Some Websites where You Can find Free Courses and Earn Certificates

Future Learn offers hundreds of rich online courses delivered by reputable universities around the world. Most of these courses are affordable and offer certificates on completion. You can take these courses by either paying for them singularly or by subscribing to monthly/yearly plans where you are offered unlimited access to courses within the time frame.

It is also interesting to know that Future Learn offers some courses completely free to people from certain countries (usually under-developed and developing countries), and you can get a downloadable certificate when you complete them. These courses are the ones with "Free Digital Badges"

If you are interested in these free courses, click here.

Like Future Learn, Cousera offers thousands of Massive Open Online Courses offered by reputable higher educational institutes across the world. And most of them are self-paced so you can study them at your time and space. While many have fees attached to them, they are around 3,000 others that are entirely free. 

To find these courses, click here.

Alison is an education delivery platform that has developed a lot of courses over the years. They offer certificate and diploma courses in different subject areas and disciplines. Their courses are relatively cheap but enriching. However, they also offer free courses that come with certificates of completion.

To check out these courses, click here.

Udemy offers thousands of courses that help you develop your skills. Unlike the above-mentioned MOOC platforms, most of the courses on Udemy are delivered by professional individuals rather than schools. However, these contents are usually rich and sufficient for you to gather in-depth knowledge. 

For most of the Udemy Courses, you will have to pay to gain access to their content, but there are also many others generously offered for free.

To see courses in this category, click here.

If you are looking to develop your leadership or social impact skills, then you should definitely check on YALI courses. The good thing is that they are entirely free.

The Young African Leaders Academy (YALI) is US Government's initiative to raise the future leaders of Africa.

YALI courses are enriching and inspiring. They give you a sense of community and motivate you to social action. To take their courses, you will need to join their network in simple steps, after that, you will then have access to all contents on their site, including their free courses.

To view these courses, click here.