Here are the 23 most popular free online university courses and massive open online courses (MOOCs) starting in January 2024, based on Class Central learners’ activity.

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GPT Vision: Seeing the World through Generative AI
Vanderbilt University via Coursera
Imagine a world where your photos don’t just capture memories, but also become intelligent assistants, helping you navigate and manage daily tasks.

English Communication
CEC via Swayam
This course helps students improve their use of English by developing their ability to listen, speak, read, and write in English in personal, professional, and social settings.

Finding Purpose Across Your Life
University of California, Berkeley via edX
Learn research-based techniques to hone your sense of purpose throughout life’s challenges and transitions. Leading scientists and educators will inspire you to connect with what brings meaning to your life.

Data Analysis with Tableau
Tableau via Coursera
This course will teach you how to manipulate and prepare data for analysis and reporting. You will also learn how to use the analytics features in Tableau to more effectively calculate analytics versus manual calculations.

Advanced Data Structures, RSA and Quantum Algorithms
University of Colorado Boulder via Coursera
Introduces number-theory based cryptography, basics of quantum algorithms and advanced data-structures.

Introduction to Digital Twin and Applications
Hong Kong Polytechnic University via edX
Digital twins are gaining popularity, as a simulation technique that integrates interdisciplinary, multi-physical quantity, multiscale, and multi-probability.

Introduction to Intellectual Property
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur via Swayam
This course is created with an objective to introduce a very important area, that is intellectual property.

AI Concepts and Strategy
Rutgers University via Coursera
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly evolving as a multidimensional paradigm, with critical implications for individuals, communities, organizations, businesses, national and regional economies and human society at large.

Human Physiology
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune via Swayam
Physiology deals with the integration of the different dynamic system that keep the life ticking.

Revit for Structural Engineers
University System of Maryland via edX
Learn how to model basic building structural systems in Autodesk Revit.

Yoga for Concentration
Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthan via Swayam
This course gives you an overview of what is concentration and role of Yoga in enhancing concentration towards overall personality development.

Generative AI for Leaders
Vanderbilt University via Coursera
Leaders are constantly seeking innovative tools to amplify their impact. Dive into the realm of Generative AI, a groundbreaking technology poised to redefine the leadership landscape more profoundly than the Internet itself.

Business Intelligence & Analytics
Indian Institute of Technology Madras via Swayam
This course equips students with necessary knowledge and skills on the thought process, modelling approaches and tools required to use data from the enterprise databases and other sources for business decisions.

Statistics Fundamentals for Business Analytics
Lehigh University via edX
This course introduces the basic tools and methods of statistical analysis, which can be applied to a wide variety of situations and data encountered in the areas of business and economics.

Reading and Comprehension of Text in English
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid via Coursera
Effective reading, especially when the main goal is to obtain information, involves certain strategies. Its application is almost automatic, unconscious, when it comes to readings in the mother tongue.

AI in Marketing
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee via Swayam
To develop an understanding of application of Al in marketing management and familiarize students with changes brought in traditional marketing activities due to AI and ethical concerns raised by Al adoption.

An Introduction to Pre-University Mathematics
London School of Economics and Political Science via edX
This self-paced course aims to introduce basic mathematical concepts and maximize your chances of success in undergraduate-level quantitative subjects.

Games and Information
NPTEL via Swayam
This is an advanced course in game theory, with a particular emphasis on the role of information. We begin with static games and cover the basic notations.

Value Creation with Dark Data
Arizona State University via Coursera
In this course, you will learn next-level thinking about value creation with Dark Data, using a principled approach that demonstrates your ability to use dark data to add value to an end-deliverable.

Advanced Android Development
Meta via Coursera
Learn how to manage the lifecycle and data collections of mobile applications. Compare different methodologies for organizing and architecting Android applications and the implications on code quality and team velocity.

Money Banking & Financial Markets
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore via Swayam
The course attempts to provide the students with an in-depth understanding of the functioning of a financial system. Each component of a financial system is dealt with at length from theoretical as well as India specific perspectives.

Dark Data Basics – Understanding the Unknown
Arizona State University via Coursera
This course will help you learn the vocabulary and concepts necessary to understand- and use- Dark Data to create value for your organization.

Student Debt Crisis Teach-Out
University of Michigan via Coursera
Student loan debt in the United States has skyrocketed to over $1.75 trillion, and that number is only expected to grow as tuition costs increase.