Free Online Courses

I've taken various courses online for free at Open2Study.com. They last for a month and have four modules for each courses. If you pass the assessment test per module, you're going to receive a certificate from them and this is also free. I took up courses like Writing for the Web, Big Data, Financial Literacy, Diagnosing the Financial Health of a Business, Robotics, Games Development, Project Management, etc. I've also studied programming courses at Codecademy and Guru99.com.

 

I really admire the companies that commit themselves to this kind of practice. It's something of extreme necessity for people who can not afford courses (relatively expensive at most ) and they are always very helpful.

Speaking from my own experience, I've done several online courses and all my experiences have been great.

 

These courses can be a great way to save money on tutoring. However, though, it often comes to a point where students still need don't get the answers they need. In that case, there is still a huge demand for one-on-one tutoring.

@Jamille That's awesome, but nonetheless, employers might not respect these free certificates, or at least, not to a significant degree.

 

@Jamille I am impressed with all the courses that you have taken. I would love to take some courses especially if they are free. I am going to check out these sites and see what is available that would interest me. Thanks for sharing them all. I can see how employers might not think that the free certificates would be as good as the ones that people have taken college courses to earn. This would be my first thought about them too.

 

@Jason76 Maybe not, but prospective employers will appreciate the fact that a person is exerting efforts to improve his/her skills and knowledge. They're obviously not equivalent to a bachelor's degree, but so are the seminars that we're required to attend every now and then to complete our CPD requirements for our profession. I don't really need the certificate, but it's a bonus and it gives me bragging rights to to include the course in my list of seminars. And oh, you can actually take 4 or 6 courses in a month if you want to. The online free courses at open2study.com last for a month but it only runs for about 8 hours and the schedule is flexible. You can even finish a course in one day if you want to but you'll have to wait at the official closing of the course to download the certificate. What's more, I'm getting used to the Australian accent.

@kaka135 , you can also try printing worksheets from superteacherworksheets.com if you're child is in pre-school or elementary. They save me a lot of time and they're free, too. (I just love free stuff.)

 

Yes, and I would check out some of the free YouTube tutorials-and it seems like you can learn languages or things like math skills which are very important for kids and people in general. You could look into something like proofreading skills if you are a writer as well-also I think you could explore some fun things for your kids-like making paper airplanes which would be quite interesting.