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Traveloka PH

19 May 2020 - 7 min read

Learn New Skills at Home: Free Online Courses You Can Try Now

General Knowledge

Science Matters: Let's Talk About COVID-19

Offered by the Abdul Latif Jameel Institute for Disease and Emergency Analytics at Imperial College London, this class will help you understand the current pandemic we are currently battling and will seek to answer questions like, “How dangerous is the virus?” and “When will a vaccine be available?”
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The Health Effects of Climate Change

Climate change is one of the biggest crises the world is facing right now, and this course from Harvard will examine how the effects of climate change apply to human health. It will also teach enrollees how to help mitigate these effects.
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Exploring Copyright: History, Culture, Industry

Take out CTTO and “No copyright infringement intended” from your vocabulary and learn why an artistic work belongs to its creator. You’ll also learn the challenges content creators face in protecting their work in the digital landscape.
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Dangerous Questions: Why Academic Freedom Matters

Ever been told to stop asking questions? In this course, you’ll learn why being told to stop being critical is dangerous, and how academic freedom contributes to a better society. You’ll also learn about the many threats to academic freedom that exist all over the world.
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Astronomy: Exploring Time and Space

Spending your nights looking at the moon and the stars wondering about the universe? Check this course out and understand modern astronomy, as well as the breakthroughs and discoveries that have happened in recent years.
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Life Skills

Life Skills

The Science of Well-Being

What does it take for someone to become happy? This course will attempt to help you discover your own happiness and foster it. You’ll also learn about common misconceptions about happiness.
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A Mini Course on Time Management

Always getting sucked into procrastination? With the seven steps the instructor teaches, you’ll learn how to become more productive. You’ll also learn how to identify and avoid time management traps.
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Logical and Critical Thinking

If you think you’re someone who gets easily fooled, this course is for you. It will teach you how to improve and develop your logical and critical thinking skills by showing you how to evaluate arguments and identify those that are flimsy.
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The Arts and Science of Relationships: Understanding Human Needs

You will definitely learn more about yourself and your relationships if you take this course. It will teach you effective communication skills such as listening, understanding, and expression, as well as how to foster relationships that have a positive impact on one’s self.
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Introduction to Personal Branding

Nowadays, perception is as important as reality, and how you present yourself to the world can greatly affect your success. Take this course and learn how to create your own personal brand and maintain it.
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Food and Cooking

Cooking

Stanford Introduction to Food and Health

Offered by Stanford, this course will help students understand what healthful eating means. It will teach them how to make their eating habits more healthy while still being practical in order to try and avoid diet-related diseases.
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Knife Skills: A Mini Class to Chop Like a Chef

Got 12 minutes? Take this class and learn basic cuts and how to execute them properly in your own kitchen. You’ll also learn which knife is best for a particular style of chopping, and how to use each one safely.
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Nutrition Kitchen: Basics of Cooking for Busy People

Just as its name suggests, this course teaches the basic cooking skills needed for beginners to be able to prepare a meal by themselves. You’ll learn which cooking equipment, ingredients, and spices are best, as well as how to create your own meal plan.
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Know Yo' Dough - Baking Tools, Tips, and Techniques

If you’re more into baking, you can take this class, too. It covers all the basics, from tools to mixing, shaping, and actually baking your own treats.
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Fruit Grower

This course from the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority or TESDA aims to teach Filipinos how to grow their own fruits. Lessons include preparing the site, growing seedlings, and of course, harvesting fruits.
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Arts and Entertainment

Entertainment

Introductory Photography Course

Step up your photography skills with this intro class that will teach you basics like how to use your camera’s manual settings (and finally leave Auto Mode), how to frame photos, and how to make photos brighter or darker.
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CS50's Introduction to Game Development

Harvard’s course on game development helps noobs understand how games are created by using popular examples like Super Mario Brothers, Pokémon, Legend of Zelda, and more. By the end of this course, students will be able to program their own games.
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How to Write Your First Song

Want to create your own song but don’t know where to start? Take this course and learn the tools and techniques many songwriters use to compose their own work. This class will also explore what elements make a song a hit.Take the class here.

Start Writing Fiction

With the help of published writers, this course will teach you how to create characters for your stories. It also has a workshop portion where your work will be reviewed by your peers and vice versa.
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The Power of Podcasting for Storytelling

Think you have something to say that is worth listening to? Maybe it’s time to try to create your own podcast. Learn the basics of planning, writing, and uploading your own podcast with this class. It will even teach you what software and hardware are effective.
Take the class here.

Languages

Language

Duolingo

Like games? Duolingo makes learning a new language even more fun by turning it into a game. You’ll not only learn to read and write in a foreign language but with the help of your microphone, you’ll also learn how to speak it, too.
Check the classes and the app here.

First Step Korean

Want to fully immerse yourself in K-Dramas and K-Pop? Do away with the subtitles with the help of this course. Not only will you learn the basics of the Korean language, you’ll also learn more about Korean culture.
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Spanish For Beginners

The Filipino language has several similarities with Spanish, and that should encourage you to take this course. You’ll learn the basics of the Spanish language and will be able to carry a simple conversation by the end of the course.
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Introduction to Dutch

At the end of this three-week course, you should be able to write and speak basic Dutch. Apart from learning basic but useful sentences and phrases, you will also be taught about grammar and other language rules.
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Steps in Japanese

This three-part introductory course will help you learn how to read, write, and speak basic Nihongo. The course also teaches basic conversational phrases that will help you communicate with native speakers.
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What are you waiting for? Enroll in your preferred class now and keep your brain challenged. You can also check out other activities at Traveloka.

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