Almost all of these courses are completely self-paced, meaning you can start right now. I’ve sorted these courses into the following categories, based on their difficulty level:Ĭourses that are being offered for the first time are marked as. When available, I've also included the course average rating. For this, I leveraged Class Central’s database of over 100,000 online courses. To welcome the new year, I’ve compiled this list of 860+ such free online courses that you can start right now. Today, over 1,200 schools around the world have created thousands of free online courses. Twelve years ago, universities like Stanford and MIT opened up free online courses to the public.