The Great Free Online Courses Hunt (merged)

Cook_County

The market leaders in really high quality free high quality education today are now in the States.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/73030f44-d4dd-11e1-9444-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2HEr9QuBw

For those interested in degree or masters level try edX
https://www.edx.org/

Otherwise even more fun is coursera
https://www.coursera.org/

keelz

Here is a free drug training course from Kirklees Council, I found it really informative as I'm hoping to work with young people or in social care. It takes a few hours to complete but the only thing is I could not save the certificate at the end, I think it may need to be printed off there and then so now I have to start over when my printer ink has been refilled!;

http://www.drugtrainingforfree.co.uk/default.htm

Also there is Introduction to Mental Health with certificate for completion;
http://www.northlanmindset.org.uk/index.php?pageID=78&reason=loggedin

Autism course with certificate (American)
http://www.autism-society.org/living-with-autism/how-we-can-help/online-courses.html

I've also found SCIE course modules very useful, no certificates but great for improving your knowledge and boosting CV. You can do lots of different modules and they are in a learning log that can be printed off and put in your portfolio, CV.
http://www.scie.org.uk/publications/elearning/index.asp

keelz

Another that might be useful to some people is ACAS free E-Learning there are ten different courses;

Informing and consulting
Discipline and grievance
Managing absence
Contracts and written statements
Handling redundancy
Working parents
Bullying and harassment
Sexual orientation
Religion or belief
Age discrimination
http://www.acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=2113

SavvySarah_3

There are many universities across the world that offer free online courses via Coursera. The courses are predominantly 6-12 weeks in duration, cover a wide variety of topics and are all completely free.

For more information see:

www dot coursera dot org/courses

You can study for accreditation or just for fun. So enjoy!

OneYorkshireLass

https://www.coursera.org/courses

Charlotte49

I signed up for a couple of Coursera courses a while ago. All courses are completely free and I thought it was worth mentioning that all courses come with certification, making them useful for CV's etc.

OneYorkshireLass

Did you sign up for courses with universities based in the UK, or with those in the US?
I was wondering whether it makes much of a difference learning with a US uni (as most of them appear to be US-based).

Cook_County

There are already 9 pages of discussion on this same subject here:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/294426=

including my own post on 6th January which provides even more suggestions:

"The market leaders in really high quality free high quality education today are now in the States.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/73030f44-d...#axzz2HEr9QuBw

For those interested in degree or masters level try edX
https://www.edx.org/

Otherwise even more fun is coursera
https://www.coursera.org/"

georgexino

Another one to look into would be theopenacademy.com

They have a lot of free courses from many good universities, most of them based in the US.

manw95

Thank you very much georgexino. This website was extremely helpful and user-friendly. They have more than 7000 video lectures!!!!Thank you theopenacademy.com.