Free Courses & Certifications

The English for Doing Business in Asia- The speaking program will introduce the applicants to the various strategies and models for developing and building strong business communication skills in English for establishing and doing business in the continent of Asia. 

The online programme will further be guiding students for the course of seven weeks on various topics that pertain to developing a strong base and foundation in the domain of English. In the English for Doing Business in Asia- Speaking by edX, the participants will be guided to conduct the business proceeding in multi-sectoral settings. 

The program has also been crafted to make the students aware of the different cultural norms and practices across the continent of Asia. The course has been structured with two primary goals- the first includes the non-English speakers to get introduced to the language of English and develop skills in it and the second to make them aware of the globalization and intercultural impact on the English language. There are two enrolment options for learners to join the programme, namely, the verified and free audit modes. In the verified mode, the students can access the programme unlimitedly and get a certificate of completion. In the free mode, they can audit it for a limited duration. 

The Disciplined Approach to Social Entrepreneurship course offered by edX is a program for individuals who are passionate about creating social impact and justice to transform society. This course allows candidates from various fields to improve their knowledge, skills, and tools to change society. 

Disciplined Approach to Social Entrepreneurship Certification also gives realistic learning with in-depth interviews with four successful social entrepreneurs. They are Selco in India, Green Match in Australia, Friendship in Bangladesh, and Edible Garden City in Singapore. These interviews will increase the social vision of the candidates who attend this course. They also develop the quality to balance the social aspirations and to achieve scalability with a minimum cost of operation. 

Disciplined Approach to Social Entrepreneurship Training also offers a certificate that is verified and carries the institution logo and the signature of the instructors. This certificate can be showcased on the job platforms like LinkedIn or add it to their resume. This gains more value to the candidates’ profile which creates many career opportunities. They are also provided with scholarships to fulfill the dreams of the students who really want to learn the course. From among the 2 tracks, the candidates may choose any one for completing the course. In the audit mode, the candidates shall have free access to the course materials without any fee, but there will be no certification awarded. Similarly, in the verified track, the candidates will have unlimited access to the course materials and will also be able to obtain a certification by paying a nominal fee.

The Launching New Ventures is an amateur-level program that aims to transform any individual who is seeking an opportunity in entrepreneurship and create a venture. The candidate will learn how to do a concept proposal and launch that as a business venture. The candidate will learn about the key steps involved in the process of venture creation including marketing, fundraising, and feasibility analysis. The candidate will learn about the examples of several entrepreneurs who are successful all around the world through animated lectures and inspiring interviews. 

The student will be able to gain an overview of the strategy involved in entrepreneurship with insights and how they can apply it to their own entrepreneurship ventures regardless of the industry, level, or location of the enterprise proposed. The Launching New Ventures course is developed as a seven-week program and is self-placed for student comfort. The students need to put in an effort of 2 to 3 hours a week in order to complete the coursework comfortably for the verified certificate.

The candidates can enrol in the self-paced course in two different modes; verified and audit. The audit mode is free of cost and provides only a limited duration of access to the programme. 

The course Enabling Entrepreneurs to Shape a Better World certification gives the opportunity to all the participants to explore the work of the business and grow their careers in it. Learners need to spend 7 weeks completing Enabling Entrepreneurs to shape a better world course. The enrolled candidates should give at least 4-6 hours per week. Enabling Entrepreneurs to Shape a Better World online course offered here is an online learning program. The program is designed by edx in collaboration with Social Entrepreneurship Akademie for a better learning experience. 

Verified certification for Enabling Entrepreneurs to Shape a Better World online course is available after the required fee payment by the candidates. Students will receive certification with the logo of the Social Entrepreneurship Akademie institution. Participants should study with concentration and consistency to acquire all the information required for working as a professional in the field. Candidates will learn about Enabling Entrepreneurs to shape a better world online course curriculum from the experienced faculty. Participants may be able to learn about all the tips and tricks needed for development in the field.

Edx provides two different modes to join the self-paced course; verified and free audit. In the free audit mode, the learners will be given access to the programme only for a limited duration. 

