The Great Free Online Courses Hunt (merged)

derekacorah

i wanted to do the vision2learn one but was turned down because im not
employed. im a stay at home mum,who wants to better herself,so this rule seems pointless to me...?!?:mad: :mad: :mad:

caroline1973lefty

If you don't qualify for free Open University courses, and/or just want to learn for fun/personal development rather than gaining a qualification, you might be interested in this site:

http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/

they have recently put a huge amount of their course materials on this site, free to access for everybody.

Note - if you want to go a step further and actually sit exams & qualify with them, you will need to enroll, and pay - unless you qualify for a fee rebate, as the earlier poster suggested. From memory, the rebates are quite generous (and even apply if you've already got a degree) fees are paid in full for single people if you earn less than £15k, you get some rebate up to earnings of £25k, earning limits are higher if you have a family. also I'd agree with the earlier poster that if you don't qualify for fee rebates it is still REALLY worth enrolling. I'm on a course at the moment and the quality of materials & support is very high indeed. I believe the OU outperformed every other university on 'value for money' in a recent survey of students.

Lastly, if you are a member of a trade union, quote 'union' to get 10% off your course fees.

caroline1973lefty

oops sorry just seen the post by seraphim (thought i had done a search) so sorry if my info is just duplication.

trade union members /activists might also be interested in this site from the TUC - lots of information including free online courses in health & safety, learning reps, equalities issues, etc (you will need your employers support if you are looking to do the course during working hours)

http://www.unionlearn.org.uk/

mike_paterson

There are a whole load of tutorials on various subjects at http://www.pixel2life.com/ and I strongly recommend the blindingly good http://www.w3schools.com/ for IT related training.

keefyboy_2

Does anyone know of a free sign language course that I can learn at home. I am disabled so therefore unable to commute anywhere, and medically unable to work again so I have to live on benefits, and I have lost all the hearing in my right ear and 90% in the left, and I am trying to learn SL before I go totally deaf

competitionscafe

As well as the excellent BBC French courses posted earlier the University of Texas free online course is also excellent - indeed better than many courses which I have actually paid for!
http://www.laits.utexas.edu/fi/html/toc/00.html

competitionscafe

keefyboy wrote:

Does anyone know of a free sign language course that I can learn at home.

Not free but £15 for a 7 week online course, perhaps you could contact them and ask if they would make a concession for somene on benefits?
http://www.waterfallrainbows.co.uk/shop/store/catalog/product_info.php/products_id/54

Gwenynwyr

Hewlett Packard have masses of free tuition covering photography, computing and printing etc. I tried the basic Photoshop course and was well impressed.

http://h30240.www3.hp.com/?mcID=email

hughlss

hi, just joined the forum.

I've been using the following site for language tuition, on-and-off - it has free tuition for an enormous number of different languages and directs you to different free (and 'pay' sites):

http://www.word2word.com/coursead.html

regards,
Hugh

Bluedan

Has anyone done this course, if so can they tell me a bit more about it?