eLearning is becoming more and more popular, it’s the future of learning. Students can access a plethora of courses online. It’s a digital era, where distance plays a big role in our everyday lives.

Technology took the world by storm and the learning industry is no exception.

According to Guide2Research, the global eLearning market is projected to reach $336.98 billion by 2026. 

I’ve compiled a list of online learning portals where you can learn anything from sciences, mathematics, design, crafts, law, and so much more.

There are University portals, colleges, and courses created by people who are practitioners and have experience in a field.

Are you a student? a parent? an aspiring entrepreneur? a freelancer? do you want to expand your horizons? Do you want to master an art or a science?

Let’s dive right in!

DistanceLearningPortal

Main slogan: Accept the challenge. Discover thousands of online courses worldwide.

Categories:

• Agriculture & forestry
• Applied sciences & professions
• Arts, design, and architecture
• Business & management
• Computer science & IT
• Education & training
• Engineering & technology
• Environmental studies & earth sciences
• Hospitality, leisure, & sports
• Humanities
• Journalism & media
• Law
• Medicine & health
• Natural sciences mathematics
• Social sciences

How it works:

1. Explore: browse more than 11,000 online programmes from universities all over the world
2. Compare: Make a wishlist of your favourite programmes, check your fit with them, and read what other students are saying
3. Decide: Now that you have your top programmes shortlisted, you can pick the ones that fit you the best
4. Apply: When you feel confident about your online programme choice, you can apply directly via Studyportals

About: DistanceLearningPortal is a department of StudyPortals.

Studyportals began as a spin-off from a couple of large international study associations. It was born out of frustration, a total lack of information and overview of the fast-growing number of international Master’s programmes in Europe. In 2007, Mastersportal.com was developed and proved to be a roaring success. Soon after, Bachelorsportal.com, PhDportal.com, Shortcoursesportal.com, and Distancelearningportal.com followed.

In 2019, we helped over 36 million students around the world to explore study programmes and make an informed choice, throughout over 200,000 courses at 3,750+ educational institutes across 110 countries.

Lemon Learning Modules Online

Main slogan: The courses reflect the priority areas of the Education Programme of the Council of Europe and topics range from democratic competencies to digital citizenship, from media literacy to bullying.

Learning courses:

• Competences for Democratic Culture (New)
• Media and Information Disorder (New)
• Cooperation vs Competition
• Communication dans la classe démocratique
• Social media as a pedagogical tool
• Intercultural School Development
• Assessment in a Democratic Classroom
• How to Welcome Newcomers to the Classroom?
• Council of Europe’s Digital Citizenship Education
• Beyond Bullying (for young learners)
• The Key to Media Literacy (‘Keys’ series – short online course)
• The Key to Competences for Democratic Culture (‘Keys’ series – short online course)
• The Key to Preventing Cyberbullying (‘Keys’ series – short online course)
• The Key to Dealing with Controversial Issues (opening in winter 2021)
• The Key to Democratic School Governance (opening in winter 2021)

About: Council of Europe, Avenue de l’Europe F-67075 Strasbourg Cedex, France – Tel. +33 (0)3 88 41 20 00

SOLP (Search Online Learning Portal)

Categories:

• High-tech
• High-tech crime webinars
• High-tech crime micro-webinars

About: by Moodle, a learning platform designed to provide educators, administrators and learners with a single robust, secure and integrated system to create personalised learning environments. A learning management system.

SpecialOlympics

Main slogan: This new resource provides educational, interactive courses for coaches and health professionals.

Categories:

• Sport
• Health
• Protective behaviors
• Global youth engagement
• US- unified champion school

About: The Online Learning Portal creates specific learning training programs for various learning groups, including training modules, assessments, and other resources. Supported by Bank of America, Toyota, Golisano, Gallagher, EU.

Athena

Main slogan: Athena is an e-Learning platform that aims to educate and certify.

Stats: 11 courses, 396 students, 40 hours, 3 partners.

