Smartly: Free Business Courses
WHAT IS SMARTLY?
Smartly is a online learning platform and offers a fully-mobile MBA – that’s completely free. We deliver fast, focused, and comprehensive business curriculum to help you move forward in your career—now. It's everything you need to take your career to the next level, switch jobs, impress your colleagues, or start your own successful business.
WHAT’S DIFFERENT ABOUT SMARTLY?
On Smartly, you'll improve your business skills by learning and doing at the same time, without the boring videos. Smartly is a "learning by doing" platform that makes learning fun, intuitive, and never over-complicated. While taking a lesson, our users engage with the content an average of every 8.9 seconds. Smartly reinforces concepts, and provides examples, feedback, and new perspectives—the perfect resource to master business skills and gain experience outside of business school or the workplace.
WHAT CAN YOU LEARN ON SMARTLY?
Aligned with the world's leading business schools, the MBA degree comprises courses across 9 core business concentrations including Finance, Marketing, Management and Entrepreneurship. Each concentration contains numerous courses, with up to 120 interactive, feedback-based lessons between 5 and 10 minutes in duration. Lesson topics include:
• The fundamentals of an MBA program
• How to be a better leader or manager
• Making decisions based on data
• Applying economics to business
• Marketing and pricing your products and services
• Finance and accounting for your business
• Elevating your business strategies
• Optimizing operations to maximize value
• Becoming a successful entrepreneur
• Plus, new courses are added all the time!
WHO SHOULD DOWNLOAD SMARTLY?
Download Smartly if you have an interest in switching careers, getting ahead in your career, and generally improving your business knowledge and skills in a fun, intuitive way.
WHAT ARE PEOPLE SAYING ABOUT SMARTLY?
• ”In my 10 years in the education world, Smartly offers the best, most engaging learning experience of anything I’ve seen." Michael Horn, Co-Founder, Clayton Christensen Institute
• ”Wonderful way of teaching in the best possible way in the least possible time!"
- Prerana, Smartly Student
• ”GREAT stuff! Love the way the info is divided into digestible chunks. The animations are really beautiful, easy and fun. LOVE THIS!"
- Kate, Smartly Student
• ”The interactive format makes learning/review more interesting and allows for better retention of key concepts. So much better than reading from a textbook!"
- Richmond, Smartly Student
• “I’ve been living under a rock
- @SmartlyHQ decodes [online] study for people like me who have short attention spans. #NoVideosOrPPTs” – MBA candidate 2015, INSEAD
• “…I want to begin each day going through this program…” – MBA candidate
• “I love [the] courses! They are super interactive, and I love the touch of humor you guys put into the cases, it definitely makes it much more fun and interesting. Love it!” – Valerie, entrepreneur
• “Excellent on the go learning app. Excellent way of teaching…” – Mohsin, business learner
• “… It is interactive, fun and does not over-complicate things, perfect for me….!” – MBA candidate Class of 2016, INSEAD
WHAT ARE THE REQUIREMENTS TO USE THE SMARTLY APP?
To use Smartly you must be connected to the Internet. We recommend a 3G, 4G or Wi-Fi connection for optimal use of the Smartly mobile app.
Category : Education
Reviews (28)
It's so amazing 😍 learning on this app while putting in the practice on my daily role. I love that this is not just a bunch of abstract, but real world courses with practical examples.
The Quantic app is actually the best educational app I've ever seen. The experience, for me, is unique and I usually get to spend more time in the app than what's planned because learning in the app is fun, interesting and unconventional. Plenty thumbs up for the Quantic Team!
Learning experience is top notch. Very interactive, fun and easy to understand. They make MBA look so fun and easy.
Content is intensely insightful while delivery is very flexible. Intake of new concepts much faster on Quantic's platform than through traditional tuition delivery methods. Love it.
Super app! An option to prompt a calculator whenever needed would add more convenience when learning on the app. Great work !
I love the way the lessons are being treated in a fun and engaging style. For someone who has been learning online for a long time, I must say this is really great!