Coursera’s Act on Climate: Steps to Individual, Community, and Political Action course is aimed at individuals who wish to learn, understand, and address the problem of climate change as individuals, or in partnership with organisations, communities, and political leaders. This course hosts an array of erudite climate change experts, who recite their experiences in dealing with the problem of climate change.

The Act on Climate: Steps to Individual, Community, and Political Action programme primarily focuses on translating the theoretical learnings and findings in the field of climate change into actionable reforms in areas of food, transportation, energy, and built environments. The course is co-developed and taught by Michaela Zint, Professor of Environmental Education and Communication at UMich. It also features video lectures by UMich students.

Moreover, along with the video lectures, the course also provides a ton of reading material to peruse. A fair share of practice exercises will also put your knowledge to test. Also, the training is a 100 percent online experience, which comes with flexible deadlines. Upon course completion, you will receive an industry-recognized Coursera certificate, which you can easily showcase on your resume or LinkedIn profile.

Netherlands’ leading technological academic institution, the Delft University of Technology presents before you the Zero-Energy Design: an approach to make your building a sustainable programme. The course curriculum features content emphasising the need for implementing active and passive measures to reduce energy consumption in buildings. The seven-week-long training from edX entails a weekly commitment of four to six hours from candidates.

The curriculum focuses extensively on zero-energy designs through thermal insulation, sun shading, heat pumps, photovoltaic panels, and more. Students who want to pursue the edX Zero-Energy Design online programme must be in the first year of pursuing a bachelor’s degree in any technical study. Learners will access various real-life case studies of buildings with zero energy climate concepts.

Candidates will master the art of erecting energy-efficient buildings in different climates. Applicants who finish the Zero-Energy Design: An Approach to Make Your Building Sustainable online certification course and pay a nominal charge will get a verified edX accreditation signed by their instructors. The intermediate-level programme is self-paced and allows students to learn through lectures with video transcripts in English. The two options to enrol in this programme are paid with the certificate and free audit. In the free audit mode, the candidates can get access to the course only for a limited period. 

KU Leuven has developed this certificate programme on As above, so below: An introduction to soils, ecosystems and livelihoods in the Tropics. This course will explore the variability of nature in soil properties for the sustainable form of management in farms and ecosystems. This course will help in understanding the soil properties that vary in different tropical landscapes and ecosystems. This will help the candidate understand the properties are affecting both livelihood and biodiversity. 

The candidate will be exposed to learn how to use the soils in a healthier way with basic knowledge of Lifesciences. The virtual form of excursions exposes the soils in five types and uses real-life examples using videos and appropriate case studies. As above, so below: An introduction to soils, ecosystems and livelihoods in the Tropics certification course spans a duration of 7 weeks with inputs from 3 instructors. With a required student dedication of just 4 to 6 weeks, the candidate will be able to complete the coursework with an intermediate difficulty level.  This self-paced course offers two options for learners to enrol in the course, paid with certificate and free without the certificate. In the free mode, the learners will have access only for a limited period. 

The Making Sense of Climate Science Denial course enriches the communication arena and dives deep into climate change, the psychology of denial, climate controversy, global warming, and future impediments. The myths regarding climate change, its causes, factors and the reactions of the public to scientific data are included in the Making Sense of Climate Science Denial course.

This course is structured in a way so that the learners can easily understand, comprehend, critically analyse and learn to debunk climate myths. This course is verified by the University of Queensland. The instructors in this course have years of observant experience in this field. The course is packed with lecture series, quizzes, Assignments, readings, activities, video interviews and interactive sessions with peers. This is a self-paced online programme. The learners can avail financial assistance if it is needed.

The certificate gained through this course is of high value.  The certificate will have a logo of the verified institution and will be signed by its instructors. The course is free but for certification, a certain amount needs to be paid. The certificate is easily shareable on online platforms such as Linkedin. If learners want only to audit through the free mode, they will have access to the course only for a limited period. 

This Organizational Design: Creating Competitive Advantage course, appropriate for administrators and pioneers in moderate size to huge associations, you will become familiar with the standards of an authoritative plan and how planned components can be utilized to acquire the upper hand. edX will talk about different hierarchical structures and how a viable authoritative plan can help accomplish an organization's objectives and goals in a manageable way. Since associations include shared exercises, in the Organizational Design: Creating Competitive Advantage program you'll additionally figure out how to make appropriate control frameworks, dynamic cycles, and culture and announce connections to guarantee that the endeavors of a different arrangement of representatives are reasonably planned to accomplish the hierarchical reason. 

