ASU — it’s not just for college students any more.
Travel the world through virtual field trips, access research materials and learning tools through the library; conduct experiments through online K-College science labs; enhance your professional skills with badge and certificate programs; help your students learn from home with videos, tutorials and games — our digital learning options are growing every day.
“We find ourselves in a highly challenging moment in history. It may have changed how we learn, but it doesn’t change our desire to learn.”
Choose from nearly 40 learning options
Find content made just for you or choose from our most popular resources listed below.
Mediactive: How to participate in our digital world
In the age of information overload, learn how to spot misinformation, assess credible sources and claims, explain how the professional news media operate and use media to participate in your community. Sponsored by the Facebook Journalism Project, the ASU News Co/Lab offers this free course on media literacy principles in English and Spanish.
Mediactive: How to participate in our digital world
In the age of information overload, learn how to spot misinformation, assess credible sources and claims, explain how the professional news media operate and use media to participate in your community. Sponsored by the Facebook Journalism Project, the ASU News Co/Lab offers this free course on media literacy principles in English and Spanish.
Make your next move
The pace of change is altering the workplace and creating exciting new careers. Here you can enhance your knowledge and skills or set course for a career opportunity in an emerging industry or field of work. Find what you want from a wide range of professional development courses, each developed in collaboration with ASU faculty.
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at ASU
Looking to beat the heat, have fun and rediscover your love for learning? Join a vibrant community of 50-plus adults with insatiable appetites for learning! From ASU faculty and other academic instructors to community experts, we offer a broad range of non-credit courses, university-quality courses during three semesters each year (fall, spring, summer) with in-person, online or hybrid offerings. Registration for the spring semester will open up on Dec. 18 and classes will begin on Jan. 16.
To be welcoming video series
Wondering how to respectfully connect with someone of a different race, sexual orientation, religion or cultural background than you? With guidance from versed ASU subject matter experts, this series of videos is designed to help you understand how individual and systemic biases manifest, how to engage in meaningful conversations and how to form positive relationships with others.
Business Analytics and Data Visualization Certificate
This in demand 4-course program trains professionals to confidently analyze data in a business environment. Courses feature interactive videos on analytical concepts and software. Complete your certificate with a realistic capstone project that applies the concepts you’ve learned.
Find and get the right job
Whether you’re looking for your first job or the next step in your career, these resources will help you find the right opportunity, perfect your resume and nail your interview. With video guides, practice questions, actionable tips and more, you’ll be set up for success in your application
Spanish speakers, earn college credits at reduced cost
Acceso allows Spanish-proficient students to take online courses at four Mexican universities, at a much lower cost, and then transfer the credits to an ASU undergraduate degree. This tuition-savings program is available to currently enrolled ASU students and students who plan to transfer to ASU
me3®: major and career quiz
Find a major, degree program and career that fits you with the me3 online interactive quiz. Easily explore majors and careers that fit your interests and passions. Design the future you want — chart an academic pathway to find the degree and career tailored to your unique interests.
Arizona PBS LearningMedia and PBS Kids
Videos, interactive lessons, games and other content for Pre-K through 12th grade that align with school curriculum standards. With a focus on early childhood education, these guides from Arizona PBS and other sources include dedicated help sections for parents, caregivers and teachers.
A Sustainable Earth
"Become an expert on global climate change and receive a digital badge from ASU while you’re at it. In this course, you’ll explore the impact of climate change with climate science dating as far back as the 1800s. You’ll also learn how to calculate your own carbon footprint and safely dispose of waste, as well as discover more ways you can reduce, reuse and recycle to protect the planet.
Curated educational resources
Developed by ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, the Community Educator Learning Hub is an award-winning online learning platform designed to help caring adults and teens help children learn. Short, interactive nanocourses break down teaching and learning strategies to help families, tutors, mentors, and other community members help learners in their households, schools and communities.
