mnoumanabbasi / covid-resources

Resources from across the web made free/discounted due to the Coronavirus pandemic to help students and learners.

Covid-Resources

Resources from across the web made free/discounted due to the Coronavirus pandemic to help students and learners.

As a result of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, organizations including several online learning platforms have either discounted or made their services free for students and businesses to use. These include online courses and extended softwares trails to help people across the globe better cope with the ongoing calamity.

This repositry serves as a way to gather all these resources/services in one place. Although anyone can benefit from it, it is intended for students and learners.

If you are bored and have nothing to do, this repository is for you. Utilize this time to learn new skills and benefit from the numerous services and learning resources made available. Remember to stay home and stay safe!

🏛 Online Courses

• Coursera for Campus: Available for free to any University impacted. Details here.

  • Benefits: Access 3,800 courses and 400 Specializations.

• Codecademy: Scholarships for students affected by COVID-19. Details here.

  • Benefits: 10,000 scholarships to Codecademy Pro for free to students across the world for the rest of the school year.

• OpenClassrooms: Available to all higher education institutions and professional training organizations. Details here.

  • Benefits: Catalog of hundreds of online courses and free use of SPARK licenses to the institutions.

• BitDegree: Courses made available for all till April 13th. Details here.

  • Benefits: High-paid computer science courses made free for all.

• Pluralsight: Build in-demand tech skills without leaving your house. Details here.

  • Benefits: Free access to 7,000+ expert-led video courses and more for the entire month of April.

• Oracle: Oracle Ramps Up Free Online Learning and Certifications for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Oracle Autonomous Database. Details here.

  • Benefits: Free access to more than 50 hours of online training and 6 certification exams.

• IBM Training & Skills: Free Training to Update Skills. Details here.

  • Benefits: Free access to courses including IBM Cloud, IBM Watson, IBM Systems, IBM Professional skills and more

• jsComplete: Use discount code COVID19 to take 30% off anything at jsComplete. Details here.

  • Benefits: Learn Modern Full-stack JavaScript with Node, React, GraphQL, and more.

• Educative: Level up your coding skills, quickly and efficiently. Details here.

  • Benefits: Free access to the learning track 'Become a Frontend Developer', worth over $115.

• Udacity: Learnt the latest tech skills and advance your career. Detail here.

  • Benefits: Get a special discount on any Nanodegree program. Available worldwide.

💻 Services

• Microsoft Office 365: Making the transition to remote learning with Office 365. Details here.

  • Benefits: Office 365 Online Apps free and Microsoft Teams free for schools and universities.

• GitHub: GitHub is now free for teams. Details here.

  • Benefits: All of the core GitHub features are now free for everyone.

📚 Online Books (Ebooks)

• Open Library: National Emergency Library to provide digitized books to students and the public. Details here.

  • Benefits: 1.4 million copyrighted books for free online. Waitlists suspended.

• Blinkist: Read the key lessons from 3000+ nonfiction books in 15 min or fewer. Sign up free.

  • Benefits: Free upgrade to premium admist coronavirus pandemic.

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