Best Online Websites Where You Can Learn Any Type of Skills

in #learning6 years ago (edited)

Today guys, I am going to tell you about those type of websites, where you can explorer yourself and take your knowledge on the other level. On these types of websites you can learn about any subject or you can learn about new skills. Thousands of free and paid courses are available on these websites. You can browse all courses online on any type. So, Today I am going to tell you about best online education websites.

Udemy:

Udemy is a big platform for people who want learn about new subject or new skills and also wants improve their old skill. On other side if you have wide knowledge about a skill or in any subject you have grip. So Udemy is for you. Udemy is a website where you can sell your skill and a person who wants to learn that skill he pay the price of course and get his desired course. It is type of tuition where you can pay and learn. On udemy you can get cooking courses, Coding courses, computer courses, software developing courses and many others.

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Eren Bali, OktayCaglar and GaganBiyani are the founder of Udemy. In 2007 Earenbali built a software of virtual live classroom in turkey. He Have an idea about to create a market place where people can sell their lessons about any subject or field related. So! Bali shifted to Silicon Valley(America) and after two year he created in 2010 he launched a website with his friends Gaganbiyani and Oktaycaglar.
Founders try to raise funding for website but they was failed to impress investors. They got rejected to 30 times. But they struggled and survived. After some time 2000 Courses created by almost 1000 tutors. On that time Udemy have approximately 10,000 thousand users.
And in 2017 Udemy is world's largest marketplace where you can buy and sell courses of any related field. More than 55,000 Courses are available on udemy in present (2017). Udemy ranked among worldwide websites on 404 number and worlds largest online education website.

Coursera:

Coursera is a online course website, where you can get large number of courses of any subject or skill related.It was founded in 2012. Andrew NG and Daphne koller are the founder of Coursera.org. Coursera work with Organizations and many government, private universities to provide online courses. Cousera has 2000+ courses on it and most of the courses are free. Students who wants to a certificate of course they can pay per class of course, complete assignments and after the examination of related subject or course they can get verified certificate of related university who provide the course content and it is called signature track. After launching of coursera signature track generated $5 million revenue in 5 years.

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In 2014 coursera launched a new feature called specialization track, which provide specialization degree in some subjects and it made more than one million dollar extra revenue.
The total registered users on coursera is $24 million and there is huge amount of people who visits coursera on daily basis. Coursera made money from venture to till october 2015 is $146.1 million. The total partners in coursera.org are number of 149 from 29 different countries. Alexa rank of coursera.org is (652) in the world website ranking.

Khanacademy:
Khanacademy is free educational website founded by a tutor Salman Khan in 2006. Khanacademy is a educational website on Website different short video educational Lectures are available for free. The website content is also available in more than 8 languages.

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Salman khan was tutor of his cousin in 2005 and tuting his cousin via internet. After some time khans other cousin wants to use his service. So, salman khan decided to Publish his content on internet for other people guide. Khan makes tutorials on different skills or subjects and people promote his content.
Khan academy mostly funded by donations from different organizations. The content on khan academy is very useful for improves your skills. On this website 1 Billion lessons delivered, 2 million teachers and 40 million registered users use this platform in one month duration. Khanacademy video lectures are translated in more than 36 languages. Due to this it ranks on 650 number in all over worldwide website ranking.

Lynda:
Lynda.com is an online education website. Website offer online courses videos tutorials on software and marketing skills,SEO,etc. Lynda.com is founded in 2002 by Lynda Weinman and his husband Bruce Heavin.

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Lynda.com is worked with more than 10,000 organization in world. Lynda.com make video courses on different topics like leaders, IT and design pros, project managers, develop software, creative, and business skills. Basically Lynda.com is give trial for 30 days of his site and some limited access to courses but if you want full access you should by its premium or basic package on monthly charges. Lynda.com is paid website but have rare content on it. If you afford You should also try it.
On 9 April, 2015 Linkdin purchase lynda.com in $1.5 billion. Now Lynda branded as '' Lynda.com® A LinkedIn Company''. Microsoft announced that Linkdin is have worth of $26 billion.

EDX:
Edx is MOOC (Massive open online course) website. Edx was created in may 2012. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University was created EDX. More than 70 Organizations, Universities, schools are offer their courses on EDX. On the end of 2016 estimated 10 million students taking 1270 online courses from EDX. Basically EDX is a Non profit organization.

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Edx website is provide university level courses to their worldwide students and most of these courses are free except some. Edx is same as other MOOC platform like udemy, coursera and khanacademy. EDX also provide certificate after completion of course and charge some fee for certification. EDX also offer open source platform that provides other high ranking learning institutions to study free and change different errors in courses. Many higher institutions use open EDX platform .
Edx is also a good website for online education . It ranks in world wide website ranking on 1178.

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