Learning takes place faster, easier, exciting, and challenging.
I love everything about the app. It is easy to use and navigate around. I especially love the lessons and the at one's pace learning method. It is my go to place whenever I need to refresh about certain topics.
Great making learning available anytime and anywhere. Also very engaging which makes my learning interesting.
Amazing experience! Beautiful user interface and very rich educational content. 👌
I have never experienced an interactive online learning platform like before. Content is well presented using very few words and still carries the message across. Examples used make learning so easy and useful to everyday life for any upcoming entrepreneure or even those already in the pipeline.
Very easy and friendy to use. A lot of great content as well.
The app is very simple and easy to use with no ads to distract you from learning
Very interactive and easy to navigate!
Interesting piece meal right sized user friendly learning app.
Smartly is an amazing learning platform. I have an insanely busy schedule, so long video lectures are difficult for me to consume. Smartly offers an awesome alternative with short, interactive exercises that are easy to understand and build on each other in logical ways. It's very effective for understanding and retaining the matetrial. And I can easily incorporate learning into the nooks and crannies of my day. I'm loving it!!
The level of effort that is gone into developing this app is appreciated and not overlooked. I often treat this software similar to having textbooks in my pocket and on the go. As one is working through various business models, with only a few clicks, It allows the user to refer back to stay on course. Provides the added confidence to know you are prepared for any impromptues that come up.
Very interesting, useful and hard to put down. I would recommend this app for everyone, even if you are familiar with the material it is a great refresher. There are a few glitches that should be delt with. example sometimes the page gets stuck centered to the left or right not allowing you to see anything including what you are typing when answering questions. I was able to go to the previous question and then reload the question.
This app is such a game changer for online learning. The micro courses can be completed quickly while doing almost anything (cooking, channel surfing, etc). And the content is top notch as well. I have an iPad in addition to my Android phone and the app synchronizes seamlessly between the 2 devices so I can start a lesson on one device and finish up on the other.
the app is very helpful for learning on the go although an internet connection is required. initially I had problems syncing it to the full website and ended up doing 1 course twice. would be nice if the app allowed you to download your certificates once the course is complete, the learning itself is convenient and easy to understand and delivers clear and useful information.
A great way to learn for those of us who have many competing priorities. It's really like having someone guide you through an MBA program on your phone. Wrong answers are explained and right answers are reenforced with additional notes. I love the colorful display. It can be habit forming, but in a good way.
This app has improved me strategically and I am really looking forward to finish the courses I have not completed at the moment. Whether you have a solid background in business related courses or not, this app creates an equalisation for all, explaining each subject with clarity and in ways that makes the process of conceptualizing what you are taught, easy and by yourself. I really wish I found this app a long time ago.
Great app. Very easy to use. Nice for virtual study
It's a new but efficient way of learning though your phone, the lessons are fun and useful, and the content is always in point with relevant and specific examples to aid understanding. I really hope to be accepted to their MBA but if not, I'll make use of all the free courses they offer.
It's very easy to navigate and user friendly for a learning platform
Smartly is a fantastic opportunity to pursue a freat education for an amazing price. Even just the entry level courses are worth taking if you don't want an MBA. The app is smooth and easy to navigate through your application, network, and classes. They gamified learning similar to Duolingo but for an entire college education. Notifications for class and updates woek great too! :)
I'm very impressed by the educational technique that Quantic uses. It's digital, gamified, nice on the eye and fun to use and all that, but the really important thing is the way it uses reinforcement to help knowledge and understanding to stick. I did the early parts of a course 2 years ago then picked it up again this year, and it felt as if I'd been working on it yesterday! Also the social & community aspects of the institution are amazing - 400 really talented people from around the world!
This is a perfect fit for my needs. I am enjoying the short bursts of education every now and then throughout the day when ever I get a little bit of time. It's well designed to be fed to students in tidbits, so people in a time consuming job can take part more comfortably, yet as it acumulates, the learning is comparable to other great universities. Hope they keep improving!