20 Best Personal Development MOOC / Non-credit Programs Online
We compared 20 Personal Development courses currently listed on Coursera and Udemy, priced from $34.99 to $95.00. 13 come from a named university or institution, including Unicamp, Szegedi Tudományegyetem and University of Colorado Boulder. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.
- Courses compared
- 20
- Price range
- $34.99 – $95.00
- Providers
- Coursera, Udemy
- Last updated
- 18 Sep 2026
How these 20 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, Udemy, matched to "Personal Development" by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.
The grade on each entry scores how much the provider publishes about the course before you pay — the length and detail of the description, whether it lists learning outcomes and objectives — and whether a named university or institution stands behind it. A is fully documented and institution-backed; E is little more than a title and a price. Courses with almost nothing published are left ungraded rather than marked down, because an unknown course and a poor one are not the same thing.
There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $34.99 to $95.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Personal Development And Business Productivity - 2026
Offered by Alex Genadinik
This is a life-changing masterclass in personal development and professional productivity. After this specialization, you will be able to do anything you are working on better, faster, and achieve incredible results. The...
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Como escolher o melhor para sua carreira
Offered by Unicamp
O curso é fundamentado na ideia de que a sua carreira deve ser administrada de maneira semelhante a que empresas administram seus produtos no mercado. A lógica deste curso se baseia na ideia de que a SUA CARREIRA É O SEU...
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A tanulás tanulása: Hatékony mentális eszközök, melyek segítenek megbirkózni a nehéz tantárgyakkal (Learning How to Learn)
Offered by Szegedi Tudományegyetem
A kurzus olyan, rendkívül hasznos tanulási módszereket mutat be, amelyeket a művészetek, a zene, az irodalom, a matematika, a természettudományok, a sport és más szakterületek művelői használnak. A kurzus során bemutatju...
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Effective Communication Capstone Project
Offered by University of Colorado Boulder
In the Effective Communication Capstone learners apply the lessons of Business Writing, Graphic Design, and Successful Presentation to create a portfolio of work that represents their mastery of writing, design, and spea...
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How to Write a Resume (Project-Centered Course)
Offered by The State University of New York
What you’ll achieve: In this project-centered course*, you will craft an essential cornerstone of the modern-day job or internship search: the resume. You’ll review resume best practices and explore current trends with g...
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Basic Information Literacy
Offered by The State University of New York
Learn how to begin tackling a big project or presentation. Join today and equip yourself with basic information literacy skills to navigate the vast landscape of knowledge to find just what you need. This course will cov...
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Business Writing
Offered by University of Colorado Boulder
Writing well is one of the most important skills you can develop to be successful in the business world. Over seventy companies and thirty thousand students--from professional writers to new employees to non-native Engli...
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Reputation Crisis? Facebook meets Cambridge Analytica
Offered by Erasmus University Rotterdam
Do you remember when you first created your Facebook account? Do you know what happens to the data and stories you share on Facebook? Are you aware of the Facebook – Cambridge Analytica crisis and its ramifications? In t...
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Science Communication: Communicating Trustworthy Information in the Digital World
Offered by Erasmus University Rotterdam
In a world of information overload, how does one find reliable information? Science is supposed to be the answer to our society's complicated challenges. However, as the Covid-19 pandemic highlighted, not understanding w...
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Communication Strategies for a Virtual Age
Offered by University of Toronto
Communication has changed! The traditional rules for speaking and presenting, meeting coordination, influencing people, negotiating and selling ideas no longer apply in a world of skype, messenger, video and teleconferen...
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The Art of Negotiation
Offered by University of California, Irvine
The art of negotiation comes into play daily in the life of employees at all levels and in every position. Participants explore how current approaches to negotiation strategy and tactics are used, what negotiation entail...
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Become a changemaker, build a career with purpose and impact
Offered by HEC Paris
This course is designed to help anyone who wants to make a positive impact on society, but doesn't know how. Whatever your age, academic background or professional context, it will help you find the path that is right fo...
$49.00listed price -
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Meaning Patterns: An Introduction to Multimodal Semiotics
Offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
What is meaning, and how does it work, not just in language but in images, spaces, objects, bodies, sounds, and gestures? This course offers a powerful framework for answering that question: a transpositional grammar of...
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Communication Skills for Engineers
Offered by Rice University
Build a toolkit of communication skills that will give you the knowledge and confidence to be an effective engineering leader. Engineers who want to advance in their profession need to be effective communicators. They ne...
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Como influenciar pessoas
Offered by University of Michigan
Este curso irá aprimorar sua capacidade de influenciar pessoas em situações nas quais não é possível recorrer à autoridade formal. Você aprenderá formas eficazes de criar, desenvolver e manter uma base de poder em sua or...
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Professional Skills: Assessing Conflict
Offered by Arizona State University
Develop the skills to recognize and understand conflict before it escalates. This course helps you identify conflict types, assess reactions, and apply effective resolution strategies. Conflict is unavoidable, but managi...
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Ombudsman: A Unique Role in Dispute Resolution
Offered by University of Colorado Boulder
Do you know what an ombudsman is? Do you know they exist across the entire world? Do you know how an ombuds can help you? In his course, you’re offered a rare look inside the many ways ombuds facilitate building fairness...
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Professional Skills: Negotiation
Offered by Arizona State University
Transform conversations into opportunities. Learn how to negotiate effectively with strategies that help you create win-win outcomes and foster lasting agreements. Strong negotiation skills are vital for closing deals, m...
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Mindfulness: An Approach to Stress Reduction
Offered by Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(KAIST)
The course focuses on developing mindfulness skills and techniques, enhancing self-regulation and self-awareness, and improving body awareness, with a strong emphasis on stress management and attentional skills. It may i...
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Spanish for Successful Communication in Healthcare Settings
Offered by Rice University
Welcome to Spanish for Successful Communication in Healthcare Settings! This course is structured in four modules, each one revolving on a topic related to the physician-patient interaction. Each module contains four les...
$49.00listed price
Best Personal Development MOOC / Non-credit Programs Online compared
Prices shown are the provider's listed price when we last updated this page. Confirm on their site before enrolling.
What the prices here tell you
The 20 priced courses on this page run from $34.99 to $95.00, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $60.01. The options are closely priced, so cost is unlikely to be your deciding factor. A higher price on this page usually reflects who is behind the course rather than how much material it contains, so it is worth opening two or three at different price points and comparing their syllabus before deciding.
Who is behind these courses
These courses come from Coursera and Udemy. The platforms differ in how they sell: some charge once per course, others expect a subscription, and the listed price is not always what you pay at checkout after a promotion. 13 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including Unicamp, Szegedi Tudományegyetem and University of Colorado Boulder — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
Before you enrol
Open the provider’s own page and check three things this comparison cannot tell you: when the course was last updated, what the syllabus actually covers in its later sections, and what recent learners say. Prices shown here are the provider’s listed price when we last rebuilt this page on 18 September 2026 — they change often, and a promotion can move them substantially. We earn a commission if you enrol through our links, which costs you nothing and never affects the order courses appear in.