As we get closer to the next year, there are more and more courses being added to the great MOOC platforms.
Class Central has tracked these courses from a lot of different sources and presented this list for us to benefit. Here's a List of Over 150 Free Online Courses/MOOCs Starting in January 2015.
Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects
Jan 2nd | Coursera
Foundations of Teaching for Learning 3: Learners and Learning
Jan 5th | Coursera
Jan 5th | edX
Shaping the Way We Teach English, 1: The Landscape of English Language Teaching
Jan 5th | Coursera
Jan 5th | 4 weeks long | Open2Study
Jan 5th | 4 weeks long | Open2Study
Jan 5th | 4 weeks long | Open2Study
Jan 5th | 4 weeks long | Open2Study
Foundations of Virtual Instruction
Jan 12th | Coursera
Administration of adult and higher education
Jan 12th | Janux
Introduction to Learning Technologies
Jan 12th | Canvas.net
Jan 12th | Canvas.net
Helping History Teachers Become Writing Teachers
Jan 12th | Canvas.net
COL101x: The Road to Selective College Admissions
Jan 13th | edX
K-12 Blended & Online Learning
Jan 13th | Coursera
What is Character? Virtue Ethics in Education
Jan 19th | FutureLearn
A beginners’ guide to writing in English for university study
Jan 19th | FutureLearn
Jan 19th | Coursera
Jan 26th | Canvas.net
Jan 26th | Canvas.net
Teaching Library Research Strategies
Jan 26th | Canvas.net
Foundations of Teaching for Learning 6: Introduction to Student Assessment
Jan 26th | Coursera
Reading for Understanding: Literacy for Learning in the 21st Century
Jan 26th | Canvas.net
Jan 26th | Canvas.net
American Education Reform: History, Policy, Practice
Jan 26th | Coursera
IndEdu200x: Reconciliation Through Indigenous Education
Jan 27th | edX
Jan 27th | Coursera
Jan 30th | edX
Science (47)
Introduction to Genetics and Evolution
Jan 2nd | Coursera
Dino 101: Dinosaur Paleobiology
Jan 3rd | Coursera
Jan 5th | FutureLearn
Introduction to forensic science
Jan 5th | FutureLearn
PY1x: Preparing for the AP* Physics 1 Exam
Jan 5th | edX
Tackling the Global Food Crisis: Sustainable Agri-food Systems
Jan 5th | FutureLearn
Network Analysis in Systems Biology
Jan 5th | Coursera
Agriculture and the World We Live In
Jan 5th | 4 weeks long | Open2Study
Astronomy: Discovering the Universe
Jan 5th | 4 weeks long | Open2Study
Jan 5th | 4 weeks long | Open2Study
Chemistry – Building Blocks of the World
Jan 5th | 4 weeks long | Open2Study
Jan 5th | 4 weeks long | Open2Study
Contemporary Issues in Ocean Governance
Jan 5th | 4 weeks long | Open2Study
Jan 5th | 4 weeks long | Open2Study
Microbiology and Forensic Science
Jan 5th | 4 weeks long | Open2Study
Jan 5th | 4 weeks long | Open2Study
Forest222x: Forests and Livelihoods in Developing Countries
Jan 6th | edX
Jan 6th | Coursera
Visual Perception and the Brain
Jan 7th | Coursera
8.MechCx: Advanced Introductory Classical Mechanics
Jan 8th | edX
AdvENVSCI.2x: Preparing for the AP* Environmental Science Exam - Part 2: Populations
Jan 12th | edX
SNU034.005.1x: Introductory Physics — Part 1: Mechanics and Waves | edX
Jan 12th | FutureLearn
Climate Change: Challenges and Solutions
Jan 12th | FutureLearn
Jan 12th | Janux
Hydraulic fracturing and water resources
Jan 12th | Janux
Practical Importance of Human Evolution
Jan 12th | Janux
Astrobiology and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
Jan 12th | Coursera
Beauty, Form & Function: An Exploration of Symmetry
Jan 12th | Coursera
AdvPHY2.2x: Preparing for the AP* Physics 2 Exam – Part 2: Electricity and Magnetism
Jan 12th | edX
7.QBWx: Quantitative Biology Workshop
Jan 13th | edX
PHYS102.1x: Electricity & Magnetism, Part 1
Jan 13th | edX
Jan 13th | Coursera
Jan 14th | edX
PS280x: Modeling Climate Change
Jan 19th | edX
Greening the Economy: Lessons from Scandinavia
Jan 19th | Coursera
Introduction to Sustainability
Jan 19th | Coursera
Our Earth: Its Climate, History, and Processes
