While you’re stuck at home during the coronavirus social distancing period, you may have extra time on your hands that you haven’t before. Why not use that time to learn a new skill, brush up on your current work or just take a deep-dive into a topic that’s always interested you? We’ve rounded up a ton of available free online courses, from free Ivy League courses online to free classes being offered from General Assembly. Whether you want to learn how to code, how Romans built arenas, the history of women at work or just about any other conceivable subject, here are the best online classes and courses being offered.

Free Online Courses

Class Central

Class Central has a seemingly endless amount of free online courses, including from Ivy Leagues, on topics from coding to literature to women’s studies and more.

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Coursera

You can take a ton of courses from different companies and educational institutions, including Ivy Leagues and art schools, for free on Coursera. For a fee, you can get certifications in certain courses as well.

edX

Access 2,500 courses on everything from epidemics (timely!) to coding to world literature and more from 140 institutions with edX. There are courses in multiple languages as well.

General Assembly

General Assembly offers free coding classes through its online Dash program.

Yale University

Yale offers a number of free open online courses, including Roman architecture and the literature of John Milton.

Rosetta Stone

Rosetta Stone is offering three months free for students during the coronavirus pandemic to learn a language of their choice.

American Girl

American Girl provides a Smart Girls’ Guide to Life, which can come in handy for daughters, as well as the guide “Taking Care of Others by Taking Care of Ourselves,” which has tips for moms, too.

Fender

Fender is offering new users a free three-month subscription to Fender Play, their online learning app for guitar, bass and ukulele. The platform uses instructor-guided videos to teach how to play songs from Led Zeppelin to Sia and Shawn Mendes.

Khan Academy

Khan Academy provides valuable world-class education for free for kids and teens around the world.

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Luminous Spaces

Interested in feng shui, the art of home decor and balance? Get a free lesson in feng shui for your home office with code “freeoffice” from Luminous Spaces.

Masterclass

FBI Negotiator Chris Voss’ MasterClass in tactical empathy will be available for free live on March 25, 2020 to all during the coronavirus social distancing period. Voss will discuss negotiating in the time of social distancing, whether that’s negotiating with parents who aren’t taking things seriously or with children you suddenly have to home-school.

Linux

Learn IT for the first time or brush up if you’re experienced with free courses through Linux and edX.

Spark Databox

Spark Databox has a slew of courses on coding and programming.

Photoshop Training Channel

Get free photo editing tutorials from the Photoshop Training Channel. It may even inspire you to pursue a new side hustle!

Alison

Alison provides free courses in Google platforms and more, with certifications available.

ESL Tongue Twisters

English not your first language, or not the first language of someone you love? Get new free ESL Tongue Twisters daily for 30 days.

Everydae

Get free SAT tutoring for grades 8 through 12 from Everydae during coronavirus school closures.

Trisha Zemp’s Stop Motion Kids Course

Trisha Zemp’s Stop Motion Kids Course is great for adults who want to get a feel for stop motion animation too. You can access the course for free if you share her Instagram.

PhilanthropyU

Get a crash course in giving back and leaving the world better than we found it courtesy of PhilanthropyU.

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HowStuffWorks

Learn about any number of topics from HowStuffWorks, from how horses can detect human emotions to why hand-washing beats hand sanitizer, which is all too relevant right now.

Calma Floral

Calma is hosting a virtual floral workshop on Friday, March 27, 2020. Although you need to purchase supplies for the workshop through their site, you can view the workshop for free on Instagram Live workshop at @calma_floral.

The Organizing Formula

Feel like your entire life is a bit of a mess? The Organizing Formula is a free course on how to get your stuff together and is available in both English and Spanish from Courses by Caroline.

Central Park Tutors

Entertain yourself and your kids with Central Park Tutors, which offers free puppet-making and puppetry tutorials for a new story character each day.

Stop Procrastinating Write Now

Punnily-titled course Stop Procrastinating Write Now is free to aspiring wordsmiths during the coronavirus crisis.

One Way Journey

Take a free happiness course—which, let’s be real, we likely need more than ever—from One Way Journey.

Node Marketing

Have a blog or website for your business? Get more eyes on it with a free SEO training course from Node Training.

Mind Body Green

Learn the art of reiki “healing” for free with this course from Mind Body Green.

Vital Transformation

Eliyahu Jian, who’s worked with the likes of Gisele Bundchen, Ashton Kutcher and more, is offering a free online platform called Vital Transformation to learn to love yourself—because you absolutely deserve it.

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