All the free MOOC online courses with certificates and ECTS credits

Are you looking for global Free MOOCs courses to include in your degree? Below are all free, open for all ECTS courses created by universities in Finland that you can take in English.

You can complete these courses whenever you want as most of the courses run 24/7, all year round. MOOC courses are usually graded either passed or failed.

All of the courses listed below come with multiple recommendations from Finnish university students gathered from discussions in social media.

Perhaps the best-known of the Finnish MOOC courses, Elements of AI, has had over 0,5 million students from all over the world.

Elements of AI has been translated to all official European Union languages too. New MOOC courses, therefore, are also likely to be opened as these have provided to be very popular among students.

MOOC online courses also tend to be very topical. As there are free MOOC introductions available to the latest trends in business, healthcare, artificial intelligence and environment.

Important for many is that you can get free certificates as well as ECTS credits for completing free MOOC courses. Without any paywalls. As all of the course content is available free for all rather than being just audit-only.

The more technical courses are marked with a blue background color. So they are a bit more difficult than the purple ones for those who are not into math or tech. But nothing too complicated still as these are after all the easiest global ECTS credits known in Finland.

Easiest MOOC Courses

 1 ECTS

FITech 101: Blockchain Business Applications

Basic understanding of blockchain and how to apply blockchain in business

Multiple choice.

Part of the FITech courses.

Fitech 

 2 ECTS

Starting Up

Introduction to start-up entrepreneurship

Multiple choice.

Created by Aalto University. Organized on IT company Reaktor's MinnaLearn platform which features mostly paywalled courses alongside the few free exceptions highlighted here.

Starting Up 

 2 ECTS

Rethinking Health

The fundamentals of value-based healthcare

Multiple choice.

Made by the University of Helsinki in cooperation with IT company Reaktor.

Rethinking Health 

 2 ECTS

Ethics of AI

Ethical aspects of AI

Multiple choice.

Peer-evaluated exercises.

From the University of Helsinki with love.

Ethics of AI 

 2 ECTS

IPR is the new black

Intellectual Property Rights

Multiple choice.

Does not require previous juridical learning.

Intellectual Property Center produces IPR-related research and education.

IPR University Center 

 2 ECTS

AI in Society

How AI works in societal context

Multiple choice.

Peer-evaluated exercises.

Created by the European research university network UNA Europa

The course is designed by the University of Helsinki, the University of Edinburgh and the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne.

UNA Europa 

 2 ECTS

Elements of AI

Demystifying AI

Now available in every official European Union language.

Multiple choice.

Mathematical-logical.

Peer-evaluated exercises.

Created by the IT company Reaktor and the University of Helsinki.

Elements of AI 

 1-2 ECTS

Building AI

Practical methods that make artificial intelligence a reality

Multiple choice.

Voluntary programming exercises.

Mathematical-logical.

One more from Reaktor and the University of Helsinki.

Building AI 

 3 ECTS

Introduction to Sustainability

The Pillars of Sustainability

Multiple choice.

Peer-evaluated exercises.

A former MOOC course dealing in circular economy was turned into a new MOOC course by the UNA Europa University group.

UNA Europa 

 1-4 ECTS

Planetary well-being

Sustainability

Multiple choice.

Four free courses from the Open University of Jyväskylän dealing with planetary well-being.

JYU Online Courses