Jan 19th | Coursera
Statistical Molecular Thermodynamics
Jan 19th | Coursera
RA201x: Retos de la agricultura y la alimentación en el siglo XXI
Jan 20th | edX
Pathways to climate change adaptation: the case of Small Island Developing States
Jan 26th | Coursera
GFFCx: Growing our Future Food: Crops
Jan 26th | edX
Sustainable Food Production Through Livestock Health Management
Jan 26th | Coursera
The discovery of the Higgs boson
Jan 26th | FutureLearn
AdvBIO.3x: Preparing for the AP* Biology Exam – Part 3: Evolution and Diversity
Jan 26th | edX
CTB3365STx: Introduction to the Treatment of Urban Sewage
Jan 27th | edX
Agent-Based Modeling in Netlogo | Complexity Explorer
Engineering (12)
Jan 4th | Coursera
Jan 5th | Coursera
Jan 5th | 4 weeks long | Open2Study
Jan 5th | 4 weeks long | Open2Study
Jan 12th | Others
QMSE-02: Quantum Mechanics for Scientists and Engineers 2
Jan 13th | Stanford OpenEdx
Geospatial Intelligence & the Geospatial Revolution
Jan 14th | Coursera
EE210.1x: Signals and Systems, Part 1
Jan 15th | edX
Jan 19th | Coursera
Jan 19th | Coursera
EE40LX: Electronic Interfaces: Bridging the Physical and Digital Worlds
Jan 20th | edX
UT.6.02x: Embedded Systems - Shape The World
Jan 21st | edX
Computer Science (35)
Jan 5th | Coursera
Jan 5th | Coursera
Jan 5th | Coursera
Computational Methods for Data Analysis
Jan 5th | Coursera
Image and video processing: From Mars to Hollywood with a stop at the hospital
Jan 5th | Coursera
Jan 5th | Coursera
Jan 5th | Coursera
LFS101x.2: Introduction to Linux
Jan 5th | edX
Jan 5th | Coursera
Jan 5th | Coursera
Jan 5th | Coursera
Jan 5th | 4 weeks long | Open2Study
Jan 5th | Coursera
Jan 5th | Coursera
Jan 5th | Coursera
Jan 5th | Coursera
Jan 5th | Coursera
Jan 5th | Coursera
CS169.2x: Software as a Service
Jan 6th | edX
M101J: MongoDB for Java Developers
Jan 6th | MongoDB University
Jan 6th | MongoDB University
M202: MongoDB Advanced Deployment and Operations
Jan 6th | MongoDB University
6.00.1x: Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python
Jan 7th | edX
Introduction to Computer Programming
Jan 12th | Janux
Power and elegance of computational thinking
Jan 12th | Janux
Artificial Intelligence Planning
Jan 12th | Coursera
Heterogeneous Parallel Programming
Jan 12th | Coursera
Jan 13th | Others
Algorithms: Design and Analysis, Part 1
Jan 19th | Coursera
PH525.1x: Statistics and R for the Life Sciences
Jan 19th | edX
Jan 19th | Coursera
EconSec101x: Economics of Cybersecurity
Jan 20th | edX
Jan 23rd | Coursera
Jan 23rd | Coursera
Introduction to Cyber Security
Jan 26th | FutureLearn
Business & Management (44)
Desarrollo rápido de productos innovadores para mercados emergentes
Jan 5th | Coursera
Jan 5th | NovoED
Innovation for Entrepreneurs: From Idea to Marketplace
Jan 5th | Coursera
New Venture Finance: Startup Funding for Entrepreneurs
Jan 5th | Coursera
Big Data for Better Performance
Jan 5th | 4 weeks long | Open2Study
Diagnosing the Financial Health of a Business
Jan 5th | 4 weeks long | Open2Study
Jan 5th | 4 weeks long | Open2Study
Entrepreneurship and Family Business
Jan 5th | 4 weeks long | Open2Study
Jan 5th | 4 weeks long | Open2Study
Jan 5th | 4 weeks long | Open2Study
Jan 5th | 4 weeks long | Open2Study
Innovation for Powerful Outcomes
Jan 5th | 4 weeks long | Open2Study
Introduction to Business in Asia
Jan 5th | 4 weeks long | Open2Study
Introduction to Enterprise Architecture
Jan 5th | 4 weeks long | Open2Study
Leadership: Identity, Influence and Power
Jan 5th | 4 weeks long | Open2Study
Negotiation and Conflict Resolutio
Jan 5th | 4 weeks long | Open2Study
Jan 5th | 4 weeks long | Open2Study
Principles of Project Management
Jan 5th | 4 weeks long | Open2Study
Sports and Recreation Management
Jan 5th | 4 weeks long | Open2Study
Jan 5th | 4 weeks long | Open2Study
15.390.2x: Entrepreneurship 102: What can you do for your customer?