Organizational Design: Creating Competitive Advantage training is a six-week course. During every week you will learn through contextual investigations, addresses, and allotted readings. The course will help you gain from each other by taking an interest in conversation gatherings and you will test your learning through tests and evaluated appraisals.

The Global Business Strategy program will be teaching candidates to capitalize and grab opportunities pertaining to the global market and leverage the environment to access the maximum long-term value. The potential opportunities that are there in the marketing sphere related to the global domain will be covered so that the applicant can anticipate any change and recognize the potential benefit out of it.

The Certification Course on Global Business Strategy by edX will be covering the threats that are related to the competitive and global environment and analyze the situation to form and phrase a strategic alliance. The ways to formulate an organizational structure that will further allow it to grow locally and create an impact on the global domain will also be covered in the program. During the seven-week Global Business Strategy course, students will be formulating their own strategies based upon their experience to help their organization grow. The Global Business Strategy training will make the students successful business leaders.

The ‘Genomics: Decoding the Universal Language of Life’ online certification course is a study of the genetic systems and the genetic structures that comprise the genome to facilitate the production of sustainable food substances, fuel products, environmental protection, and in the context of disease prevention and treatment. This health research course is provided by the Coursera online education platform for an estimated period of seven weeks. The course curriculum is developed by the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, for the students to complete the course within thirty-six hours.

In this online course, students are led by Dr. Gene E. Robinson, the Director at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, and the Swanlund Chair at the Center for Advanced Study Professor of Entomology and Neuroscience.

The ‘Genomics: Decoding the Universal Language of Life’ online training program enables students to receive the industrially significant course certificate at the end of the program. 

The ‘Useful Genetics Part 1: How Our Genes Shape Us’ online training is organized for the students to enable them to gain insights on the various aspects of genetics and to study the effects of DNA transformation and inheriting genes in our personal and societal dimensions. This certification course is provided by the Edx online education portal and the course curriculum is designed and offered by the University of British Columbia. The students can complete the course modules in an estimated time of seven weeks with spending six to eight hours per week in the self-paced online learning program.

The instructor for this medicine course is the zoology professor, Rosemary Redfield who will guide the students into acquiring theoretical and practical perspectives of the genetic concepts. The ‘Useful Genetics Part 1: How Our Genes Shape Us’ certification course ensures the participants of the program receive a course certificate at the end of the program after finishing the study, graded assessments, and the final exam.

Coursera’s Age of Jefferson course provides a comprehensive look into the life and times of Thomas Jefferson. The seven-part course, with each part comprising lectures, readings, and a tour of institutions and places pivotal to the life of Jefferson, is a place for anyone looking to know the historical figure on a personal level.

The institutional tours offered by Coursera’s Age of Jefferson course are quite in-depth, with an abundance of knowledge regarding the work done by Jefferson in Monticello Estate and the University of Virginia, and how the work brought about a significant change in his life and philosophy. The curriculum reading also includes a lot of letters and other writings penned by Thomas Jefferson. The syllabus also covers the famous letter the historical figure wrote to James Madison, named “the earth belongs to the living.”

Also, the Age of Jefferson online programme is entirely an online learning experience, with no strict lecture timings, allowing you to tackle the course at your own pace. The certification training, alongside the video lectures, also has a ton of reading material paired up with weekly graded tests to put your newly acquired knowledge to test. On course completion, you will be rewarded with an industry-revered certificate by Coursera.

The Cosmopolitan Medieval Arabic World Certification Course is a 100% online course that explores the historical significance of the Arabic Medieval World. The history course available on the Coursera platform has a flexible structure that is convenient for candidates. The course will take the candidates to the Middle Ages and marketplaces of Cairo along with historiographical debates.

