{"id":4919,"date":"2017-11-07T16:01:51","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T14:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studentnewsgrid.com\/?p=4919"},"modified":"2017-11-07T16:01:51","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T14:01:51","slug":"free-online-courses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/2017\/11\/07\/free-online-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"Free online courses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While\u00a0rising university fees are making it harder to get\u00a0a university degree, a growing number of institutions are offering free courses online.<\/p>\n<p>We came across this <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.freecodecamp.org\/200-universities-just-launched-560-free-online-courses-heres-the-full-list-d9dd13600b04\">fantastic list<\/a>\u00a0with 560 courses being launched for free by 200 universities world wide, so we thought we&#8217;d put together something for South Africa.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.onlinestudies.com\/Courses\/South-Africa\/\">Onlinestudies.com<\/a>\u00a0has a list of 38 online courses from institutions around South Africa. Most courses start in 2018,\u00a0and there is a choice of full or part time study to suit your needs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edx.org\/school\/witsx\">WitsX<\/a> offers a variety of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).\u00a0Courses can be audited free or students can choose to receive a verified certificate for a small fee. Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edx.org\/\">EdX<\/a> for more great free courses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.class-central.com\/tag\/south%20africa\">Class Central<\/a> has a listing of online courses from South African Institutions amongst others. Please note that some courses do have fees attached, though the majority\u00a0are\u00a0free.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll keep looking and will let\u00a0you\u00a0know about\u00a0more free online courses for 2018.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While\u00a0rising university fees are making it harder to get\u00a0a university degree, a growing number of institutions are offering free courses online. We came across this fantastic list\u00a0with 560 courses being launched for free by 200 universities world wide, so we thought we&#8217;d put together something for South Africa. Onlinestudies.com\u00a0has a list of 38 online courses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":4926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[66,161,163,68],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}