Knowledge is POWER! Free Online Courses
Knowledge is POWER!
Growing up I hated school. As an un-diagnosed dyslexic I felt so uncomfortable reading, spelling, learning that I completely rejected every aspect of education. I felt I was just NOT that clever and I learnt to ‘get by’. What I mean by getting by, I mean covering my mistakes just enough that I did not get in trouble. I got diagnosed aged 30 when I returned to collage. This changed everything for me. I no longer apologize for my grammar or spelling mistakes. Now I just say ‘oh yeah, I can’t see that, I am dyslexic’.
Although I rejected school, I still would read. As a child I did not learn to read till almost 9, something I covered over as I felt I was stupid compared to my cousins who were all so ahead of me. However, once it clicked I read everything that was not school related. Looking back, I see I was still educating myself but in my own way. When I went back to collage as a mature student I was awaken to a world of learning. I learnt how to read medical articles which took me four years as they once looked like double dutch to me. Learning this skill was an opening to a new world for me. I fell in love with learning. I went on to do a post-grad and now I see this was something I did to prove to myself that ‘I could do it’.
I now love learning. Tell me an illness and I will research multiple medical articles to learn the in’s and out’s. I have recently enrolled in my next step in learning after saving a year to do this course! Sometimes learning is extremely expensive. However there are many free resources available, courses that you can put on your CV. I count us extremely lucky as a country that many third level courses are free. My bachelors degree was completely free except the costs of collage life. My post grad was funded by the HSE when I was working as a nurse. One of my sisters went to collage in London and paid for her masters. The costs are insane. So I always remind myself to be grateful.
The blog post today is to guide you to some free online courses. This is not a promotion or affiliate marketing post but just me giving you a little helping hand in guiding you to free online courses.
eCollege is an Irish Government funded online training facility. It provides a range of free online courses with certificates, available at your own pace. Courses delivers online training courses in :
- information technology
- business
- project management
- sustainability
- graphic design
- software development
- basic computer skills
Local Enterprise Office provide an extensive range of courses to small businesses and entrepreneurs with new business ideas. These include
- Start your own business programme
- Accelerate management development programme.
- food academy programme
Eventbrite. The ticket selling website have a range of webinars and lectures available often for free.
Alison. Thousands of free and accredited online courses with diplomas and certificates.
The Open University: Have a range of courses you can do for free in money and business, education and development, health, sports and psychology, history, languages, nature, science, math etc.
Harvard Online: Game development, Longitude, Computer Science, AI with Python and my favorite The Science of Corresponding with busy People and so many more.
There are far too many to name but I am adding a list below to website names to have a look at what is available:
Trinity College
Coursera
Udemy
Stanford Online
Reed
Elementsofat
Class Central
Yale University
AND so many more….. Just Google ‘free online courses’.
