Saving on Education & Training

Thommy_Hughes

Hey, would like to get a thread going about educational material & upskilling. I'm looking to switch jobs now and have been spending a lot of time online researching different ways to learn online for cheaps. Does anyone have any stories to share about this?

To start I'll share the fruit of my research.

1. A great place to start seems to be YouTube with plenty of material about online marketing, dropshipping etc. plenty of free material.

2. Online education platforms. Most of the better platforms cost money, but since they're always competing with eachother there's often some promotions going on on atleast 1 of them. The 2 cheapest ones I've used

• BitDegree[currently free] plenty of courses about programming, developing, digital marketing, social media and stuff like that. Mostly spend my time on here.
• Udemy [cheap] courses about anything and everything, they're usually running a promotion with discounted courses. Sometimes the course is quite garbage though, check reviews before buying.

Anyways, anyone has more forums,online platforms, coupons etc to share? Want to continue learning cuz i hate my !!!!ing job. :beer:

GreenQueen

If you're looking for business and technical courses - Microsoft office/web design, etc at all levels, https://www.lynda.com has some brilliant courses.

They do a free 1 month trial, and if you want to carry on after that I think it's around £20 a month. You can access a few selected courses after you trial ends, but I just used the free month to access some specific Wordpress training I was after.

GreenQueen

Sorry, pressed enter too early....

Also, for motivation and broader education rather than straight training, try TED talks, but be careful, you can get dragged into all kinds of esoteric subjects - "can a computer write poetry?", anybody?

littlegreenparrot

I love TED talks, the randomness appeals to me

Check out Future Learn website. Fascinating, large collection of courses. If I didn't have to work full time would be all over it.

It's an Open University off shoot. You can pay for courses and be certified, or do older ones for free. Or at least used to, been a while since I looked at it.

I would also look at part time adult education at your local college, they should be recruiting for Sept starts.

herbily

If you're looking for something quite techy, there's the MITx open courses: https://www.edx.org/school/mitx


There is a range of free courses, and you only pay if you want the certificate to prove you've done it. There's an entrepreneur course on there, if that's your kind of thing.