‘’Despite being quarantined within our homes to protect the health of our society, it doesn’t mean we still can’t continue to socialize, strengthen relationships, and build culture’’

Forced to stay at home due to the COVID-19 and to quarantine introduced by many world governments since March 2020 is not only an opportunity to protect yourself or relax at home but also a chance to enjoy music, theater and cinema or exhibitions of leading world cultural artists and museums online. This is the situation when you can finally take the time not only to entertain but also to educate yourself. You can learn a foreign language, listen to a series of university lectures and seminars, or “walk around” the virtual library. And you know, the list of activities is not limited, it is quite wide and interesting in content. Time can be spent not only on alcohol or on gossip on messengers, but also on the development of new professions, knowledge, skills, and quality cultural leisure. From our part, we are going to make a series of publications that will be devoted to such types of quarantine home activities as home education, entertainment, hobbies, work, and health. And in general, many other interesting things that you will feedback us as well.

However, it is worth starting with the most valuable thing of all time — education. You can learn new things and learn different skills without leaving your home or even getting up off the couch — thanks to the great and powerful Internet, thanks to social networks!

We recommend that you join our online open source (Free Learning COVID19) at the link -

https://sites.google.com/view/free-learning-covid19/home

And to our telegram https://t.me/be2do, where there will be news about online education (free, with discounts, promotional), but also full of information about different virtual things and virtual hangouts. Here are a few other ideas for virtual hangouts:

· Poker tournament (www.pokerstars.net)

· Donut (https://www.donut.com/) — slack extension to regularly pair up team members who don’t know each other well for conversations

· Movie night (https://www.netflixparty.com/)

· Company gym on zoom — hire a trainer to train employees online

· Facebook messenger hangout with friends — easy face filters for fun

A few words about the best online learning sources:

· Coursera (https://www.coursera.org)

Language: depending on the author of the course, most often — English.

Probably the most famous platform for online education. The advantage of the site is that eminent universities post their educational materials here: Stanford, University of Illinois, University of Michigan, Harvard, Penn, Columbia University, MGIMO. There are hundreds of courses, dozens of topics.

· Udacity (https://www.udacity.com)

English language.

Nearly 200 free courses on data, programming, business, and career.

· Edx (www.edx.org)

English language.

Another site that publishes materials from the best universities in the world: Berkeley, Caltech, all 8 Ivy League universities. The subjects of the courses are enormous — from architecture to physics.

· Khan Academy (https://www.khanacademy.org)

Language: English and Russian

The Academy offers practical exercises, a training video and its own educational platform, which allows you to master the disciplines at your own pace. Service motto: you should know only one thing — you can learn everything

· Udemy (https://www.udemy.com)

English language.

Courses on almost any topic: from first aid to financial analytics. Among the instructors are Mark Zuckerberg and Marissa Mayer.

· Skillshare (https://join.skillshare.com)

English language.

Here you can learn literally everything from experts in their field. Marketers, writers, designers and even bakers share their experience; explain it in an accessible and humorous way. There are both paid and free materials.

· CrashCourse (https://thecrashcourse.com)

English language.

The authors of the project are sure that education should be accessible to everyone; therefore, they created a free educational platform. There are many courses: biology, psychology, technology, art

· BBC. Learning English (https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/)

English language.

An excellent resource from the well-known television channel for those who want to improve their language level. There are a large number of materials, including business English.

· Exam English (www.examenglish.com/)

Language: English

The site will help those who are preparing to pass the exam in the format of IELTS, TOEFL, TOEIC, etc.

We hope that it became interesting to you and you are ready to view more than 100 links prepared by us for free courses, and you are also ready to add your information about such courses that exist in your country, region, and continent. We welcome the whole world and all languages!

Join the channel — https://t.me/be2do

View open source and add more courses — https://sites.google.com/view/free-learning-covid19/home