In the last few weeks, the CoronaVirus arrived in my country and changed the way I live (hopefully not for too long). I found my self working from home for hours, watching Netflix, and slowly feeling more and more depressed. A few friends recommended for me to take an online course as a way to spend my time at home wisely.

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When the world gives you COVID-19, find an online course.

After searching for hours between hundreds of different online courses, I decided to create a list of 100+ free online courses and share it with the world. There are millions of people that are now working from home, or just chilling, waiting for the CoronaVirus to end. This is for all of us:

Business:

This course will introduce, and help you put to use in your startup, the five models through which your customers can – and will, if you ask them! – fund your business. These five time-tested models have been put to use by entrepreneurial like Michael Dell, Bill Gates, Richard Branson and more.

The aim of the course is to change the conception of brands as being an organisation’s visual identity (e.g., logo) and image (customers’ brand associations) to an experience along “moments-that-matter” along the customer journey and, therefore, delivered by people across the entire organisation.

This course assumes no prior knowledge in law, business or engineering. However, students with backgrounds in all three areas will find useful concepts or ideas in the course on how to protect business innovations using patents.

The approach taken in this course is practical and commercial rather than theoretical. A combination of lectures and case studies help to illustrate the concepts and make the course more interesting.

Learn how to apply tools and techniques to better solve problems, generate ideas, and excel in your chosen career.

This course introduces principles of philosophical inquiry and critical thinking that will help us answer this question. Learn how we can use philosophical ideas to think about ourselves and the world around us. Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies by HarvardX Explore how entrepreneurship and innovation tackle complex social problems in emerging economies. Becoming a Successful Leader (Inclusive Leadership Training) Become a successful leader by learning 21st-century leadership skills and applying concepts to the real world. Enabling Entrepreneurs to Shape a Better World Get equipped with the latest tools and social impact insights to develop your own entrepreneurial potential to solve the world’s biggest problems.

Marketing:

Learn how to grow your blog past 100K monthly visitors and turn thousands of your readers into paying customers.

Taught by three of Wharton’s top faculty in the marketing department, consistently ranked as the #1 marketing department in the world, this course covers three core topics in customer loyalty: branding, customer centricity, and practical, go-to-market strategies.

This course includes everything you need to know to improve and optimize your paid and organic Facebook efforts.

This course is meant for marketers looking for actionable and impactful ways to use this popular social network to grow their business.



Ever wondered why some things become popular, and others don’t? Why some products become hits while others flop? Why some ideas take off while others languish? What are the key ideas behind viral marketing?

This course explains how things catch on and help you apply these ideas to be more effective at marketing your ideas, brands, or products.

You’ll learn how to make ideas stick, how to increase your influence, how to generate more word of mouth, and how to use the power of social networks to spread information and influence.

Social media platforms are driven by digital advertising. As a result, social media advertising is affordable and can be purchased at almost any budget. Targeting options in social media advertising are also sophisticated.

It is possible to tailor ads around a user’s behaviors (e.g., likes, posts and clicks). This course unpacks small business use cases of Facebook, Instagram and Twitter advertising.

From basic campaigns to advanced techniques including lookalike modeling and audience retargeting, this course shows how to effectively advertise on three major social media platforms.

Social media platforms are driven by digital advertising. As a result, social media advertising is affordable and can be purchased at almost any budget. Targeting options in social media advertising are also sophisticated. It is possible to tailor ads around a user’s behaviors (e.g., likes, posts and clicks). This course unpacks small business use cases of Facebook, Instagram and Twitter advertising. From basic campaigns to advanced techniques including lookalike modeling and audience retargeting, this course shows how to effectively advertise on three major social media platforms. Digital Analytics for Marketing Professionals: Marketing Analytics in Practice by Northwestern University In this course, you will learn two of the most effective social strategies used by organizations today. You’ll see real-world best practice examples and learn what metrics they use to gauge success. You will also learn the importance of infographics and the impact a well-designed landing page can have on your bottom line. All of the social skills you have learned thus far will be put into action with a multimedia filter and focus blog that you will create to demonstrate how social can enable real-time marketing results. Shaping Your Professional Brand Skill-building in this course will include asking questions, listening, developing likeability (you’d better be stellar if you’re difficult), identifying cognitive bias, apologizing, receiving apologies, and the basics of whistleblowing. Creative Writing: The Craft of Style Your style is as unique and distinctive as your face, your voice, except that you can choose it, you can can work on it, enhance it. In this course we will introduce aspiring writers to the art of putting pressure on written language. We will study the use of metaphor and imagery, and demonstrate how clarity, grace, and inventiveness in word choice are imperative to a story’s success. Writers will emerge with the revision skills essential to all writers of good stories and good prose.

Can you learn SEO in an hour? Surprisingly, the answer is yes, at least when it comes to the fundamentals. From Rand Fishkin, we present you with a six-part series of roughly ten-minute-long videos designed to deliver core SEO concepts.

This short course is perfect for a wide range of people including beginner SEOs, clients, and team members.

This course gives you the tools to measure brand and customer assets, understand regression analysis, and design experiments as a way to evaluate and optimize marketing campaigns.

You’ll leave the course with a solid understanding of how to use marketing analytics to predict outcomes and systematically allocate resources.

Create your own Marketing Plan for your own product or service idea. In this course, you will learn how to produce arguably the most important marketing tool for any business.

Rather than simply learning the stages of The Marketing Plan, you will be asked each week to complete a peer graded assignment which will help you complete a simplified version of the plan.

Learn how to build and implement a successful organic Instagram marketing strategy.

