Here are the 26 most popular free online university courses and massive open online courses (MOOCs) starting in November 2023, based on Class Central learners’ activity.

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Digital Business Strategy
University of Virginia via Coursera
Develop your ability to design and implement strategies that will help your company prosper in the digital age.

Cybercrime
Royal Holloway, University of London via Coursera
This course introduces fundamental notions of cybercrime. Namely, what cybercrime is, the main questions surrounding cybercrime, how cybercrime can be defined, and how it can be studied.

Introduction to Digital Advertising
University of Colorado Boulder via Coursera
This course covers the major forms of digital advertising, from basic display ads to search to cutting-edge programmatic advertising concepts.

Machine Learning in Healthcare: Fundamentals & Applications
Northeastern University via Coursera
Focuses on solving real-world problems, which require data cleaning, data transformation, and data modeling.

Data Visualization with Tableau
Tableau via Coursera
The Data Visualization with Tableau course provides you with a foundational understanding of presenting data through clear and easily comprehensible visuals using Tableau.

AI Foundations: Prompt Engineering with ChatGPT
Arizona State University via Coursera
Designed by Andrew Maynard, an expert in transformative technologies, this course equips students with the skills needed to harness the power of ChatGPT effectively.

Cybersecurity Management and Compliance
Microsoft via Coursera
In this course, you’ll learn about data and record management, Information security, standards and policy formation, and implementation.

Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT)
University of Glasgow via Coursera
This course will introduce the fundamental ideas of natural language processing and language modelling that underpin these large language models.

Entrepreneurial Competencies for Landscape Restoration
Erasmus University Rotterdam via Coursera
In this course, we will help you to become an entrepreneurial professional by developing and cultivating an entrepreneurial mindset yourself.

Writing for Business Advanced
University of Glasgow via Coursera
This course will teach you how to apply advanced principles and strategies to produce successful business writing.

Innovative Teaching with ChatGPT
Vanderbilt University via Coursera
Despite what you may have heard, ChatGPT offers exciting possibilities for supporting innovative teaching and personalized education.

Programming for Data Science
University of Leeds via Coursera
Explore the basics of programming and familiarise yourself with the Python language. After completing this course, you will be able to write Python programs in Jupyter Notebook and describe basic programming.

Light and Materials
Rice University via Coursera
This course serves as an introduction to the physics of waves and light. Upon completion, learners will understand how mathematical laws and conservation principles of light and waves.

Spacecraft Relative Motion Control
University of Colorado Boulder via Coursera
This course covers the basics of nonlinear control theory to apply Lyapunov’s direct method to the relative motion control problem.

Robotic Path Planning and Task Execution
University of Colorado Boulder via Coursera
This course, which is the last and final course in the Introduction to Robotics with Webots specialization, will teach you basic approaches for planning robot trajectories and sequence their task execution.

A starter’s guide to Open Science
Erasmus University Rotterdam via Coursera
This course aims to empower researchers and research support professionals with foundational knowledge to conduct, support, and disseminate research efficiently and responsibly.

Creative Designing in Power BI
Microsoft via Coursera
In this course, you will learn how to creatively design dashboards, reports and charts that are easier for the audience to use. You will learn how to create cohesive business intelligence reports and dashboards, as well as what common problems to avoid.

Learning for a Sustainable Future
University of Edinburgh via Coursera
Climate change, gender equality, health, social equity, and inclusion are issues that affect us all, impacting human well-being and economic stability. How to live a sustainable life affects – and connects – us all.

Fundamentals of Business Problem Solving
Howard University via Coursera
This course introduces how to classify data and create models used to solve business models. Learners will use Solver to create expressions to find optimal paths for business problems.

Affirmative Action in Higher Education Teach-Out
University of Michigan via Coursera
​​In this Teach-Out you’ll learn the historical context of affirmative action and the role it has had in college admissions, explore cases in states where affirmative action was already banned prior to the 2023 ruling.

A life with ADHD
University of Geneva via Coursera
What is ADHD and what are the challenges that come with it? Whether you are a person affected by ADHD, a family member or a professional, this MOOC will provide you with an understanding of what ADHD is.

Sensory Science: Conducting Tests
University of California, Davis via Coursera
This course will introduce the sensory evaluation laboratory and will teach you best practices for testing and documentation. We’ll explore how various factors, especially the testing environment, can influence sensory experiments.

XR in Healthcare Education and Clinical Practice
Imperial College London via Coursera
This course is designed to teach you about Extended Reality (XR) and its use in healthcare education and clinical practice.

Public Health Approaches to Abortion
Emory University via Coursera
This introductory public health course provides accessible and foundational knowledge on the topic of abortion in the context of a changing reproductive health landscape.

Programming for a Networked World
Vanderbilt University via Coursera
Want to learn the basics of computer programming in a fun and innovative way? This course introduces computer programming using an educational block-based visual programming environment called NetsBlox.

The Discovery of the Higgs Boson
University of Edinburgh via Coursera
The discovery of a new fundamental particle at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), CERN is the latest step in a long quest seeking to answer one of physics’ most enduring questions: why do particles have mass?