In honour of International Women’s Day 2018, we've been on the look-out for free online courses & MOOCs related to women. Scroll down to discover MOOCs, free online courses and open courseware covering topics related to women.
Women in Leadership: Inspiring Positive Change
By Case Western Reserve University via Coursera
This course aims to inspire and empower women and men across the world to engage in purposeful career development and take on leadership for important causes---to lead change with more conviction and confidence---and improve our workplaces and communities for all. Go to Course...
Understanding Violence Against Women: Myths and Realities
By the University of Strathclyde via Futurelearn
Learn how to challenge attitudes that lead to violence against women and develop your knowledge of this human rights issue. Go to Course...
Beyond the Ballot: Women’s Rights and Suffrage from 1866 to Today
By Royal Holloway, University of London via Futurelearn
Explore the campaign for women’s right to vote and its impact on women’s rights and equality to the present day. Go to Course...
Women Have Always Worked: The U.S. Experience 1700 – 1920
By Columbia University via edX
This course has been archived, but course materials can still be accessed.
In Part One of Women Have Always Worked, learn how women's work has changed the home, the workplace, and the nation from the Colonial Period through World War I. Go to Course...
Women Have Always Worked: The U.S. Experience 1920 – 2016
By Columbia University via edX
In Part Two of Women Have Always Worked, learn how women's work has changed the home, the workplace, and the nation in the 20th century through the present. Go to Course...
Women: Build Outrageously Successful Businesses from Scratch
By Susan Wilson Solovic via openSAP
You have a great business idea, you know the market, AND you think you can make money? In this course, New York Times Bestseller author, lawyer, and serial entrepreneur Susan Solovic helps you get to grips with your entrepreneurial spirit and learn the skills and strategies to build an outrageously successful business. Go to Course...
Women: free open resources on OpenLearn
OpenLearn is the Open University's access point for its open and free online resources, with the aim of providing free online education, open to anyone, anywhere in the world.
Women's and Gender Studies
MIT Open Courseware
Exploring gender with the tools of different, and often multiple, disciplines, Women's and Gender Studies subjects strive to help MIT students better understand how knowledge and value take different forms depending on a variety of social variables.
Women in Leadership: Inspiring Positive Change
By Case Western Reserve University via Coursera
This course aims to inspire and empower women and men across the world to engage in purposeful career development and take on leadership for important causes---to lead change with more conviction and confidence---and improve our workplaces and communities for all. Go to Course...
Understanding Violence Against Women: Myths and Realities
By the University of Strathclyde via Futurelearn
Learn how to challenge attitudes that lead to violence against women and develop your knowledge of this human rights issue. Go to Course...
Beyond the Ballot: Women’s Rights and Suffrage from 1866 to Today
By Royal Holloway, University of London via Futurelearn
Explore the campaign for women’s right to vote and its impact on women’s rights and equality to the present day. Go to Course...
Women Have Always Worked: The U.S. Experience 1700 – 1920
By Columbia University via edX
This course has been archived, but course materials can still be accessed.
In Part One of Women Have Always Worked, learn how women's work has changed the home, the workplace, and the nation from the Colonial Period through World War I. Go to Course...
Women Have Always Worked: The U.S. Experience 1920 – 2016
By Columbia University via edX
In Part Two of Women Have Always Worked, learn how women's work has changed the home, the workplace, and the nation in the 20th century through the present. Go to Course...
Women: Build Outrageously Successful Businesses from Scratch
By Susan Wilson Solovic via openSAP
You have a great business idea, you know the market, AND you think you can make money? In this course, New York Times Bestseller author, lawyer, and serial entrepreneur Susan Solovic helps you get to grips with your entrepreneurial spirit and learn the skills and strategies to build an outrageously successful business. Go to Course...
Women: free open resources on OpenLearn
OpenLearn is the Open University's access point for its open and free online resources, with the aim of providing free online education, open to anyone, anywhere in the world.
Women's and Gender Studies
MIT Open Courseware
Exploring gender with the tools of different, and often multiple, disciplines, Women's and Gender Studies subjects strive to help MIT students better understand how knowledge and value take different forms depending on a variety of social variables.
