Access free online courses from Harvard, Oracle, Coursera during this coronavirus lockdown

Do you know you can advance your career by taking free online courses during this coronavirus lockdown?

There are several organisations offering free courses such as Harvard Business School, Coursera, Oracle and more.

Harvard Business School

The prestigious Harvard Business School (HBS) is offering free, interactive business lessons you can complete fully online—on your own time—while engaging with a community of learners from around the world.

This HBS offering features business concepts from a selection of HBS Online courses. Explore one or all of the following:

• Entrepreneurship Essentials: Develop a framework for analyzing the essential components of a venture
• Global Business: Examine the theory of government and its implications for your business
• Leadership Principles: Learn how to cultivate and lead high-performing teams
• Management Essentials: Consider decision-making as a process and explore how you can achieve better outcomes
• Sustainable Business Strategy: Understand and communicate the business case for taking purpose-driven action
• Leading in Turbulent Times: Gain insights on how to become a more resilient leader by exploring the courageous leadership of Ernest Shackleton

This free offering consists of approximately 10 hours of material. You can access the lessons online, on your time, between April 9 and June 9, 2020. Learners will be given access to the lessons on a rolling basis every Tuesday and Thursday through Thursday, June 4, 2020.

• If you complete enrollment Thursday through Monday, you will receive lesson access the following Tuesday by 10 a.m.
• If you complete enrollment Tuesday through Wednesday, you will receive lesson access that Thursday by 10 a.m.

So hurry up and apply now while the offer is available

Oracle

Oracle Corporation, an American multinational computer technology corporation, sells database software and technology, cloud engineered systems, and enterprise software products—particularly its own brands of database management systems.

The company is offering free access to online learning content and certifications for a broad array of users for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Oracle Autonomous Database. This program kicked off on Monday, March 30, 2020, and will be available until May 15, 2020.

During this period, any user, including developers, technical professionals, architects, students and professors, will have quick and easy access to more than 50 hours of online training and 6 certification exams.

Oracle University will provide users with free access to an extensive library of materials for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Oracle Autonomous Database, as well as content related to topics such as data science, machine learning, and multi-cloud environments such as integration with Microsoft Azure.

You can start learning by getting a free Oracle Single-Sign-On (SSO) account. And you cn then access learning paths through the links below:

• Oracle Autonomous Database Specialist
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations Associate
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Cloud Operations Associate
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Developer Associate
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Associate
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Professional

Coursera

Coursera is an American online learning platform founded in 2012 by Stanford professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller that offers massive open online courses, specializations, and degrees.

The orgsanisation is offering 100 online courses free, many of them taught by Ivy League schools or offered by companies like Google and Amazon, now through May 31. Learners will get access to all the stuff that’s typically kept behind a paywall: graded homework, projects, and reading material, as well as a certificate of completion they can add to LinkedIn.

The courses span a range of topics — from public health and COVID-19 to coding, mindfulness, updating a resume, and learning how to play guitar.

Here’s how to enroll in Coursera courses for free:

1. Click on the class you’d like to take and make sure that there’s a blue promo banner at the top of the page. If not, refresh the page and let it load fully. 
2. Click the ‘Enroll for free’ button.
3. Select “Purchase Course.” If the promo has applied, it should say below it that “Your promotion will automatically be applied at checkout.” 
4. At checkout, the course should be free and state $0.