Courses:

• E-STEAM: Equality in Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics

• Up to youth: Promoting Future Digital Social Entrepreneurs

• YECh: Youth Volunteering Certification

• YOUTH RE WORKING RURAL

• Transforma – Training on e-Commerce in rural areas

• Dental Hygienist – Managing the enterprise world!

• Social ENTrepreneurship for IMmigrants

• Soft Skills – Evaluation Tools

• Youth Entrepreneurial Skills

• Social Economy Consultant

• Gender Equality and Entrepreneurship for All

• Social inclusion of Immigrants – Tools

• Social Entrepreneurship for Young Unemployed

• RESTART – Training Toolbox on Industry 4.0

• Push – CPD materials for Pop-up shop entrepreneurs in the creative sector

• Startup Academy – Training on entrepreneurial skills and competences

• Youth Entrepreneurial Skills – Young Entrepreneurs

About: 169 Iroon Politechniou str. 41223, Larissa, Greece. Partners: OpenMelon, OnlineManagementSolutions, ESYNE Omospondia.

Udemy

Main Slogan: Learn on your schedule. Anywhere, anytime. Start learning today!

Stats: 130,000 online courses, 35M learners, 57K instructors, 400M course enrollments, 110M minutes of video, 65+ languages, 7,000+ enterprise customers, 80% of Fortune 100 companies trust Udemy for employee upskilling.

Categories:

• Development
• Business
• Finance & accounting
• IT & Software
• Office productivity
• Personal development
• Design
• Marketing
• Lifestyle
• Photography & video
• Health & fitness
• Music
• Teaching & academics

About: As a child in a Turkish village, Udemy’s founder saw first-hand what’s possible when learning is within reach. Eren Bali found opportunities online and was inspired to help others do the same.

ShawAcademy

Main slogan: Learn the skills you need to succeed. Join over 12 million successful graduates and take our FREE 4-Week course today.

Stats: 100+ courses, 1000+ hours of content, 12M+ successful graduates.

Categories:

• Graphic design
• Digital marketing
• Photography
• Sports & exercise nutrition
• Financial trading & investment
• Nutrition
• Photoshop
• Social media marketing
• Project management
• Leadership & management
• Mobile app dev
• MS Excel
• Fitness & weight loss
• English for beginners
• Makeup, nails, and beauty
• Cryptocurrency
• Start your own business
• Gold trading

About: In 2012 1 course was offered, 700+ students enrolled. Since then, the company evolved. 

College Libraries Ontario

The Learning Portal

Main slogan: The Portal provides shared access to resources from all Ontario Colleges.

Categories:

• Learning online
• Where do I begin?
• Study skills
• Research
• Writing
• Digital skills
• Digital citizenship
• Career
• Math

About: The Learning Portal / Le Portail d’Apprentissage is a collaboration between the College Libraries Ontario (CLO), several Ontario college learning centres, and the Ontario College Library Service (OCLS).

ICSI

The Institute of Company Secretaries of India

Main slogan: E-Learning today has taken the world by storm and helped make learning on-the-go, a norm. Today, learners have access to multiple forms of content that aim to engage the learner.

Categories:

• Foundation
• Executive
• Professional
• Theme article
• Economic and commercial laws
• GST
• Direct tax
• Company law
• Accounting
• Intellectual property right
• Economics
• Securities law
• Information technology
• Labour law
• Insurance
• Company law corner

About: ICSI HOUSE, 22 Institutional Area, Lodi Road, New Delhi – 110003. Students can contact our helpline number 0120-4522000 after 72 hours of submission of query/Grievance.

DayStar University

Main slogan: Daystar University seeks to develop managers, professionals, researchers, and scholars to be effective, Christian servant-leaders through the integration of Christian faith and holistic learning for the transformation of church and society in Africa and the world.