The Cosmopolitan Medieval Arabic World Training will be led by Prof Dr. Petra Sijpesteijn of Leiden University. The course will be taught through video lectures, reading materials, and engaging practice exercises to enhance the knowledge of learners. Once all course procedures are completed, candidates will receive The Cosmopolitan Medieval Arabic World Certification by Coursera and Leiden University.

The Star Trek: Inspiring Culture and Technology programme explains how Star Trek, which was initially a failed series, became supremely influential. Today, this cult favourite encompasses additional television series, feature films, and a world of fan memorabilia and conventions. Undertaking this seven-week course, you will understand why people resonate with Star Trek, how it has inspired generations to ask essential questions about their identity and relation with their surrounding world. 

Through the Star Trek: Inspiring Culture and Technology certification syllabus, you will explore how Star Trek’s motion pictures and live-action tv shows impacted audiences globally. Offered by the Smithsonian Institution - the curriculum features trained instructors to explain the relationships between Star Trek and culture, History, society, and technology. The training also includes clips from the films and shows, experts’ opinions, and debate sessions with fellow fans. 

EdX’s Star Trek: Inspiring Culture and Technology course is an introductory free programme under the ‘History’ category. It features no enrolment prerequisites, a self-direct schedule, and a purchasable e-certificate. The institute offers this curriculum under the CBS Consumer Products’ license. 

The Spain of Don Quixote program is an immersive and informative experience provided to the candidates by edX through various means of video lessons, digital maps, and illustrated texts for a better learning experience. The Spain of Don Quixote is in association with Universidad Autonoma de Madrid and it takes the candidates on an exploration of Spain from the ancient era.

The program remains concentrated on the history of Spain between two periods- Baroque and Renaissance and sets the mood of how the culture used to be. It talks about the rich and cherished Spanish literature and art where many artists (Lope de Vega, Cervantes & Velazquez) received excellence in history’s first world empire, the monarchy of Spain.

The Spain of Don Quixote deals with the trendy fashion of Spain at that time in courts of Early Modern Europe, Spanish military and political machinery of the period, and American printing centers. The Spain of Don Quixote program describes the celebration of the huge cities, theatrical production, real geography, and polarised society of Spain and lets the candidates take a tour of the Spanish Golden Era. For candidates to get unlimited access they will have to pursue this course in the verified track. In case the candidates have chosen the audit track they will only be receiving limited course access.

Renewable energy sources are becoming increasingly popular and emerging as alternatives to fossil-based fuels and conventional raw materials. That is primarily due to the looming threat that is climate change. Microorganisms and their unique properties can be used to convert organic waste into biomaterials and biofuels. The Industrial Biotechnology programme will equip you with the tools and insights to design these sustainable biotechnological processes.

By joining the Industrial Biotechnology certification course, you can learn industrial biotechnology basics from six experienced course leaders. You will learn how to design the fermentation process and produce fuels, foodstuffs, and useful chemicals. This programme aims to encourage you to develop your very own sustainable biotechnological strategy and assess its performance.

The Industrial Biotechnology online course is the product of a collaboration between three very esteemed institutions: the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), the University of Campinas, and the international BE-Basic consortium. It is a seven-week, intermediate programme in Engineering. A verified, purchasable course completion certificate is also available to showcase your skill if you have opted for the verified track. In the free mode, the students can audit the programme for a limited duration. 

The course is offered by edX in association with the Delft University of Technology which provides a verified certificate of completion to candidates who meet all requirements and complete the course. The Next Generation of Infrastructure certification is duly signed by an instructor and has a logo of the institute which makes it of great merit value. The course revolves around infrastructure wherein candidates get an opportunity to examine and analyze the hardships that arise from the social science and engineering perspective. Next Generation of Infrastructure by edX course will also talk about the hardships that such systems pose for management, governance, and decision-making. Along with this, on the social science front, candidates will also study the ethical considerations and security, analytical tools, lack of infrastructure, etc while learning the drawbacks of such systems. The key method of studying will be evaluation and analysis to study the interdependencies of these fields. 

The Next Generation of Infrastructure certification program is 7 weeks long and candidates are advised to devote around 6-8 hours to it per week to complete it successfully. This course is an intermediate-level course, so students must have some prior basic knowledge. The candidates may learn at their own pace but they will have limited access if they have chosen the audit mode. If the candidates have selected the verified track they will surely receive unlimited access to the course materials.

