10. FutureLearn & Alison(www.futurelearn.com)

FutureLearn was launched with 12 university partners, seeking those who “consistently rank at the top end of the league tables”. FutureLearn is a digital education platform founded in December 2012. The company is jointly owned by The Open University and SEEK Ltd.

9.Open Culture Online Courses(openculture.com/freeonlinecourses)

Open Culture was founded in 2006.Open Culture brings together high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community.It’s all free. It’s all enriching.

8.Codecademy(codecademy.com)

Codecademy was founded in August 2011 by Zach Sims and Ryan Bubinski.free coding classes in 12 different programming languages including Python, Java, JavaScript  Ruby, SQL, C++, Swift , and Sass.

7. Stanford Online(online.stanford.edu)

Stanford Online is an educational initiative launched by Stanford University which offers a variety of professional education opportunities. Stanford University created an open access OpenEdX platform which offered a variety of Massive Open Online Courses in 2013 but that site is no longer accessible.

6. MIT OpenCourse Ware(ocw.mit.edu/)

The project was announced on April 4, 2001.The program was originally funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and MIT.2,400 courses were available online.

5.iTunesU Free Courses(www.open.edu/itunes)

Online courses based on UK courses are the 50 years of the open university.

4.Udemy(www.udemy.com)

Udemy is an online learning platform aimed at professional adults and students, developed in May 2010. The platform has more than 50 million students and 57,000 instructors teaching courses in over 65 languages. There have been over 295 million course.

3.Khan Academy(khanacademy.org)

Khan Academy is a non-profit educational organization created in 2008 by Salman Khan with the goal of creating a set of online tools that help educate students. The organization produces short lessons in the form of videos. Its website also includes supplementary practice exercises and materials for educators.

2.edX(www.edx.org)

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University created edX in May 2012.The courses often include tutorial videos that are similar to small on-campus discussion groups, an online textbook, and an online discussion forum where students can post and review questions and comments to each other and teaching assistants.

1.Coursera (coursera.org)

Coursera was founded in 2012 by Stanford University computer science professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller. Coursera had more than 47 million registered users and more than 3,900 courses, 400 specializations, 8 MasterTrack Certificates, 14 Professional Certificates, and 16 degree programs.