Learning is now accessible to more people than before, thanks to the miracle of the internet. It has formed a solid ground for millions of aspiring learners by creating extensive learning opportunities for them while going beyond geographical borders or other limitations.

As a consequence, they have more options than before to improve their skills, mindset, and individualities in a self-paced learning process.

Here we enlist our top five picks for global online learning platforms that are convenient, resourceful, and will go easy on your wallet.

www.youtube.com

To start off with the obvious, we highly recommend you check out the "Learning" section of YouTube, which can be found with a simple click on the "Explore" sign at the YouTube website.

www.khanacademy.org

A noble attempt by Salman Amin Khan is now imparting beginner to secondary level of education to people of all classes from all over the world with its vast content without requiring you to spend a single penny.

This non-profit organisation has made over 6,500 easy-to-follow classes on subjects like Mathematics, Science, Arts and Humanities, Computer Programming, Economics to mention a few available for all irrespective of people's location, financial status, or any other barriers.

www.coursera.org

Coursera offers courses of various kinds to help you achieve your learning goals. Although you have limited options when it comes to its free offered courses, they do give out sales on their paid courses; especially during the pandemic, they reduced the pricing of many of their premium courses. So, you can enjoy discounts and learn from the premium courses by purchasing them when they go on sale on different occasions or promotional periods.

www.udemy.com

Udemy is another well-known platform that is ensuring standardised education for the masses free of charge. You can learn almost anything of your own choice in your own learning environment with their 183,000 courses.

However, they do charge you for some of those courses. You can browse or skim through their free courses section to learn from their learning materials, which are made free for that particular time.

They, too, put their courses on sale from time to time, so all you have to do is keep an eye for such deals.

www.edX.org

This one is included in the list as this is also a reliable source to strengthen your knowledge in your interested field of study, that too while ensuring all-around flexibility. You do not have to sit through long classes, as you now have the option of choosing, curating, and controlling your learning experience. They offer more than 3,500 courses.

Lastly, a few honourable mentions to sites like thecrashcourse.com, www.nptel.ac.in, online.stanford.edu, ict.iitk.ac.in, ocw.mit.edu, www.open.edu, www.alison.com, www.freecodecamp.org, www.futurelearn.com etc.

Although some of these platforms do charge a certain amount of money for certain learning content or sessions, this list is compiled to introduce these educational platforms to help the prospective learners to start somewhere for free to achieve their unique learning objectives.