With the increased internet uptake across the country, it is high time we spend time improving our personal and professional skills.

Now is the perfect time to pick up new skills. Put that time and bundles into good use instead of wasting these precious resources on social media.  How accomplished would you feel if, after, say, eight weeks, you could open up your curriculum vitae and add another skill? Very, I am guessing.

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) provide the much-needed ease and flexibility for anyone to learn anything online. The best part? Most of these courses are free.

Some of the bodies offering these online courses for free include:

1. Coursera.

Coursera is an education platform that partners with top universities and organizations worldwide to offer courses online for anyone to take.

2. Edx.

Edx is an online learning destination and MOOC provider, offering high-quality courses from the world’s best universities and institutions to learners everywhere.

3. Iversity.org

Iversity is  Europe’s digital learning platform for higher education and professional development. We enable universities, nonprofits and knowledge-based companies to share courses awarding recognized credentials with participants from around the globe.

4. Udacity.

With industry giants—Google, AT&T, Facebook, Salesforce, Cloudera, etc.—Udacity offers Nanodegree programs and credentials designed so professionals become Web Developers, Data Analysts, Mobile Developers, etc.

5. Udemy.

Udemy.com is a platform or marketplace for online learning. Unlike academic MOOC programs driven by traditional collegiate coursework, Udemy provides a platform for experts of any kind to create courses that can be offered to the public, either at no charge or for a tuition fee.

6. Alison

ALISON.com is the website and learning platform of Capernaum Ltd, trading as ALISON.

7. MIT Open courseware

MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) is an initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to put all of the educational materials from its undergraduate- and graduate-level courses online, freely and openly available to anyone, anywhere.

8. Open2study

Open Universities Australia (OUA) is an online higher education organization based in Australia.

These are some of the platforms, and there are many other platforms.

Check out some of the courses you can take here.

9. Khan Academy

Check their courses here.