TARS is a new-age distributed microservice applications framework developed to support multiple programming languages like C++, Java, Golang, PHP, Node.js, and Python, allowing enterprises and developers to quickly build reliable and stable applications that run at scale. This Building Microservice Platforms with TARS course is an introduction to the TARS framework and microservices for beginners.

The Building Microservice Platforms with TARS programme by edX will show you why an increasing number of companies and developers have opted for TARS to build their services. The course is ideal for enterprise managers who wish to explore internal technical architectures, as well as engineers working in microservices. Besides, anyone interested in software architecture will benefit significantly from this course.

Moreover, Building Microservice Platforms with TARS online programme also offers a certificate experience for those who wish to put their skills to work and make a career in it. The programme is offered by edX in collaboration with The Linux Foundation. According to the preferences, candidates will be able to select either the verified track or the audit track. For free limited access, the candidates can pick the audit mode whereas for the unlimited but paid version, the candidates can pick the verified track.

Intellectual Property is a new and exciting field in Law. It involves debate around copyright, trademark policies, and their alternatives. The Intellectual Property Law and Policy: Part 2 certification course is the second part of a two-part course on edX. It aims to train candidates in the ins and outs of IP laws and trademark policies. 

Created by the prestigious University of Pennsylvania for edX, the Intellectual Property Law and Policy: Part 2 training is seven weeks long. The curriculum delves into the technical aspects of the modern realities of intellectual property rights. It also looks at future alternatives to policies that shape our lives in the contemporary world. 

Through the Intellectual Property Law and Policy: Part 2  online course, candidates will learn about some seminal legal cases and consider their real-world implications. Led by their instructor, R. Polk Wagner, the programme will take candidates through some critical IP laws and concepts. Moreover, the University of Pennsylvania offers a verified certificate at the end of the training. By enrolling in any one of the tracks namely verified and audit the students may learn the programme. During the audit track, learning is free for a limited time period whereas during the verified track learning is unlimited but paid.

The EU and Human Rights certification course by edX discusses the EU’s potential to impact human rights, not just for its citizens, but also for people everywhere. Both positive and negative impacts have been discussed. You will also learn about the businesses, NGOs, or other international organisations (UN, Council of Europe, etc.) that the EU could engage with to promote human rights all over the world.

The EU and Human Rights certification syllabus will cover the policy sectors impacted by the EU. These sectors include development, social policy, migration, trade, and international crisis management. The objective is to help you understand how the EU, by itself, or in partnership with other local or global, state or non-state bodies, can uphold, protect, and promote human rights globally.

The EU and Human Rights programme, developed by KU Leuven, contains interviews with experts and exercises to test what you have learned. The instructors are all leading academics from renowned institutions all over the world. If you study four to six hours a week, you can comfortably complete the human rights course within seven weeks. By enrolling in any one of the tracks namely verified or the audit track, the students may learn the programme. During the audit track, learning is free for a limited time period whereas during the verified track learning is unlimited but paid.

The programme has been formulated to provide the candidates all the necessary information required to propagate strategies related to marketing domain, which in return would help the company and the institution to grow. The course will be covering the ways to develop products that would meet the demands of customers and help create demand and awareness for those items and products to encourage more sales.

The Certification Course on Marketing Management by edX over the course of seven weeks will be covering topics namely- creating marketing base, problem solving and marketing skills. The course lays great emphasis on the subject of “Business and Management”. Furthermore, the sessions will be conducted in English and will provide live classes and assignments. The course also has the provision of “upgradation” where the students can apply for securing a certificate. The techniques to target and identify customers and also comprehend their demands will be covered.

Materials have always been the cornerstone in a society's development. The Materials Science and Engineering online course aim to teach about various electrical, magnetic, mechanical, and optical properties of materials. Through this course, you will be acquainted with the most recent accomplishments in the field of Materials Science and Engineering.

The Materials Science and Engineering certification syllabus will cover various concepts linked to mechanical, computing, civil, chemical, electrical and bioengineering. You will study how material processing like heat treatment and mechanical working can impact a materials’ performance and properties. This online programme will help you build a strong basis for further engineering education.

