Perhaps you have a little extra time on your hands and would like to experience some online learning? Maybe you want to enhance your career or maybe explore an interest you have been curious about? Here is a great way to engage your mind while we wait out this shelter-in-place order.

We have stumbled upon a few and there are still more out there
—but this is a great start. Some of these courses are always free and others are being offered at no-cost in response to the Coronavirus.

The Great Courses is a video-on-demand service that encourages lifelong learning and personal enrichment. With thousands of in-depth videos taught by the world’s greatest professors, you’ll always have something fascinating to learn about.

Right now they are offering a free month of courses when you start a free trial. Listen or watch on your TV, laptop, tablet, and smartphone.

Urban Farm’s Victory Garden Challenge 2020 provides free online classes on gardening, growing food, and self-reliance. Your challenge: Attend every class & get your garden planted!

Join the Urban Farm U team daily for free online classes. They are offering these classes for 30 days so that people worldwide can feel empowered to take control of our health and food supply.

Free online photography classes in April from Nikon
Now through April 30th, all 10 classes available at the Nikon School can be streamed for free. The classes are normally priced anywhere between $15 to $50 each.

Each class is taught by a professional photographer and provides in-depth lessons to help you get better at taking photos. Some courses cover Nikon-specific products, but many of them teach you the fundamentals of photography.

Plus, there are several websites that always offer free, online university-level classes from top educational institutions. With some, you can even work towards a certificate or a degree.

EdX
Access 2500+ Online Courses from 140 Top Institutions.

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.

Open Culture
Take online courses from the world’s top universities for free. You will find 1,500 online courses from universities like Stanford, Yale, MIT, Harvard, Oxford, and more.

Coursera
Build skills with courses, certificates, and degrees online from world-class universities and companies. Hundreds of free courses give you access to on-demand video lectures, homework exercises, and community discussion forums. Paid courses provide additional quizzes and projects as well as a shareable Course Certificate upon completion.