Courses:

• CETL
• DLPDI
• Arts & humanities
• Business & economics
• Communication, languages, performing arts
• Human and social science
• Science, engineering, health
• Library
• Workshop training
• eLearning training
• Law
• Nursing

About: P.0.Box 44400-00100 Nairobi, Kenya. Phone : +254 709 972 000.

200+

Business & Marketing Tools Collection

Work management, tracking, organizing, payments, accounting, Google, keyword, market, and competition research, SEO, analytics, and related, marketing & advertising, web development, website monitoring, domains & website hosting, coding, and related, design & multimedia, marketplaces, entrepreneurial communities, hiring & outsourcing.

Nato

Main slogan: Joint Advanced Distributed Learning.

Courses:

• Kick-start to ADL
• Critical Infrastructure
  Awareness Course
• HQ Resolute Support
• Combating Trafficking in Human
  Beings
• Maritime Functional
  Area Services Pre-Study
  Course
• Human Trafficking:
  Causes, Consequences, and
  Counter-Strategies
• Introduction to NATO for
  TACEVAL
• Introduction to NATO
  Contracting 110
• and more

About: A NATO-Military, Governmental or NATO official email is required for registration. In 2003, the NATO Atlantic Council formed Allied Command Transformation to “transform” NATO and ensure it remain relevant to the world situation and nations’ requirements. Part of this mandate was to ensure NATO’s education and training was effective, efficient and reflected academic and industry advancements.

Harvard Business School Online

Main slogan: Learn online from the leaders in business education. Expand your business skills and engage with a global network of learners with our flexible, online courses.

Categories:

• Business essentials
• Leadership & management
• Entrepreneurship & innovation
• Strategy 
• Analytics
• Finance & accounting
• Business in society

About: Harvard Business School Online launched as HBX in 2014 to deepen the School’s impact and broaden its reach, all while staying true to the HBS mission: to educate leaders who make a difference in the world. The nuance? Now we could reach those leaders wherever they are—in the world, in their careers, and in their lives. Since, HBS Online has educated 100,000-plus learners from more than 175 countries via our innovative online platform.

EduWW

Sapere Aude

Main slogan: Education World Wide* combines top up education programs including complete education path from Elementary school, through Middle and High School to the Bachelor and Master levels Higher Education.

Programs:

• School (elementary, middle, high, for athletes, benefits & certifications, university entry level 3)
• Business academy (1st and 2nd year business, 1st and 2nd year IT & computing, 3rd graduation year, 4th postgraduate year)
• Intl’ students language preparation (ESOL English language, for beginners)
• IT courses

About: Education World Wide USA LLC registered school & entity in Weston, Florida for the United States of America, with the school code 6567. Education World Wide, brand of Can-Standard Ltd in Belgrade, RS for EU, Europe, Asia, Africa and Middle East. Education World Wide Diplomas and credentials originate from the USA, and are accepted globally, under the EQF in the European Union & Internationaly under ISCED 2011- UNESCO classification.

Neapolis University Pafos

Main slogan: The Distance Learning Unit (DLU) at Neapolis University uses the most modern electronic technology for a platform that offers students postgraduate programmes of study in contemporary specializations.

Courses:

• Business administration
• Business administration in tourism
• Digital marketing
• Educational psychology
• European politics and governance
• Information systems and digital innovation
• Intl’ and EU business law
• Intl’ relations, strategy, and security
• Modern and contemporary Greek and European history
• Public administration in educational administration
• Public administration in general administration
• Public administration on health care management
• Theology

About: General Enquiries (Cyprus). T: +357 26843300. F: +357 26931944. Neapolis University Paphos, 2 Danais Avenue, 8042, Paphos, Cyprus.

EUIPO

European Union Intellectual Property Office

Main slogan: At EUIPO we believe that a learning environment drives continuous improvement in performance. This is why the Academy’s first priority is to accompany our staff in a career-long learning path, as well as building EUIPO’s capacity and reputation as a centre of excellence in IP.

