The Great Free Online Courses Hunt (merged)

Doonhamer

Siemens have some online training material that is great for basic electrical stuff like motors, PLC's, electricity etc. It is based around their own products but still good.

Here it is.

jessicann

Thanks everyone this has all been a great help. If anyone knows of any free/cheap media courses could you tell me? Thanks! :j

morlandbanks

Murray wrote:

I might be pushing my luck here but are there any free language courses that lead to qualifications/certificates?

I'd be interested in finding a Spanish beginners course that would lead to a qualification.

While I search for one - and save the money for the £110 a term fee at my local college - I'm using https://www.studyspanish.com I'm finding it really helpful.

Lance_DeBoyle

I use EleMadrid for free monthly elementary Spanish lessons. Further courses can be paid for.
http://www.elemadrid.com/spanish_language.htm?pid=1046&lid=37

tinkerbell212

On the following website you can follow a course which is all about Neuro Linguistic programming. Basically the principal is that subconsiously you can influence things that happen in your life, a bit what Paul McKenna does. If only you would follow this course to learn how to relax and meditate it would have great benefits for you! I followed the extended version and paid about £700 for it at the time. They now have a free online version and it is really interesting to do. If you can do it with a friend it is even more fun, you'll be amazed at the results!! See what you think (but try to have an open mind!!)
http://www.silvaultramindsystem.com/

sra

Just saw Free Academic Podcasts
(See also the comments on the Digg post about this - where a few more other podcasts are mentioned)

Not courses you can sign up for though - it's the podcasts offered by Uni's to their students - so you could follow along if you wanted.

As it says, the easiest way is to download Itunes and subscribe
(You could also subscribe to MSE's podcast - see here)

Great_2_Run

iamsam wrote:

Not as far as I can remember... I ran the Great Edinburgh Run, which is where I found out about it, but didn't think it was a requirement (I don't remember them asking when I signed up).

Dear All,

Just to clarify, you don't have to be taking part in a Great Run event to take part in the Great 2 Run course.

Great 2 Run is a partner organisation of Great Run events and offers information and guidance on preparing for running events in a safe and effective way.

The course is currently free of charge, and we have limited places available on a first come first served basis. It is studied via distance learning, you are provided with all your learning materials on a DVD which includes your 20 week training programme. Support on the course is offered via our partner College, Newcastle College.

To enrol, visit https://www.great2run.org

Kind regards,

The Great 2 Run Team

sanya1995

i am new student to law and would appreciate if somebody knew anything about law courses.

thanks

sweet'sis'

does anybody knowany free or cheap courses of IT or Office(MS office,customer serivice,and other skills) courses,please do tell
i have tried vision 2 learn but the courses r not available in my area,and i m not working

kberry_78

Learndirect has on offer many free courses but for some of them you need to meet the criteria

For Basic Skills ( Literacy and Numeracy to Level 2, GCSE A,B,C). These courses are free as long as you do not already have an A,B,C in Math and English.

IT courses are only free if you are on benefits AND are pre- level 2 ( 4 or less gcse's). Some learndirect centres put aside some of their budget for people who will do the IT courses in order to gain a qualifaction, so even if u have a higher than Level 2 qual, u may be able to do it for free.

Level 1 = less than 4 GCSE PASSES
Level 2 = 5 or more GCSE PASSES, OR 1 A LEVEL OR NVQ LEVEL 2, HNC
Level 3 = HND, Degree

I can't remeber any others as after level 2 the list grows, when I get back into my office I'll update this. I'll also update for customer services and other courses.

Hope it helps