COURSERA  -  Take the World's Best Courses, Online, For Free.

Official site: https://www.coursera.org/

Education Level  maximum

University

Certification Availability:

Certificates

Course Categories:

221  courses. Classes offered on Coursera are designed to help you master the material. When you take one of our classes, you will watch lectures taught by world-class professors, learn at your own pace, test your knowledge, and reinforce concepts through interactive exercises. When you join one of our classes, you'll also join a global community of thousands of students learning alongside you. We know that your life is busy, and that you have many commitments on your time. Thus, our courses are designed based on sound pedagogical foundations, to help you master new concepts quickly and effectively. Key ideas include mastery learning, to make sure that you have multiple attempts to demonstrate your new knowledge; using interactivity, to ensure student engagement and to assist long-term retention; and providing frequent feedback, so that you can monitor your own progress, and know when you've really mastered the material.

 We offer courses in a wide range of topics, spanning the Humanities, Medicine, Biology, Social Sciences, Mathematics, Business, Computer Science, and many others. Whether you're looking to improve your resume, advance your career, or just learn more and expand your knowledge, we hope there will be multiple courses that you find interesting.

About Coursera

We are a social entrepreneurship company that partners with the top universities in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free. We envision a future where the top universities are educating not only thousands of students, but millions. Our technology enables the best professors to teach tens or hundreds of thousands of students.

Through this, we hope to give everyone access to the world-class education that has so far been available only to a select few. We want to empower people with education that will improve their lives, the lives of their families, and the communities they live in.

Udacity

Official site: https://www.udacity.com

Education Level  maximum

Equivalent to FETAC: Level 5

Equivalent to NQF (UK): Level 3

Other: Third Level

Age: 18+ Years

Certification Availability:  

Mastery / Certificates / Credits

Course Categories:

1.       Introduction to Computer Science

2.       Introduction to Physics

3.       Introduction to Statistics

4.       Visualizing Algebra

5.       College Algebra

6.       Statistics

7.       Algorithms

8.       Differential Equations in Action

9.       Web Development

10.   HTML5 Game Development

11.   Software Testing

12.   Software Debugging

13.   Programming Languages

14.   Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

15.   Interactive 3D Graphics

16.   Intro to Theoretical Computer Science

17.   How to Build a Startup

18.   Design of Computer Programs

19.   Intro to Parallel Programming

20.   Functional Hardware Verification

21.   Artificial Intelligence for Robotics

22.   Applied Cryptography

UDACITY

We're on a mission to bring accessible, affordable, engaging and highly effective higher education to the world. We believe that higher education is a basic human right, and we seek to empower our students to advance their education and careers.

EdX     -    EdX is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts and is governed by MIT and Harvard.

Education Level  maximum

certificate of mastery

Official site: https://www.edx.org/courses

Courses:

1.       Introduction to Biology - The Secret of Life MIT

2.       Electricity and Magnetism - MIT

3.       The Ancient Greek Hero – Harvard

4.       Justice- Harvard

5.       Human Health and Global Environmental Change- Harvard

6.       Foundations of Computer- Berkeley

7.       Circuits and Electronics MIT

8.       Introduction to Statistics: Descriptive Statistics- Berkeley

9.       Artificial Intelligence – Berkeley

10.   Software as a Service- MIT

11.   The Challenges of Global Poverty – Berkeley

12.   Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Computation- Berkeley

13.   Introduction to Solid State Chemistry - MIT

14.   Introduction to Computer Science and Programming –MIT

15.   Copyright – Harvard

16.   Software as a Service,  I and II - Berkeley

17.   Foundations of Computer Graphics- Berkeley

18.   Introduction to Computer Science– Harvard

19.   Health in Numbers: Quantitative Methods in Clinical & Public Health Research- Harvard

20.   Introduction to Computer Science and Programming- MIT

21.   Artificial Intelligence – Berkeley

22.   Software as a Service-– Berkeley

23.   Circuits and Electronics- MIT

About  edX

EdX is a not-for-profit enterprise of its founding partners Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that features learning designed specifically for interactive study via the web. Based on a long history of collaboration and their shared educational missions, the founders are creating a new online-learning experience with online courses that reflect their disciplinary breadth. Along with offering online courses, the institutions will use edX to research how students learn and how technology can transform learning–both on-campus and worldwide. Anant Agarwal, former Director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, serves as the first president of edX. EdX's goals combine the desire to reach out to students of all ages, means, and nations, and to deliver these teachings from a faculty who reflect the diversity of its audience. EdX is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts and is governed by MIT and Harvard.

DEUTSCHE WELLE

Free German courses

Official site   http://www.dw.de/learn-german/german-courses/s-2547

Education Level :

Level  A1-C

Certification Availability:  Zertifikat

Learning and teaching German

With the free German courses from Deutsche Welle, you can choose the learning style that suits you best: e-learning at the computer, with short videos, audio courses or podcasts, or with texts and worksheets you can print out. Select from courses for beginners, intermediate learners, and advanced learners. German language teachers are welcome to use our multimedia material in their lessons. The Course Finder helps you choose the best format for each level.

EVICAB 

European Virtual Campus for Biomedical Engineering

official site:  www.evicab.eu

Education Level :

Examination and assessment results are expressed in many different grading systems in Europe. To help institutions interpret the grades awarded to students, the ECTS grading scale is used. The European Credit Transfer System ECTS is based on the student workload required to achieve the objectives of a programme, objectives preferably specified in terms of learning outcomes and competences to be acquired. Grades will be converted according to the grading system in your own university.

ABOUT : European Virtual Campus for Biomedical Engineering, EVICAB

 EVICAB is a platform which offers a high-quality educational program on Biomedical Engineering for students in the European Union and worldwide.

EVICAB includes Lecturing Courses given by the best international scientific and pedagogical experts in this field. The courses are available in various modalities and are provided with additional pedagogical material. The courses are recognized by European universities. EVICAB is available free of charge.

ALISON : Free Online Courses and Certification

Official site:  www.alison.com

Education Level  maximum

Equivalent to FETAC: Level 5

Equivalent to NQF (UK): Level 3

Other: Third Level

Age: 18+ Years

Certification Availability: diploma, certificate

Course Categories:

1.       Business and Enterprise Skills

2.       Financial & Economic Literacy

3.       Health & Safety & Compliance

4.       Health Literacy

5.       Personal Development & Soft Skills

6.       Arabic Language Skills

7.       Digital Literacy & IT Skills

8.       Diploma Courses

9.       English Language Skills

10.   French Language Skills

11.   German Language Skills

12.   Health & Safety (Irish Legislation Only)

13.   Irish Language Skills

14.   Schools Curriculum

ABOUT ALISON*

is the world's leading free online learning resource for basic and essential workplace skills. ALISON provides high-quality, engaging, interactive multimedia courseware for certification and standards-based learning.

The mission of ALISON is to enable anyone, anywhere, to educate themselves for free via interactive, self-paced multimedia. It is our belief that through ALISON, the cost of access to high-quality education can be removed.

Through the ALISON learning platform we can assist people around the world in educating themselves, thereby creating a more equitable and sustainable global society.

We believe that all certifiable or standards-based learning for every subject can be made available for free online. We also believe that Article 26 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights which states "Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free..." will, through ALISON, become a reality.

* ALISON stands for "Advance Learning Interactive Systems Online".