Stats: 970 available courses, 488 courses with certificate, 23,000+ active users. 

Categories:

• Intellectual property
• Human resources
• Information technology
• Languages
• General management
• Other professional knowledge
• Corporate competencies

About: Established in May 2011, the Academy of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) encompasses all the learning and educational activities for our staff, staff of the intellectual property (IP) offices of the European Union (EU), EUIPO’s users, academia and the public at large. Avenida de Europa, 4, 03008 Alicante, Spain, Information centre: +34 965 139 100.

LINCS

Main slogan: Take free online courses related to adult learning.

Categories:

• Career pathways
• Disabilities and equitable outcomes
• English language acquisition
• Integrating technology
• Science
• Teaching and learning
• Facilitated

About: The Literacy Information and Communication System (LINCS) is a national leadership initiative of the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE) to expand evidence-based practice in the field of adult education.

MichiganVirtual

Main slogan: Education is changing faster than ever. Discover new models and resources to move learning forward at your school.

Courses for students (293):

• World languages
• Social studies
• Science
• Mathematics
• Other
• English language arts
• Visual & performing arts
• Health & physical education

Courses for educators (223):

• Pedagogical practices
• Administration
• teacher advocacy
• Compliance
• Literacy essentials
• Subject-specific
• Social-emotional learning
• Classroom management
• Counselors
• Early childhood
• Special education

About: Michigan Virtual™ has been working hard to provide a path to the future for students and educators since 1998. As a nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation focused on education, we believe that brilliance resides in all of us, ready to change the world with next big idea.

Swayam

Main slogan: Acquire skills that meet your needs. Faculty development and student mentoring.

Categories:

• AICTE – NITTTR
• Annual refresher programme in teaching (ARPIT)
• Architecture and planning
• Education
• Engineering and technology
• Humanities & arts
• Law
• Management & commerce
• Maths & sciences
• NPTEL domain
• School

About: SWAYAM is a programme initiated by Government of India and designed to achieve the three cardinal principles of Education Policy viz., access, equity and quality. The objective of this effort is to take the best teaching learning resources to all, including the most disadvantaged. SWAYAM seeks to bridge the digital divide for students who have hitherto remained untouched by the digital revolution and have not been able to join the mainstream of the knowledge economy.

BEBS

Barcelona Executive Business School

Main slogan: We place enormous value in people – our students, our professors and our staff are all part of the BEBS community, which is inclusive, open, professional, ambitious and joyful. We want to change the world, and you?

Stats: 80+ nationalities, average age 31 years old, 20+ languages.

Courses:

• Intl’ Logistics and supply chain
• Intl’ business innovation
• Intl’ project management
• Intl’ eSupply chain management
• Intl’ business management
• Intl’ tourism and hospitality management
• Intl’ business management and innovation
• Human resources management
• Leadership and talent management
• Operations management and logistics
• Business administration

About: Although founded in 2014, BEBS comes from and with a history of academic excellence. The school has been founded by pioneers in the education sector, who wanted to create an educational institution which is not only academia, but also a modern business hub!. Carrer de Torroella Montgrí 23 BJ , 08027, Barcelona. Phone: +34 937 888 599.

OnlineAcademies

Main slogan: Learn with us, today.Distance learning with a difference.

Categories:

• Animal care and farming
• Beauty
• Childcare, teaching assistant, and education
• Complementary health and therapies
• Conservation and the environment
• Counselling, psychology, and CBT
• Criminology and security
• Customer service
• Diet and nutrition
• Employability skills
• English and maths
• Health and safety
• Health and social care
• Horticulture and gardening
• Lifestyle and hobbies
• Management, business, and accounting
• Miscellaneous
• Project management
• Spirituality
• Sports and fitness
• Web, IT, and graphics

About: Online Academy work with Training Qualifications UK (TQUK). Phone: (+44) 01202 113 211. Registered Office: Unit 8 & 9 St Stephens Court, 15-17 St Stephens Road, Bournemouth, BH2 6LA.