Mediactive: How to participate in our digital world
In the age of information overload, learn how to spot misinformation, assess credible sources and claims, explain how the professional news media operate and use media to participate in your community. Sponsored by the Facebook Journalism Project, the ASU News Co/Lab offers this free course on media literacy principles in English and Spanish.
English language learning
ASU's online English language and university preparation courses provide high-quality content that is innovative, fun and challenging. Developed by Global Launch, ASU's English language training unit, these six courses help learners improve their English language, advanced problem-solving, critical thinking and academic writing skills.
Virtual Field Trips: answers through exploration
Used in high school and college classrooms, these interactive and educational Virtual Field Trips feature topic-based, interactive experiences that capture real expeditions and scientists doing research. Many of these experiences also respond to your real-time feedback.
Global Sport Institute Documentary Study Guides
How can sports create positive change? These study guides explore the inspiring stories of athletes to reveal impactful challenges and innovations in sport. Learning materials include short documentaries, lesson plans, group worksheets and individual viewing guides.
Sustainability Teachers’ Academy resources
These engaging activities introduce students to central themes in sustainability science. While designed for grades 6–9, activities can be easily modified for most students and align with Next Generation Science Standards and Common Core science, language arts, mathematics and history/social studies where appropriate.
Child Study Lab (Online Curriculum)
Play a role in cultivating your child's curiosity to create, learn and grow with this virtual learning model. Established by the ASU Department of Psychology, Child Study Lab is an online preschool with curriculum designed to help children navigate life's complexities and learn emotional intelligence.
Civic education
This rich library of resources is designed to help you be an informed and engaged citizen in American politics and democratic society. Multimedia programs feature nationally renowned speakers, historical texts and other tools to help you become versed in civil discourse and the pressing issues of our time.
Pathways for the Future
Upskill to stay competitive in today's ever-changing workforce with programs tailored to you. Pathways awardees can get career support, financial aid and earn credit toward an undergraduate degree or certificate in one of three tracks: liberal arts and sciences, business or engineering.
Financial guidance
If current events have you concerned about your financial future, this guide can help — free advice and tips for staying financially secure. Covering education, career, personal finance and other topics, these resources are design to help you make smart financial choices through uncertain times.
Ask a Biologist
Whether it’s for school, at home or just for personal interest, Ask a Biologist will introduce you to fascinating topics about what makes the living world work the way it does, from microbes to mammals. Delve into articles, experiments, VR tours and tap the expertise of professional biologists to answer your questions.
Ask an Anthropologist
Learners of any age can take advantage of a wealth of insights from our anthropology experts and the resources here will help teachers as well as parents teaching at home. From hands-on experiments to real-world studies, learners at all stages can discover more about the roots of human societies and culture.
Cultural innovation tools
Tools used by artists, designers and other creatives to adapt their process for these challenging times. Online resources — including exhibitions, performances, educational tools, stories from artists and more — will allow you to continue to create, collaborate and educate in the arts
SciStarter: Help scientists solve problems
Through citizen science projects, you can help scientists answer questions they cannot answer alone. Share observations, analyze data and play online games to advance important research from astronomy to zoology. Just join a project, track your contributions and earn a certificate for completing the online tutorial.
WWII: an in-depth study
If you are fascinated by World War II, the resources here give you the opportunity to discover new insights into the war and its legacies. Delivered in partnership with the WWII Museum, this resource enables you to pursue a master’s degree in WWII studies, or to engage in a behind-the-scenes look at extensive artifacts and documents and to engage with leading experts on a variety of WWII topics — no assignments or exams required.
Reimagining education for everyone
It’s time for universities to do more
Ambition, curiosity, creativity and passion don’t fit in any one box. No matter who you are or how you learn, ASU is ready to serve learners at every stage of life. ASU for You is the first step in a larger movement — a movement that’s breaking down education barriers and building up high quality, affordable and accessible learning opportunities for everyone, from K–12 to midcareer to postretirement and every individual in between.
At the heart of this movement is ASU’s Learning Enterprise. It’s the engine fueling the next wave of ASU’s innovative and meaningful programs designed to meet learners where they’re at.