Best 5 Sites like Coursera for Online Learning

Overview

The internet is not only for watching movies, TV shows, playing games, chatting with others, purchasing or selling products, etc, but also for learning knowledge, all kinds of knowledge. And anyone can use the online knowledge to get a high-quality education, obtain a certificate if they put their minds to it. When learning knowledge, many users will choose Coursera. Coursera is a popular online learning website which works with universities and other organizations to provide online courses from engineering, medicine, biology to business, computer science, etc. However, it is not possible for Coursera to provide all needed video courses. So, if you can not find your needed video courses on Coursera, you can try to find them on other Coursera alternative websites. The following article just lists the best 5 sites like Coursera to satisfy your online learning needs.

1. Udemy

Udemy is one of the best Coursera alternatives. Udemy is mainly designed for professional adults. On Udemy, users can learn many online courses with fields in Development, IT&Software, Design, Business, Marketing, etc. Unlike Coursera, at Udemy, anyone can become a teacher if he has some skill to teach. Udemy provides free courses and the paid ones and users can choose the ones they need. If they become one Udemy subscriber, they can download Udemy paid courses for offline playing within Udemy App.

2. edX

edX hosts a wide range of university-level courses because edX is linked with many most prestigious schools. Except for prestigious schools, edX also provides courses from nonprofit organizations and corporations. edX provides courses in hundreds of different fields, like Music, Business, Medicine, etc.

3. Khan Academy

At the beginning, Khan Academy is just known as a YouTube channel for basic math videos, but soon, Khan Academy is known as a website for various educational videos, like the math video, the science video, the economics video, the humanities video, etc. Most of Khan Academy online courses are provided in English, but they are also available in other languages, like Spanish, Russian, Chinese, German, Italian, etc. Khan Academy online courses are not available for download.

4. Alison

If you are looking for a free education website, then Alison is just what you need. Alison courses are more about workplace-based skills. Besides, on Alison, users can also access to courses published by Columbia University, Cambridge University, etc. Users can also get a certificate after finishing the courses successfully. Alison requires users to study certain hours to get a certificate.

5. Udacity

Udacity is a for-profit educational organization. Users can enjoy all Udacity courses for free, but need to pay if they want to get help for an assessment of their work, get help from the instructors, verified completion certificate, etc. Udacity hosts more technology and computer courses than others.

Conclusion

We must say that there are many other online learning websites for users to get their needed learning courses, but the above five ones are recommended by many users as the best five. Almost all the above five online learning websites support users to watch the online videos, but they do not video download, or need users to pay some fee to become the subscribed users before the downloading or only support users to watch the downloaded videos within the App.

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