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Online Courses
Participation in online courses can be a good way of adding some change and diversity into your daily routine during the lockdown. On a meta level, they can also help you to gain experience in online learning / teaching / presenting - skills that will be become more and more important in the future!
Below, you will find a list of platforms and links to online courses, some of which will be free, others come with a fee.

Data bases - Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCS)
iversity Berlin-based; courses are offered mostly in German and English but also in other languages |
oncampus German e-learning provider for Universities |
FutureLearn UK-based; jointly owned by The Open University and SEEK Ltd. |
Alison Ireland-based; free online education platform that mostly focuses on workplace-based skills |
OpenLearn - The Open University UK-based; free University courses |
coursera US-based; works with universities and other organizations to offer online courses, certifications, and degrees in a variety of subjects. |
edX US-based; created by Harvard and MIT |
SWAYAM India-based; one of the world's largest MOOC provider |
LinkedIn Learning a subsidiary of LinkedIn; offers video courses taught by industry experts in software, creative, and business skills; US-based but courses in many different languages |
Courses in Data Science / Coding
You can also find courses on data science and coding on the platforms listed above. In addition, the following offers have a special focus on the topic:
codecademy an American online interactive platform that offers free coding classes in 12 different programming languages including Python, Java, R and SQL |
DataCamp multinational platform that teaches companies and individuals the skills they need to work with data in the real world |
freeCodeCamp a non-profit, interactive learning platform that aims to make coding courses accessible to anyone with a web connection |
General Assembly live coding workshops; some free but mostly paid for; to access them, you need to buy an e-ticket on Eventbrite and then tune into the livestream when it happens. For those who lack the motivation to learn at their own pace, this offers a good way to 'force' yourself to learn, because if you miss a session, you miss it. |
Skillshare a subscription-based service that offers thousands of online coding courses taught by industry professionals; courses come complete with material that's been created by the instructors, and there are projects for you to apply your skills; plenty of free courses |
Software Courses and Tutorials
MATLAB - videos and webinars (English and several other languages) provided by MathWorks |
QGIS - tutorials and tips (English and several other languages) provided by SpatialThoughts / Ujaval Gandhi |
Science courses
Climate Change, Risks and Challenges (free; English, German) organised by the German climate Consortium (DKK) and WWF Germany; course instructors are leading German scientists from renowned research institutions incl. MARUM |
Climate Change: The Science (free; English) developed by the University of Exeter |
Tipping Points: Climate Change and Society (49€; English) developed by the University of Exeter |
One Planet, One Ocean (free; English) developed by colleagues from the University of Kiel |
Monitoring the Oceans from Space (free, English) developed by EUMETSAT in support of the Copernicus programme |
These are just a few examples. Just go to the MOOC web sites listed above and search for topics you are interested in.
Language courses
Rosetta Stone one of the best self-learning language tools! members of the University of Bremen can use it for free; several different languages |
Macmillan English Campus online learning platform for English; people with a user card for the SUUB are eligible to use it |
Duolingo free classes, many different languages; starting out simple; can be used on mobile devices |
Courses on Science Communication
1x1 der Wissenschaftskommunikation Videos zu wichtigen Grundlagen der Wissenschaftskommunikation vom Nationalen Institut für Wissenschaftskommunikation (NaWik); in German |
WISSENSCHAFT.VERSTÄNDLICH.SCHREIBEN. E-Learning-Kurse zum verständlichen Schreiben vom Nationalen Institut für Wissenschaftskommunikation (NaWik); kostenpflichtig, in German |
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