Moreover, the Materials Science and Engineering certification course is designed specially to impart self-paced learning, allowing candidates to study comfortably. All video lectures are imparted in English and provide English transcripts as well. While the course is available for auditing through a free enrolment procedure, candidates can also purchase a verified certificate by paying a specified fee.  

The coursework of the Introduction to numerical analysis course by Coursera has been structured to give the learners an insight into the various concepts of Numerical analysis and to help them develop their career in that direction. This course aims at enabling the candidates to have a detailed understanding of the process of numerical computing which requires assembling building blocks into computational pipelines and a basic understanding of its numerical methods, their strengths, limitations, failure modes and weaknesses. 

Through this coursework, the participants will be trained to analyze and develop the primary characteristics of numerical algorithms. They will be able to represent them with diverse classic problems in numerical mathematics. The process of implementing constructions into working prototypes of numerical code will also be taught. This course is being instructed by Evgeni Burovski who is an assistant professor at the School of Applied Mathematics at HSE.  The instructor ensures to deliver the programme in an interactive manner by including discussion forums, projects, e-learning videos and practice exercises as a part of conducting classes. This course is being offered by the National Research University Higher School of Economics on Coursera.

Harvard University is offering the Fat Chance: Probability from the Ground Up course in partnership with edX. It is a seven-week programme that will cover probability and statistics up to the college level. Thorough video lectures support the programme curriculum. It will enable you to have a deep understanding of what lies at the core of quantitative reasoning.

By taking the Fat Chance online training programme, you will rise over learning through rote formulae and term memorisation. You will hone your basic counting skills, along with their application to probability problems. The curriculum of the programme will also take you through the concepts of expected value, normal distribution, and variance. 

The probability from the Ground Up course by edX will train you to solve even the most complex problems based on stats and probability. Being a self-directed trainer, you can take your time to practice and learn the concepts as per your schedule. Also, as Harvard University is offering the course, the instructors will belong to the premier institution. The programme has two enrolment options; paid certificate mode and free audit mode. In the free audit mode, the students can get access to the programme only for a limited duration. 

The Automata Theory online course is an advanced computer science course developed by Stanford University. It covers finite automata, regular languages, regular expressions, non-deterministic and deterministic automata. Your instructors will also discuss closure properties, decision properties, and pumping lemma for regular and context-free languages.

The Automata Theory certification syllabus covers the Tuning machine. It is a kind of automaton that defines recursively enumerable languages (languages defined reasonably by a computing device of any sort). The curriculum then moves on to the theory of intractability. You will gain expertise in NP-complete problems, a class of intractable problems, as well.

The video lectures are delivered in English, and to help learners follow along, English transcripts are also available. Though it is a self-paced learning programme, you should ideally be dedicating five-to-ten hours to the Automata Theory training. After completing the seven-week training, you can purchase a shareable completion certificate from edX. It will help you highlight all your achievements and increase your employability. Edx has 2 tracks namely the verified track and the audit track which allows the students to finish off the course. During the verified track, the candidates will get unlimited but paid access to the course materials. In the audit track, the candidates will be getting limited but free access to the course materials. 

Learn about the fundamental mathematical concepts of kinematics, calculus, projectile motion, trigonometric functions, vector calculations, and much more, in the A-level Mathematics for Year 13 Course 2 certification course. The Imperial College of London has designed this course to help you succeed in an A-level maths exam with an A* grade. 

The A-level Mathematics for Year 13 Course 2 syllabus delves deeply into topics like general motion, projectile motion, integration and differentiation methods, graphs, diagrams, mathematical symbols, equilibrium, and more, to polish your skills and make you fully prepared to pursue STEM degrees. This is a comprehensive training program that lasts for seven weeks. 

During the A-level Mathematics for Year 13 Course 2 online course, candidates will acquire 360-degree theoretical knowledge and develop skills like problem-solving, fluency, and confidence. Created by the Imperial College, this course is available on edX for free. Candidates can also opt for certification at the end of the programme. The course is self-paced but there is a time limit until which the course remains accessible in the audit mode. But in the case of the verified track, the candidates will have unlimited access but they need to pay some amount.