Jan 9th | edX
15.390.1x: Entrepreneurship 101: Who is your customer?
Jan 9th | edX
Jan 11th | NovoED
Developing Innovative Ideas for New Companies: The First Step in Entrepreneurship
Jan 12th | Coursera
Managing People: Engaging your Workforce
Jan 12th | FutureLearn
Make an Impact: Sustainability for Professionals
Jan 12th | FutureLearn
Grow to Greatness: Smart Growth for Private Businesses, Part II
Jan 12th | Coursera
BP111x: Business and its Environment: An Overview of Business and the Role of Finance in Business
Jan 12th | edX
Thinking Outside The Box: Creative Entrepreneurship
Jan 12th | Canvas.net
Jan 12th | Coursera
3.086: Innovation and Commercialization
Jan 13th | edX
Public Speaking - Join the Talk & Spread the Word
Jan 13th | iversity
Time to Reorganize! Understand Organizations, Act, and Build a Meaningful World.
Jan 13th | Coursera
DQ 101: Introduction to Decision Quality
Jan 14th | NovoED
Jan 15th | iversity
Jan 17th | NovoED
Jan 18th | Coursera
Decision Making in a Complex and Uncertain World
Jan 19th | FutureLearn
Jan 21st | iversity
The Governance of Nonprofit Organizations
Jan 26th | Coursera
Jan 26th | Coursera
El ABC del emprendimiento esbelto
Jan 26th | Coursera
Project Management for Business Professionals
Jan 26th | Canvas.net
Contar Historias para el Cambio
Jan 27th | NovoED
Architecture 101 - Part I: From Nothingness to Place
Jan 5th | iversity
Jan 5th | 4 weeks long | Open2Study
Jan 5th | 4 weeks long | Open2Study
Arch402: Frank Lloyd Wright and the 20th Century
Jan 12th | EdCast
Arch403: Designing Resilient Schools
Jan 12th | EdCast
Introduction to Classical Music
Jan 12th | Coursera
Write Like Mozart: An Introduction to Classical Music Composition
Jan 13th | Coursera
Serious Game Design and Development
Jan 13th | iversity
The Music of the Rolling Stones, 1962-1974
Jan 17th | Coursera
Introduction to Graphic Design
Jan 19th | OpenLearning
Jan 20th | edX
Physical Theatre: Meyerhold and Biomechanics
Jan 26th | FutureLearn
ColWri3.2x: "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Twain: BerkeleyX Book Club
Jan 5th | edX
Introduction to European Business Law
Jan 5th | Coursera
Jan 5th | 4 weeks long | Open2Study
Indigenous Studies: Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand
Jan 5th | 4 weeks long | Open2Study
Jan 5th | 4 weeks long | Open2Study
Understanding the Origins of Crime
Jan 5th | 4 weeks long | Open2Study
Jan 5th | 4 weeks long | Open2Study
UTokyo002x: Visualizing Postwar Tokyo, Part 2
edX
AmPoX.3: Poetry in America: Whitman
Jan 7th | edX
15.S23x: U.Lab: Transforming Business, Society, and Self
Jan 7th | edX
SW12.10x: China (Part 10): Greater China Today: The People's Republic, Taiwan, and Hong Kong
Jan 8th | edX
HLS2X: ContractsX: From Trust to Promise to Contract
edX
Jan 12th | edX
America's Unwritten Constitution
Jan 12th | Coursera
The Magna Carta and its Legacy
Jan 12th | Coursera
Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Jan 12th | Janux
Understanding Terrorism and the Terrorist Threat
Jan 12th | Coursera
Disasters and Ecosystems: Resilience in a Changing Climate
Jan 12th | iversity
Reason and Persuasion: Thinking Through Three Dialogues By Plato
Jan 12th | Coursera
Introduction to Environmental Law and Policy
Jan 12th | Coursera
Jan 16th | Stanford OpenEdx
Empire: The Controversies of British Imperialism
Jan 19th | FutureLearn
