Open Learning


Free Online Courses

IBM SkillsBuild
IBM SkillsBuild provides free training in core technology skills. Learning pathways include Artificial Intelligence. Customer Service, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Web Development, and User Experience Design. IBM SkillsBuild also offers free sustainability courses designed by IBM experts in sustainability and digital fields.

Open Yale Courses
Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials for all who wish to learn. The courses span the full range of liberal arts disciplines, including humanities, social sciences, and physical and biological sciences.

MIT OpenCourseWare
MIT OpenCourseWare is a free and open collection of material from thousands of MIT courses, covering the entire MIT curriculum. Content includes emerging knowledge about the world’s biggest challenges, such as improving equity, tackling climate change, and building the future of computing and artificial intelligence. Content is delivered through dynamic media including video lectures, podcasts, interactive assessments, and new forms like augmented and virtual reality.

Saylor Academy
Saylor Academy®
is a nonprofit initiative working since 2008 to offer free and open online courses to all who want to learn. They offer 150+ full-length courses at the college and professional levels, each built by subject matter experts. All courses are available to complete — at your pace, on your schedule, and free of cost. Categories include Arts and Humanities, Business Administration, Computer Science, ESL, Professional Development, Science and Math, and Social Science.

University of Alberta – Online On-Demand Courses
University of Alberta partners with Coursera to provide free asynchronous open online courses to the public. Current courses include: Arctic: Peoples and Cultures, Astro 101: Black Holes, Black Canadians: History, Presence, and Anti-Racist Futures, Bugs 101, Dino 101, Indigenous Canada, Indigenous Engagement and Partnership Development, Reinforcement Learning, and Science Literacy

University of British Columbia – Office of Professional Learning – Open Learning

Anti-Racism Awareness
Offered through UBC’s Office of Professional Learning, this course will systemically cover and uncover implicit and explicit forms of historic, systemic and institutional racisms and their colonial and intersectional impacts on marginalized peoples and their communities in the past and in contemporary times.

Reconciliation Through Indigenous Education
Offered through UBC’s Office of Professional Learning, this course will help you envision how Indigenous histories, perspectives, worldviews, and approaches to learning can be made part of the work done in classrooms, organizations, communities, and in everyday experiences in ways that are thoughtful and respectful.