The best way to choose a free Online Course is to choose one that other many people have took and enjoyed.
The best way to choose a free Online Course is
to choose one that other many people have took and enjoyed.
The technical Talk has been maintaining a list of these Best Open Online Course ever since they rose to popularity back in 2012. According to internet
2020 annual report on Best Open Online Course, 180M
students have took at least one course and over 950+ universities have launched
16,300+ courses.
To help learners decide which course to took, The Technical Talk publishes a number of different rankings based on the thousands of reviews written on
“ The Technical Talk” and publishes websites.
In this ranking, we take a different approach. Instead of ranking
courses according to reviews, we rank by the number of students enrolled in the
online course. In some cases, the top reviewed courses are also the courses
with the large enrollments. In other
cases, courses with large enrollment have only average reviews. This shows that
there are popular courses that miss internet reviews..
By The Numbers
Over First 100 most popular
online courses of all time included represent 100 million enrollments. The
first 10 courses in the list below each have over a 1 million enrollments.
Coursera co-founder Andrew Ng’s Machine Learning course
is the best popular course of all time with over 4 million enrollments.
The average enrollment for the the Top 100 is at 390k and the middling
at 265k.
100 Most Popular Online Courses of All Time
Interest in online course and
online education has never been greater. If you’re looking
for a new online course, take a look at these free courses that millions of
students have already took.
1. Machine
Learning from Stanford University
2. The
Science of Well-Being from Yale University
3. Learning
How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects from University of California, San Diego
4. CS50’s
Introduction to Computer Science from Harvard University
5. Programming
for Everybody (Getting Started with Python) from University
of Michigan
6. Introduction
to Computer Science and Programming Using Python from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
7. English
for Career Development from University of Pennsylvania
8. IELTS Academic Test Preparation from University of Queensland
9. COVID-19
Contact Tracing from Johns Hopkins University
10.
TOEFL® Test Preparation: The Insider’s
Guide from ETS
11.
Successful Negotiation: Essential
Strategies and Skills from University of Michigan
12.
Neural Networks and Deep Learning from deeplearning.ai
13.
Chinese for Beginners from Peking University
14.
Financial Markets from Yale University
15.
Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Excel from Microsoft
16.
CS50’s Web Programming with Python and JavaScript from Harvard University
17.
First Step Korean from Yonsei University
18.
Algorithms, Part I from Princeton
University
19.
Python Data Structures from University
of Michigan
20.
Speak English Professionally: In Person, Online
& On the Phone from Georgia Institute of Technology
21.
Technical Support Fundamentals from Google
22.
English Grammar and
Style from University of Queensland
23.
Introduction to Linux from Linux Foundation
24.
Write Professional Emails in English from Georgia Institute of Technology
25.
Entrepreneurship
in Emerging Economies from Harvard University
26.
AI For Everyone from deeplearning.ai
27.
The Data Scientist’s Toolbox from Johns Hopkins University
28.
Introduction to Psychology from Yale University
29.
Data Science: R Basics from Harvard University
30.
R Programming from Johns
Hopkins University
31.
Grammar and Punctuation from University of
California, Irvine
32.
Introduction to Data Science in Python from University of Michigan
33.
Excel Skills for Business: Essentials from Macquarie University
34.
Stanford Introduction to Food and Health from Stanford University
35.
English for the Workplace from British Council
36.
Buddhism and Modern Psychology from Princeton University
37.
HTML, CSS, and Javascript for Web Developers from Johns Hopkins University
38.
The Science of
Happiness from University of California, Berkeley
39.
Introduction to Philosophy from University of Edinburgh
40.
Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies from Princeton University
41.
Fundamentals of Graphic Design from California Institute of the Arts
42.
Using Python to Access Web Data from University of Michiga
43.
Marketing in a Digital World from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
44.
Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals: Core
Infrastructure from Google
45.
Basic English 1: Elementary from King’s College London
46.
Contract Law: From Trust to Promise to Contract from Harvard University
47.
The Architectural Imagination from Harvard University
48.
Basic Spanish 1: Getting Started from Universitat Politècnica de València
49.
Justice from Harvard University
50.
What is Data Science? from IBM
51.
Fundamentals of Neuroscience, Part 1: The
Electrical Properties of the Neuron from Harvard University
52.
Child Nutrition and Cooking from Stanford University
53.
Finanzas personales from Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de México
54.
Rhetoric: The Art of Persuasive Writing and
Public Speaking from Harvard University
55.
Social Psychology from Wesleyan
University
56.
Programming Foundations with JavaScript, HTML and
CSS from Duke University
57.
A Life of Happiness and Fulfillment from Indian School of Business
58.
Introduction to HTML5 from University
of Michigan
59.
CS50’s
Introduction to Game Development from Harvard
University
60.
Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter
Tuning, Regularization and Optimization from deeplearning.ai
61.
Programming for Everybody (Getting Started with
Python) from University of Michigan
62.
Introduction to Programming with MATLAB from Vanderbilt University
63.
Modern Art & Ideas from The Museum of Modern Art
64.
Work Smarter, Not Harder: Time Management for
Personal & Professional Productivity from University of California, Irvine
65.
Seeing Through Photographs from The Museum of Modern Art
66.
Primeros Auxilios Psicológicos (PAP) from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Autonomous University of
Barcelona)
67.
Algorithmic Toolbox from University of California, San Diego
68.
Financial Engineering and Risk Management Part I from Columbia University
69.
Mindfulness for Wellbeing and Peak Performance from Monash University
70.
Using Databases with Python from University of Michigan
71.
Convolutional Neural Networks from deeplearning.ai
72.
Competitive Strategy from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
München
73.
Start Writing Fiction from The Open University
74.
Introduction to Negotiation: A Strategic Playbook
for Becoming a Principled and Persuasive Negotiator from Yale
University
75.
HTML5 and CSS
Fundamentals from World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
76.
Academic and
Business Writing from University of California, Berkeley
77.
Introductory Human Physiology from Duke University
78.
Psychological First Aid from Johns Hopkins University
79.
Introduction
to Project Management from University of Adelaide
80.
Introduction to Psychology from University of Toronto
81.
Initiating and Planning Projects from University of California, Irvine
82.
Project Management: The Basics for Success from University of California, Irvine
83.
Statistics and R from Harvard University
84.
Design Thinking for Innovation from University of Virginia
85.
Introduction to Java Programming: Starting to
code in Java from Universidad Carlos iii de Madrid
86.
Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning
and Discover Your Hidden Potential from McMaster
University
87.
A Beginner’s Guide to Writing in English for
University Study from University of Reading
88.
Introduction to Mathematical Thinking from Stanford University
89.
Machine Learning Foundations: A Case Study
Approach from University of Washington
90.
Introduction to C++ from Microsoft
91.
Contabilidad para no contadores from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
92.
Excel: Fundamentos y herramientas from Universitat Politècnica de València
93.
Structuring Machine Learning Projects from deeplearning.ai
94.
How to Write an Essay from University of California, Berkeley
95.
CS50’s Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
with Python from Harvard University
96.
Crash Course on Python from Google
97.
Game Theory from Stanford University
98.
The Science
of Everyday Thinking from University of Queensland
99.
Gestión de
Proyectos de Desarrollo from IDB ( Inter-American
Development Bank )
100. Data Science:
Machine Learning from Harvard University
