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Top Online Education Platforms You Should Check

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Online learning platforms are essential tools for entrepreneurs to learn new skills and access new knowledge that enables them to thrive on their businesses or tasks. We have reviewed the top online education platforms such as Coursera, Udemy and Skillshare, as well as other education universities that have string online presence.
accordingly to usage and satisfaction criterias.

We have divided the list between Online Courses Platforms, with quicker and informal courses and platforms that have medium and long courses with and without certification.

1. Best Platforms for Online Courses



Thinkific
https://www.thinkific.com/
Full-featured software solution to help you create, deliver, market and sell online courses.

Podia
https://www.podia.com/
An easy to use e-learning platform that helps you to create, host, and sell their lessons. Create online courses having audio files, links, PDF, videos, images, etc. Helps you to manage students with ease.

LearnWorlds
https://www.learnworlds.com/
Helps you to create and sell online courses. It provides responsive templates and styles to build your course.

Udemy
https://www.udemy.com/
Udemy is a great option for casual learners because it contains you can find courses about anything. Udemy is also one of the biggest online course platforms around. Anyone can create a course though, so quality isn’t always the greatest. Also courses are no recognized like in other education websites.

Lynda
https://www.linkedin.com/learning/
Lynda is great to jump-start learning something new or brush-up your skills. Also classes are very practical so there is a great chance that you can use what your learned right away. It is not a a great place to get some academic knowledge or to get to the very specific areas of advanced programming.

Skillshare
https://www.skillshare.com/
Skillshare offeres more than 35,000 courses and it si a great platform to learn a large number of topics from expert teachers. You'll learn via high-quality videos that you can watch at your own pace, and most of the courses taught by Skillshare teachers are excellent quality.

LearnDash
https://www.learndash.com/
Wordpress plugin to run your own online courses. Not a platform per se.

Futurelearn
https://www.futurelearn.com/
Futurelearn is an online education platform with more than 800 courses. Unlimited subscription starts as $25.

Masterclass
https://www.masterclass.com/
MasterClass is an online learning platform where courses are taught by world-famous experts and celebrities. Masterclass is platform for creatives who are interested in personal development and seeking inspiration from the best professionals such as Natalie Portman, Martin Scorsese, Christina Aguilera, Gordon Ramsay or Dan Brown.

Datacamp
https://www.datacamp.com/
DataCamp teaches companies and individuals the skills they need to work with data in the real world. Datacamp is specialized in Data Science topics and works with 2500 companies, 3000 academic organizations and
10+ million learners from 180 countries.

Pluralsight
https://www.pluralsight.com/
Pluralsight has more than 7000+ courses that are taught by one of its 1,500+ expert instructors. Pluralsight is a technology skills platform with a focus on developing the skills of tomorrow.

2. Best Platforms for Online Education



Coursera
https://www.coursera.org/
Coursera hosts courses from prestigious universities and makes many of them available to anyone, for free. So basically you can get all the lectures and reading materials from a real class at, say, Yale University without paying anything at all.

Udacity
https://www.udacity.com/
Udacity is focused on specific job skill development, especially in programming and computer science. Prices end up being a little high if you enroll in a course that takes three or four months (like most do).

Masterclass
https://www.masterclass.com/
MasterClass is an online learning platform where courses are taught by world-famous experts and celebrities. Masterclass is platform for creatives who are interested in personal development and seeking inspiration from the best professionals such as Natalie Portman, Martin Scorsese, Christina Aguilera, Gordon Ramsay or Dan Brown.

EdX (Harvard & MIT)
https://www.edx.org/
edX offers over 3,000+ online courses and 300+ programs that are created by its top partners, 160 institutions in total like Harvard and Berkeley University.

Codecademy
https://www.codecademy.com/
CodeAcademy's contents are interactive and engaging and beginner friendly. Codecademy offers courses to make learning to code and designing websites fun and easy. You can choose to learn specific languages, such as JavaScript, or take a crash course in cybersecurity. Even better, many classes are free, though the paid plan offers additional learning tools, courses, and community support.

Khan Academy
https://www.khanacademy.org/
Khan Academy videos are great for basic concepts. Since the videos are of short duration so it helps to grasp bit by bit. It is good for beginners.

Academic Earth
https://academicearth.org/
Academic Earth describes its service as a collection of free online college courses from the world's top universities.

Stanford Online
https://online.stanford.edu/explore
Online offerings from Stanford University. Stanford Online offers self-paced and session-based courses. Many of these courses you cannot find in Coursera.

Open Yale Courses
https://oyc.yale.edu/
Online offerings from Yale. A lot of videos are actual campus hight quality lectures.

UC Berkeley Class Central
https://www.classcentral.com/university/berkeley
UC Berkeley online offerings. It includes some supplementary lectures, webcasts, and RSS Feeds.

MIT OpenCourseWare
https://ocw.mit.edu/
Offers a variety of free courses. Includes very in-depth course materials on the subjects available. MIT also offers free RSS feeds, a convenient way to continue learning.

Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative
https://oli.cmu.edu/
Carnegie Mellon’s free online education courses. Covers a smaller range of topics, but for the topics that are covered, impressive, in-depth material is available.

Canvas Network
https://www.canvas.net/
Canvas Network specializes in professional development classes for teachers, school administrators, and other education leaders. Topics include leading and applying assessment in student affairs, supporting women in STEM fields, and research data management for librarians. Students can access MOOCs in English, Chinese, Portugese, and Spanish.

Cognitive Class
https://cognitiveclass.ai/
Cognitive Class is an initiative by IBM to spread data literacy through free classes for students and experienced IT professionals. Users can pursue coursework at their own pace with no time restrictions for completion. These MOOCs cover individual topics like Python for data science, reactive architecture, and digital analytics and regression.

Kadenze
https://www.kadenze.com/
Kadenze is a non for-profit company with the support of 18 institutional partners, including Princeton University and the Rhode Island School of Design. This MOOC provider focuses on music, visual arts, creative technology, and other fields of study that lagged behind due to the prominence of STEM education. Students enjoy self-paced, mobile-friendly content that lets them showcase their skills with professional portfolio tools. Most MOOC's are free.


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