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Want to stock up on knowledge during the community quarantine? Here's where you can learn for free online. Check out our list of sites and apps with free courses HERE:

Want to learn new things while staying in the comfort of your home? Well, that's now possible. Thanks to the existence of free online education. There are now many sites and apps that offer free online courses, and some even have verified certificate courses.

The Internet has blessed people with so many benefits ranging from being able to communicate with anyone in the planet at any given time; to doing research without physically going to a library, to conducting business transactions online, to sharing photos, videos, and other important files; and even allowing anyone to work or study from home and so on and so forth.

That's why nowadays, there's almost no excuse to not be productive, especially if you have an internet connection. You'll basically never run out of things to do when you're online, regardless if you want to be entertained, do business or earn money, or want to acquire more information.

So, if you're hungry for more knowledge, whether it is to further your career or simply satisfy your curiosity, then you should definitely take up a free course online. Listed below are some of the websites that offer free online education. See which one suits your needs.

1. Google Digital Garage

Google offers over a hundred free courses that include certification. Data Tech, Digital Marketing, and Career Development are some of the categories you can choose from. All you need to do is sign in to your Google account and choose whatever course you want to take.

2. Coursera

Coursera offers free online courses that you can finish in a day. The estimated duration of each course is around eight hours or less. Among their top-rated courses are about Sustainable Development Goals, Nutrition and Lifestyle in Pregnancy, Introduction to International Criminal Law, and Psychological First Aid.

3. Alison

Alison offers self-paced free online courses with certificate. They have over 1,000 certificate courses you can choose from, and each class takes less than three hours to complete.

4. Harvard University

Yes, Harvard University offers free online courses, with an option to pursue a verified certificate for an additional fee. The duration of their courses varies from four weeks to 15 weeks. And their courses fall under the following categories: Art and Design, Humanities, Health and Medicine, Justice, Science, Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Programming, Business, Social Sciences, and Education and Teaching.

5. iTunes U

Taking a free online course on iTunes U is as simple as listening to a podcast. But their courses are more structured and have academic content from top universities like Harvard, Yale, and Stanford.

Found the site where you want to learn from for free? Good. Now, go and enroll in your chosen course and surprise everyone with the new knowledge - or certificate - that you've acquired.