses with certificates
The below section will highlight all the best courses available on Coursera and eDx. You can choose any field you want and start learning today. Some courses are paid, keep reading to know how to avail full scholarship for those courses.
Covid-19 contact tracing
This is a free course provided by coursera. the rating of the course is 4.9, which is extreamly good. Currently 1,363,925 students are enrolled in this course. The course is provided by JOHNS HOPKINS University. This is an introductory course on Covid-19. Students will learn about the basics of the virus, how it speads, and the infectious period. The instructor is Emiley Gurley, PhD.
Introduction to data science
This is a paid courses. First 7 days are free, after that you have to pay some money to continue. The course if offered by IBM. Currently 63,266 students are enrolled to this course. The course will teach about the wide field of application of data science and what data scientists do. There are 7 qualified instructors in this course.
Python for everybody
The course is provided by university of michigan and it is a paid course. Currently 1,294,527 students are enrolled. The course has a rating of 4.8. The instructor of the course is professor Charles Russel. The course will teach about the basics of Python, the most powerful programming language of the world right now.
Fundamentals of Graphic design
The course id provided by coursera. It is offered by CALARTS. Currently 605,490 students are enrolled in this course. This is one of the best courses on graphic design. The course instructor is Michael worthington. It is an intermediate level course, teaches about the fundamental graphics design tools and their applications. The course is paid and the first 7 days are free.
Principles of management
The course is on Coursera offered by JOHNS HOPKINS University. The rating of the course is 5.00. It is a paid course but financial aid is available. Currently, 3,376 students are enrolled in this course. The course will teach basically the basic and fundamentals of management. The instructor is Illysia Izenberg.
Learn English: Beginning Grammar
The course is on Coursera offered by UCI- Division of counting education. The rating of the course is 4.90. It is a paid course but financial aid is available. Currently, 13,106 students are enrolled in this course. The course will teach the basics of English language and grammar. The course instructor is Rachel Fernandez. The course is paid but financial aid is available.
SolidWorks CAD fundamentals
This course if provided by edX. The course if completely free and it will teach fundamental CAD designing softwares on a professional level. 5,657 students are already enrolled in this course. Joe Rousseau is the course instructor. Prerequisite of this course is that you need to have SolidWorks installed in your computer beforehand.
Circuits for beginners
The course if offered by Natioonal University Singapore. The course will teach about DC circuits and it is an undergraduate level course. The major learning topics are voltage, current and power. The course if free and certificate is also free. Course estimated duration is 6 weeks. Course instructor is AAron Danner.
Become an Entrepreneur
The course is available of edX and offered by MIT. The course will teach about the fundamentals of starting a business, how to develop and run a business efficiently. This is one of the best courses on entrepreneurship. The course if free. The course duration is 6 weeks. Main instructor is Martin Culpepper. The course is currently archived, but it will start very soon.
Global Public health
Available of edX and offered by SDG Aademy. The course helps to understand the importance of health and the need of it globally. The course is free to enroll. Estimated course duration is 10 weeks. 25,893 students are already enrolled in this course. Main course instructor is Richard Cash, except him, there are two other instructors.
How to apply for financial aid
As i mentioned earlier, there are some paid courses on Coursera. Dont worry. I am here to help you. You can apply for financial help and do the courses for free. When you click on the above mentioned "Enroll here" link, you will redirect to the course page. there you will find a a link called :financial aid available". You have to click on that fill out the basic form with your information and a short paragraph of why do you need financial aid. Fill out the form and wait for two weeks. you will get the scholarship to do the courses completely free.
The author of this article applied for financial aid for the above mentioned python course 15 days before and got the full scholarship email today. The email is attached below. If you try, you will also surely get it.
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