Harness the power of this visual social network to grow your business and invest in yourself and your career by learning one of the most in-demand skills in digital and social media marketing

Design:

This course will teach you the fundamental principles of graphic design: imagemaking, typography, composition, working with color and shape… foundational skills that are common in all areas of graphic design practice.

In this free online course, you’ll learn about: UX writing processes, testing, research, and best practices. Plus, we’ll show you the tools UX writers can’t live without, the blogs they follow, the podcasts they listen to, give you killer microcopy examples from top companies, and so much more.

Learn the fundamentals of creating web applications that can automatically adapt to a user’s needs and preferences.

A practical introduction to game design and game design concepts, emphasizing the basic tools of game design: paper and digital prototyping, design iteration, and user testing.

This project-based course explores the process of designing and developing educational games, including issues associated with assessment, implementation, and marketing.

In this course, critique is defined as a detailed, objective analysis of a work of graphic design and its effectiveness.

Critique is an integral part of the making process for designers: it’s not just how we determine if a work of design is or is not successful, it’s how we move our work forward.

Critique is also where other voices and opinions can be brought into the design process.

Learn about the evolution of video games from experts at The Strong National Museum of Play, the world’s largest collection of video game materials.

Explore and discover how art changes technology and how technology changes art

Explore key concepts in the new field of design theory. Gain fundamental knowledge of what design is and its relation to culture, economics, and the arts.

If you’ve ever wanted to try digital painting, but you’re intimidated by photoshop, this course is for you! We’ll go through all of the software’s core functions and tools in a series of easy-to-follow lessons that will have you up and running in no time.

This course is designed to teach you the basics of Photoshop, even if you have little to no experience with it, to create profitable web designs that help you stand out from the competition.

In this course you will learn how to create a basic website using Phohoshop and Dreamweaver. You will be able to use Photoshop to create a design for your website and use Dreamweaver to organise the content and make the website fully functional. The website will contain 5 pages : Home, About me, Services, Portfolio and Contact and all the images and support materials are provided. By the end of this course you will be able to make a basic website and put it Live.

After completing this course, you will find yourself confident and after practice, you can use your skills in your professional work. You will feel control on your skills and able to complete more projects without any hassle. Whether learning Photoshop is your personal hobby, professional work or interest, this course will definately help you there.

This course is designed for anyone interested in learning more about modern and contemporary art. Over the next five weeks, you will look at art through a variety of themes: Places & Spaces, Art & Identity, Transforming Everyday Objects, and Art & Society.

In this class you will learn the basic principles and tools used to process images and videos, and how to apply them in solving practical problems of commercial and scientific interests.

This course is designed to help build critical skills that support theme-based teaching practices and build confidence in incorporating modern and contemporary art into interdisciplinary lesson plans.

By addressing themes and questions that arise in relation to modern and contemporary art, the course will help you to think creatively about links to your curriculum and the ways that you can tap into students’ knowledge and life experience.

Gamification is the application of game elements and digital game design techniques to non-game problems, such as business and social impact challenges.

This course will teach you the mechanisms of gamification, why it has such tremendous potential, and how to use it effectively. For additional information on the concepts described in the course, you can purchase Professor Werbach’s book For the Win: How Game Thinking Can Revolutionize Your Business in print or ebook format in several languages.

This course provides an introduction to:

1. Basic concepts of The Strategies and Skills Learning and Development System (SSLD), their relevance for every day relationships and provide advanced concepts for participants who work in fields of social work and health care.

2. Basic practice principles and methods of SSLD, illustrated by relationship management case studies.

3. The SSLD framework for relationship management assessment; N3C (needs, circumstances, characteristics, capacity) and problem translation.

4. Core competencies in the relationship management application of the SSLD system: Observation learning, simulation, real life implementation, review and monitoring.

Programming:

Learn the basics of the world’s fastest-growing and most popular programming language used by software engineers, analysts, data scientists, and machine learning engineers alike.

Over 6 modules you will interactively learn the basics of web programming (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, …) and how to utilize these techniques to build your own software applications for mobile or desktop devices (exemplified with a chat app).

Behind every mouse click and touch-screen tap, there is a computer program that makes things happen.

This course introduces the fundamental building blocks of programming and teaches you how to write fun and useful programs using the Python language.

In this course, you’ll learn the fundamentals of web development, along with best practices and professional problem-solving techniques using Developer Tools.

Learn how to build Web sites using HTML5 and basic CSS, directly from W3C, creator of the latest Web standards.

Creative Coding will introduce you to the fundamental concepts of object-oriented programming, using code as a method for self-expression in a variety of media, such as 2D graphics, animation, image, and video processing. Principles of Machine Learning: Python Edition by Microsoft Get hands-on experience building and deriving insights from machine learning models using Python and Azure Notebooks.

Learn basic computer programming skills and master the art of writing C/C++ programs to solve real-world problems. Computer Science: Programming with a Purpose by Princeton University This course covers the first half of our book Computer Science: An Interdisciplinary Approach (the second half is covered in our Coursera course Computer Science: Algorithms, Theory, and Machines). Our intent is to teach programming to those who need or want to learn it, in a scientific context. Code Yourself! An Introduction to Programming by the University of Edinburgh Have you ever wished you knew how to program, but had no idea where to start from? This course will teach you how to program in Scratch, an easy to use visual programming language. More importantly, it will introduce you to the fundamental principles of computing and it will help you think like a software engineer. Visualizing Data with Python by IBM Data visualization is the graphical representation of data in order to interactively and efficiently convey insights to clients, customers, and stakeholders in general. Analyzing Data with Python by IBM Data visualization is the graphical representation of data in order to interactively and efficiently convey insights to clients, customers, and stakeholders in general. Introduction to R for Data Science by Microsoft Learn the R statistical programming language, the lingua franca of data science in this hands-on course.