Free Online IT Training, Suitable 4 All!!

jimmyjinnal

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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]In partnership with a UK government initiative to attract more people online across England, ALISON would like to introduce you to a free suite of excellent IT learning resources specifically developed for the English public. Through these resources you can improve your IT skills, test how IT literate you are, learn how best to access public services, learn about online jobs and learn how to do transactions online saving you time, money and hassle.

Learn at your own pace. This is rearly usefull for anyone who whants to learn new or brush up on your basic IT skills.
It covers everything you would find in an office suite or just in a home inviroment, ie E-Mails, Wordprocessing.

I interduced this to my mum a few years back when she was not that comfortable with her new PC & it helped her alot.

Hope this is usefull 2 someome. Please post the link if you can!!!!!!!!!!!!
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albionwarrior

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epm-84

This site has been posted before. I signed up on a Project Management Course and couldn't believe how basic it was. I think if you really want to learn something you'd be best of paying a few bob elsewhere than using this site.

LittleVoice

epm-84 wrote: »

This site has been posted before. I signed up on a Project Management Course and couldn't believe how basic it was. I think if you really want to learn something you'd be best of paying a few bob elsewhere than using this site.

Interesting - I started that last night and gave up!

With the amount of advertisements it seemed to take a very long time to get very little course content.

I also thought it had got into a very short loop within the two sections I tried to work through. I assumed it was short-circuiting and that it wasn't complete - especially as no "tick" appeared against the section when I had gone through all the pages that downloaded. Perhaps it was actually that not much information was to be provided.

epm-84

LittleVoice wrote: »

With the amount of advertisements it seemed to take a very long time to get very little course content.

That's part of the point there's hardly anything to learn and what's there isn't exactly challenging.

albionwarrior

That's part of the point there's hardly anything to learn and what's there isn't exactly challenging.

for beginners or those without the resources to buy computer training it is ideal.
curse all you killjoys :rotfl::rotfl:

jimmyjinnal

Thanks albianwarrior, thats what i was thinking. Was starting to feel a little bad for posting. Ps..

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]In partnership with a UK government initiative to attract more people online across England, ALISON would like to introduce you to a free suite of excellent IT learning resources specifically developed for the English public. Through these resources you can improve your IT skills, test how IT literate you are, learn how best to access public services, learn about online jobs and learn how to do transactions online saving you time, money and hassle.
[/FONT]In addition to the excellent suite of free courses available to you on ALISON, You now have free access to extra courses through the MyGuide website.

Will post better links as i get them. Just testing as im new & trying to say thanks!!!

LittleVoice

jimmyjinnal wrote: »

Thanks albianwarrior, thats what i was thinking. Was starting to feel a little bad for posting. Ps..

I thanked you for the reminder in one of the other threads you started on this the other day.

I first came across ALISON a couple or more years ago and looked at the IT courses then. I taught ICT and didn't do the courses myself or use their material for which there would be a charge if used in class (because I had already developed my own) but recall thinking they were quite good. It seems that this for-profit social enterprise may have attracted more advertising since then and that has had an effect on the "concentration" (for want of a better word) of the content. (I.e. learning material diluted by the amount of advertising.) On the other hand it may be that the IT courses don't have the same proportion of advertising as the Project Management one.