5 Free Courses On Coursera To Prepare Yourself For A Digital Workforce

The goal of the Let's Learn Digital campaign is to prepare Malaysians to work in an economy that has grown to be digitally dependent.

Unemployed workers in Malaysia will be able to access over 3,800 courses on Coursera for free until 31 December 2020.

The usual cost of subscription to Coursera is USD399 (RM1,705) per year. Under the campaign, unemployed Malaysians can access most of Coursera's content, many of them taught by Ivy League schools, at completely no cost.

Better yet, certificates are also included and can be easily added to your LinkedIn page.

However, if you do not fall into the category, fret not. As part of their COVID-19 Recovery Response Initiative, Coursera is also offering a selection of courses for free to everyone until 31 July 2020.

The free courses span many topics including health and mental well-being, business and marketing, computer science, and also personal development.

In today's ever-changing world, being able to think creatively and innovatively are essential skills which are highly sought after by employers.

This course, developed and taught by a lecturer from world-class university Imperial College London, will equip you with tools and techniques to bring out your inner creativity.

With a high rating and 70,000 previous students enrolled, the course promises that the greatest innovators are not always the people with the most original idea, but mostly the ones with enough creativity to develop a new perspective.

Sign up for the course here.

This course may teach you skills more important than ever to have during these difficult times.

Offered by John Hopkins University, the lessons will provide you with new perspectives on injuries and trauma that are beyond those physical in nature.

With only 6 hours of content to complete, you will learn how to identify severe crisis reactions and how to appropriately mitigate these situations of acute distress.

The techniques taught are not only applicable in public health settings, the workplace, faith-based organisations, and mass disaster venues, but are also great to build your own mental resilience.

Sign up for the course here.

In this day and age of digital media, it would be important to equip yourself with knowledge on how to develop, organise, and implement an effective content marketing strategy.

Through this course, developed by The University of California, Davis, you will explore the core strategies that content marketers use to acquire and retain customers, while also learning how to write a compelling copy and build your personal brand.

Sign up for the course here.

Programming and computer science can sound very intimidating but it is a much sought after skill to have in this digitalised world.

Taught by top instructors from the University of Edinburgh and Universidad ORT Uruguay, this course will introduce you to the basics of computing and programming with an easy-to-use programming language and 13 hours worth of content to sink into.

Sign up for the course here.

Offered by French engineering institute CentraleSupélec, this project-centred course will guide you to design, build, and distribute your own unique app for the Android mobile platform.

You do not require pre-requisite knowledge or even an Android phone to follow this course - the instructors will be using free software to emulate a phone on your computer - and after 19 hours of coursework, you should have an app to proudly use and share with friends!

Sign up for the course here.

There are hundreds of different courses to look through. Click on this link to view them.