KhanAcademy

Main slogan: For every student, every classroom. Real results. We’re a nonprofit with the mission to provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.

Courses:

• Math: Pre-K – 8th grade
• Math: get ready courses
• Math: high-school and college
• Science
• Arts & Humanities
• Test Prep
• Computing
• Economics
• Reading & language arts
• Life skills 

About: What started as one man tutoring his cousin has grown into a more than 150-person organization. We are developers, teachers, designers, strategists, scientists, and content specialists who passionately believe in inspiring the world to learn. 

Supporters (Bank of America, CollegeBoard, Ann & John Doerr, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Fundacao Lemann, and more).

GlobalOnlineAcademy

Main slogan: Learning Unbound. Global Online Academy is a nonprofit organization that reimagines learning to empower students and educators to thrive in a globally networked society.

Courses:

• Art, media, and design
• Mathematics & technology
• Science & health
• Social sciences
• World languages
• Flex courses (opportunities for high school students to build modern learning skills)
• Learners for life series (A series of courses designed to build lifelong learning skills)
• Summer courses (Flexible, meaningful, and passion-based courses to enrich your summer)
• Educator courses (designing for online learning, CBL – educator-designed to co-designed, CBL – from time-based to performance-based, designing for learning – math, designing for learning – science, designing for equity)

About: GOA is an international consortium of leading schools who want their students and educators to discover new ways to learn.

In 2011, 10 founding schools launch GOA. Reimagining learning began.

SkillShare

Main slogan: Explore your creativity. Join Skillshare to watch, play, learn, make, and discover.

Categories:

• Animation
• Design
• Illustration
• Lifestyle 
• Photo & film
• Business
• Writing
• Technology

About: Skillshare is an online learning community with thousands of classes for creative and curious people, on topics including illustration, design, photography, video, freelancing, and more. On Skillshare, millions of members come together to find inspiration and take the next step in their creative journey.

CreativeLive

Main slogan: Answer your creative calling. Master your craft, your passion, or something new with creative classes taught by the world’s best.

Stats: 1500+ curated classes, 650+ world-class instructors, and 10+ million students.

Categories:

• Photo & video
• Money & life
• Art & design
• Craft & maker
• Music & audio
• On-air free online classes 

About: In 2009, Chase Jarvis and Craig Swanson started kicking around the idea of making workshops to inspire and support people with the tools to develop their creative skills.

Coursera

Main slogan: Your Course to Success. Build skills with courses, certificates, and degrees online from world-class universities and companies.

Stats: 3,900+ courses & specialization, 20+ degrees & MasterTrack certificates, 13+ professional certificates, 70M+ students, 2,400+ coursera for business customers.

Categories:

• Arts & humanities
• Business
• Computer science
• Data science
• Information technology
• Health
• Math and logic
• Personal development
• Phusical science and engineering
• Social sciences
• Language learning

About: Coursera partners with more than 200 leading universities and companies to bring flexible, affordable, job-relevant online learning to individuals and organizations worldwide. 

Coursera was founded by Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng in 2012 with a vision of providing life-transforming learning experiences to learners around the world.

Teachable

Main slogan: Share what you know. Create online courses and coaching services. Transform your experience and know-how into a thriving knowledge business.

Stats: 100K+ creators, $500M in courses and coaching

Categories:

• Art
• Careers
• Marketing
• Music
• Food & drink
• Photo & video
• Home & garden
• Design
• Productivity
• Travel & languages
• Writing
• Lifestyle & hobbies
• Course creation
• Business
• Tech & programming
• Health & fitness
• Workshops

About: From the Bay area to Brooklyn, Fedora to Teachable, one person to over 150–our story is one of transformation too. Late one night in 2013, our founder and CEO Ankur Nagpal, put the finishing touches to what would become the predecessor of Teachable. A recent graduate of UC Berkeley and the newest resident of New York.