Shakespeare's Hamlet: text, performance, and culture
Jan 19th | FutureLearn
Evolution and Natural Selection
Jan 19th | Canvas.net
Jan 19th | Coursera
Digging Deeper: Making Manuscripts
Jan 20th | Stanford OpenEdx
Jan 21st | iversity
Archaeology of Portus: exploring the lost harbour of ancient Rome
Jan 26th | FutureLearn
Human Rights: Global & Local ProtectionJan 30th | iversity
Social Sciences (13)
Jan 5th | FutureLearn
Jan 5th | 4 weeks long | Open2Study
Ec1101x: Principles of Economics with Calculus
Jan 5th | edX
Jan 5th | 4 weeks long | Open2Study
Jan 5th | 4 weeks long | Open2Study
Game Theory II: Advanced Applications
Jan 11th | Coursera
Jan 12th | Janux
Jan 12th | Coursera
История и теория медиа (History and theory of media)
Jan 19th | Coursera
Jan 19th | Coursera
Jan 19th | Coursera
Сравнительная политика (Comparative Politics)
Jan 26th | Coursera
Экономика для неэкономистов (Economics for non-economists)
Jan 26th | Coursera
Health & Medicine (29)
Improving your image: dental photography in practice
Jan 5th | FutureLearn
Jan 5th | Coursera
Jan 5th | 4 weeks long | Open2Study
Introduction to Nursing in Healthcare
Jan 5th | 4 weeks long | Open2Study
Jan 5th | 4 weeks long | Open2Study
Jan 5th | 4 weeks long | Open2Study
Jan 8th | Coursera
EDIVET: Do you have what it takes to be a veterinarian?
Jan 12th | Coursera
NUTR101x: Introduction to Nutrition – Food for Health
Jan 12th | edX
Introduction to Healthcare Career Exploration
Jan 12th | Canvas.net
What Matters: Understanding Mental Health
Jan 12th | Canvas.net
Deteriorating Patient: Assessment, Recognition and Management
Jan 12th | Canvas.net
Living with Dementia: Impact on Individuals, Caregivers, Communities and Societies
Jan 12th | Coursera
Circadian clocks: how rhythms structure life
Jan 15th | Coursera
NovoED
WomensHealth: International Women's Health & Human Rights
Jan 15th | Stanford OpenEdx
Ebola in Context: Understanding Transmission, Response and Control
Jan 19th | FutureLearn
Critical Thinking in Global Challenges
Jan 19th | Coursera
Understanding Ecology and Populations
Jan 19th | Canvas.net
An Introduction to the U.S. Food System: Perspectives from Public Health
Jan 20th | Coursera
Behavior Analysis & Therapy and Autism Spectrum Disorders
Jan 20th | Desire2Learn
Preventing Chronic Pain: A Human Systems Approach
Jan 26th | Coursera
The Challenges of Global Health
Jan 26th | Coursera
Jan 26th | Coursera
The Land Ethic Reclaimed: Perceptive Hunting, Aldo Leopold, and Conservation
Jan 26th | Coursera
Jan 26th | Coursera
The brain in a non-stop round the world regatta. Chronobiology and sleep management
Jan 26th | Canvas.net
Jan 26th | Coursera
Health for All Through Primary Health Care
Jan 28th | Coursera
Mathematics and Stats (10)
Mathematical Methods for Quantitative Finance
Jan 5th | Coursera
Nonlinear Dynamics 1: Geometry of Chaos
Jan 6th | Coursera
Introduction to Dynamical Systems and Chaos
Jan 15th | Complexity Explorer
Initiation à la théorie des distributions
Jan 19th | Coursera
Mathematical Biostatistics Boot Camp 2
Jan 19th | Coursera
StatLearning: Statistical Learning
Jan 19th | Stanford OpenEdx
BMN101x: Bases Matemáticas: Números y terminología
Jan 20th | edX
Statistical Reasoning for Public Health 2: Regression Methods
Jan 26th | Coursera
UT.5.02x: Linear Algebra - Foundations to Frontiers
Jan 28th | edX
Math226.1x: Introduction to Differential Equations | edX
