The Great Free Online Courses Hunt (merged)

barri_2

Vision2learn not available in Scotlan, Wales or Northern Ireland yet.

enor

Wikiversity is a sister project to Wikipedia. It has loads of learning materials on a wide variety of subjects.

Aril

From personal experience some learndirect courses are free but terms and conditions apply.
Aril

aliasgill

If you are able to download podcasts, (I do via iTunes store) there are loads of subjects covered which allow you to learn via podcasts and/or linked websites.

They are not recognised courses, but most of them are free and produced by enthusiastic experts who love what they do. The standard of the podcasts is variable, but I have learnt quite a bit including improving my Photoshop skills, yoga, meditation, health and fitness

mleonard79

Not entirely free but if you live in Scotland you can get an Individual Learning Account (ILA) which gives you £200 to spend on courses if you earn under £15k or £100 if you earn over £15k. All you actually have to pay is the first £10 of the cost of the course. I'm currently taking a night class at a uni (so a good quality course) which costs £120 and with this it only cost me £10 - pretty good! I'm not sure if they run a similar scheme in England, Wales or N Ireland though. You can use the grant for pretty much any course at any college or uni as far as I know. Link for Scottish one pasted below:

http://www.ilascotland.org.uk/ILA+Homepage.htm

Regards

Michelle

PeterTheBike

The Open University has financial support for their courses if your circumstances are applicable. This can mean a course is free in some cases.

Also, they have now started making educational resources freely available through OpenLearn.

OpenLearn provides:

• online free learning material taken from Open University courses
• state-of-the-art learner support
• tools connecting learners with learners and learners with educators
• learning media and technologies on a large scale

OpenLearn does not:

• require you to become an Open University student
• grant degrees or award credits
• provide access to the services available to students registered on Open University courses

Seraphim

Iffy_Wallet wrote:

Welcome to MIT's OpenCourseWare

The Open University have launched their version of OCW. It's available here -> http://openlearn.open.ac.uk

It's only been up for about a week, and the number of modules available is still growing. There's a mix of both undergraduate and post-grad materials If you are feeling particularly clever, you can also visit their sister site labspace and help improve the modules that are already available

angoraki

There is a very good Greek language course on the web at:

http://kypros.org/LearnGreek/

liz545

Murray wrote:

Beginners Spanish or French would be best. I know a little bit of French (GCSE level) but I think I'd be better to start from scratch because my GCSE's were a bit longer ago than I'd care to remember!

CoolGorilla do free phrase packs that you can download to your computer or mp3 player, if you have one. You can get them here: http://www.coolgorilla.com/free-ipod-software-languages.html
The 'Teach Yourself' cd's are quite good, your local library may have them? I recommend 'Instant Spanish' by Elizabeth Smith.

Fairygold

Employment law e-learning suitable for small businesses or line managers from


http://www.acas.org.uk

It cover issues such as absence management, disciplinary and grievance procedures, maternity rights.