PearsonOnlineAcademy

Main slogan: Pearson Online Academy is an accredited, online private school for students in grades K-12 brought to you by the experts in virtual learning. We empower students worldwide to achieve academic excellence through our affordable, high-quality online education that emphasizes college prep.

Categories:

• Lower school
• Middle school
• Upper school
• College prep
• Counselling & college advisors
• Individual courses
• Summer school

About: 10960 Grantchester Way Columbia, Maryland 21044, 1-888-260-4159.

InternationalOpenAcademy

Main slogan: Your one-stop shop for personal development. Discover a freelance career, passion project or new hobby. The possibilities are endless

Categories:

• Arts & crafts
• Beauty & fashion
• Business essentials
• Food
• Home
• Hospitality
• Pet care
• Social & digital marketing
• Teaching & languages
• Technology
• Trending
• Wellbeing

About: With more than 1 million learners from 100 different countries we are expanding by 33% annually. Despite this growth, we never lose sight of quality and enjoy a 5-star satisfaction rating, with more than 90% of our users willing to recommend us to a friend. 

K12

Main slogan: Education for anyone. Let’s get back to learning.

Categories:

• Tuition-free online public school (high-school, middle school, elementary school, kindergarten, online home school, STEM education, special education services)
• Tuition based online school and courses (online private school, online live tutoring, adult education programs, online summer school programs & courses)

About: Since 2000, K12 has been a leader in K–12 online education, putting quality hands-on and online curriculum directly into the homes of the students and families we support. And as of December 16, 2020, K12 Inc., is becoming Stride, Inc. As a Stride company, we’ll continue serving families and students of K12-powered schools and will expand our reach to offer learning solutions to students of all ages! 

AccelerateOnlineAcademy

Main slogan: Your complete solution for an excellent education. Browse our extensive course catalog and enroll online today!

Categories:

• High-school
• Middle school
• Elementary school
• Career electives
• Elective
• Health & PE
• Language arts
• Math
• Science
• Social studies
• World languages

About: Accredited by Cognia, formally known as AdvancED Accreditation, and many high-school courses are University of California a-g approved. All the advanced placement courses are College Board approved. 

3655 W Anthem Way, Suite A-109237, Anthem, AZ 85086.

edX

Main slogan: restless learners change the world. Learn from more than 160 member universities.

Stats: 546K+ people learning.

Categories:

• Architecture, art & culture, biology and life sciences
• Business & management, chemistry
• Communication, computer science
• Data analysis & statistics, design
• Economics & finance, education & teacher
• Training, electronics, energy and Earth sciences
• Engineering, environmental studies, ethics
• Food & nutrition, health & safety
• History, humanities, language
• Law, literature, math
• Medicine, music, philanthropy
• Philosophy, physics, science
• Social sciences

About: edX is the trusted platform for education and learning. Founded by Harvard and MIT, edX is home to more than 20 million learners, the majority of top-ranked universities in the world and industry-leading companies. As a global nonprofit, edX is transforming traditional education, removing the barriers of cost, location and access. 

Founder & CEO: Anant Agarwal.

Alison

Main slogan: empower yourself. Free online courses from the world’s leading experts. Join 18 million learners today.

Course types: 

• Certificate
• Diploma
• Learning paths

Categories:

• IT
• Languages
• Science
• Health
• Humanities
• Business
• Marketing
• Math
• Software development
• Lifestyle
• Life sciences
• Skilled trades
• Operations
• Finance
• Software engineering
• Health care

About: Alison is one of the world’s largest free learning platforms for education and skills training. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone.

Alison was founded in Galway, Ireland, in 2007 by Mike Feerick. 

Final Words

There you have it, a list of online learning portals you can use to sharpen your skills, knowledge, and shape your future.

Keep on learning, studying, experimenting, and most importantly, applying what you learn, so you can develop, grow, and gain a competitive edge in this multifaceted world.

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