Useful quarantine: 50 online resources with various free courses

Hundreds of educational sites have opened free access to training courses. In three weeks you can master a lot - from new hobbies to coding, sorcery and magic. Edition iPhones.RU has collected many free platforms for learning and entertainment.

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Enter the IT World

Quarantine was least affected by IT specialists: both psychologically and financially. If you want to change your profession and be able to work remotely, not only during the epidemic, here you are:

• Courses и intense GeekBrains - Python, Java, Swift, website and application development, as well as product management, web design and Facebook advertising;
• Bang bang education - all 46 courses are available free of charge until April 16, topics - from design to development for Arduino;
• Netology - courses and classes, development, SMM, even preparation for exams Google Ads and Yandex. Direct. A month of free access using the STAYHOME code;
• Microsoft Official Courses - from a beginner to a solution architect, with tests, most are available for free;
• Microsoft Product Learning Videos in Russian - from Channel19;
• Yandex Academy - lectures, meetings and workshops, breakdown by topics, videos on YouTube;
• HTML, CSS, JavaScript course from Yandex.Practicum;
• Loft Blog - video lessons that will definitely help determine the direction in IT and not only;
• Stepik - courses with an interactive platform, tasks and tests, a lot of practice. Some courses are available for free;
• SkillBox - online master classes are available for free after registration and repost;
• Programming Courses for Beginners from Otus - will help you understand whether you need it or not;
• Courses in Python, JavaScript, PHP and bash scripts from Hexlet - practice in the browser, community help;
• Codeacademy - free entry-level courses, a good selection of languages ​​- there are even R and Go;
• HTML Academy - web development, entry-level courses are available for free;
• Large selection of Data Science courses from Dataquest - part is available free of charge after registration;
• Big Data Analytics from DataMonkey with emphasis on SQL;
• Website development on Tilda from Contented - the course was opened for everyone at the time of quarantine.

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And a little more clean practice:

• CodinGame - big tasks, fast “fights” with interesting tasks, challenges and tournaments. Only practice and a good selection of programming languages;
• Leetcode - many free tasks that happen during interviews, code validation, comparison with other solutions in terms of execution speed and resource consumption;
• Hackerrank - a huge selection of tasks, complexity - from initial to high, including those that go beyond the programs of courses and universities;
• HTML simulator from SkillFactory - master the layout and take the first step in the front end.

Upgrade english

A good level of English means freedom of travel after quarantine, prestigious work, original Netflix series, and self-confidence. Today you need to know more than London is the capital of Great Britain.

• Puzzle English - English according to Ticher’s method, from Beginner to Intermediate, for most interviews this is enough;
• LinguaLeo и DuoLingo - free online portals and mobile applications for learning in a playful way;
• Busuu - the language platform is available for free at the time of quarantine, scheduled courses for children and adolescents. Not only English, but also Spanish, Chinese and French;
• Lingust - audio lessons, grammar, business English, Pimsler method for pros from the FSB and the CIA;
• TED - short motivating and simply interesting speeches of speakers from around the world, a selection with Russian subtitles;
• Lang8 - communities of native speakers will help, prompt, correct the post;
• Math english from HSE;
• English lessons from the BBC - if difficult, you can always turn on subtitles;
• Rachel's English - short videos, everyday situations, American English;
• English with Jennifer - dialogues, grammar, increase vocabulary in simple and understandable videos;
• English per minute - video from Voice of America;
• Memrise - a platform that will help new learn words on flashcards online.

Improve your or someone else's business

Quarantine = crisis. People in a remote place, some of the companies “go into hibernation”, the travel industry is curtailed due to closed borders. And they buy less - if you, of course, do not sell essential goods.

But something can be done, and it will come in handy for the future:

• Course “Text and Money” Maxim Ilyakhov - 53 lessons in audio recordings;
• Free Webinars on Marketing, Advertising and SMMas well as courses for beginners from Cybermarketing;
• Vector - courses on how to improve an existing business or open a new one;
• SEO, SMM and PPC courses from the portal "Topekspert".
• Moscow School of Management Skolkovo - training from practitioners in short lectures on YouTube;
• Business environment - 2-minute videos with life hacks of successful entrepreneurs;
• Brand Marketing Course from Andrey Fedoriv - how to create and develop your own brand, a series of videos on YouTube;
• Blogging for Business - the $ 800 Ahrefs Academy English language course has temporarily become free;
• Beginner's Investment Course from the Tinkoff Journal.

And two useful courses on remote work:

• Remote Management and Employee Management Course from Sberbank;
• A series of webinars from the publishing house “MIF” about how to survive and not go crazy on a distance.

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Go headlong into science

• ScienceVideoLab - video about scientific theories, facts and myths;
• Smoking room Gutenberg - boring scientific lectures;
• Stubborn Paleontologist - how dinosaurs lived and why they are actually not as cool as it might seem;
• Channel with excellent chemistry lectures - there is about dry ice, and about unusual experiments;
• Video of the journal “Science and Life” - just a return to childhood.

Become more cultured

• Arzamas - courses on the history of Russia and the world, literature, art, anthropology. And also cool special projects, for example, “Russian language from "Goy Yes" to "Lol Kek"";
• Art History Course from “Synchronization” - learn to distinguish Monet from Manet and not only;
• Hermitage Academy - official courses of the Hermitage;
• Pushkin Academy - course on the history of art;
• PostScience - courses of various subjects, but with a scientific bias: from the work of the brain to quantum theory;
• Open university - courses on history, sociology, political science, culture;
• Theory and practice - modern knowledge in all areas of science and art;
• Total dictation - Russian language lessons, detailed analysis. There is also a course on the history of Russian spelling “Mouse is cropping";
• We - video lectures on world culture and history;

Learn new hobbies

• 4Brain - a selection of courses for the development of the brain and body: from speed reading to self-defense. Free texts, books and articles are available;
• SkillShare - creative courses, from professional photography to design and interiors. Two months of free access are provided;
• Exploring the city in creative ways - keeping a distance to avoid infection;
• Hogwarts Academy of Witchcraft and Wizardry - Yes, yes, and “Protection from the Dark Arts.”
• Oli vince - One of the most enjoyable courses in watercolor and coffee;
• DrawWithJazza - boring drawing with unusual materials and technologies;
• Boring sound - Theory and practice of music in an adequate modern format;
• Piano training - even if you don’t have a piano;
• Headspace - three months of free access to the meditation service;
• Guides about everything - From starting a startup to switching to vegetarianism. In English.

Bonus: free courses from the best universities and not only

• Open education - 503 courses of leading Russian universities;
• HSE Courses - classic programs in all major areas;
• SPbU courses - Actual programs from the first university of the country;
• Lectures by scientists of Moscow State University - courses for a variety of specialties;
• Lectures of MSTU Bauman - classic IT education and current technology;
• 630 free courses from leading Russian universities on platforms like Coursera. Some are available only to students; a letter from the dean’s office or other documents will be required;
• 450 Ivy League University Free Courses - feel like a student at Harvard or Princeton;
• Courses of the State Institute of the Russian Language Pushkin - not only about the language;
• Lecture Hall - MIPT online learning platform;
• National Open University “Intuit” - IT education, retraining, advanced training;
• Universarium - open platform for online learning, courses from leading universities of the Russian Federation;
• Lecture Hall - educational project for boring learning;
• Egor Gaidar Open University - video courses, emphasis on economics and humanities;
• ITMO University - 68 cool courses in IT, biotechnology, optical systems, instrument engineering;
• Huge table with free courses of leading world universities - Harvard, Stanford, Yale and not only, regularly updated.

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