Incredible Accredited and Free Courses Online On Demand
First, I actually need to create a subtitle for this post, and I’m calling it:
“How to Earn Accreditation With Surprisingly Low Out of Pocket Expenses Using A Platform Trusted by Fortune 500 Companies to Live Your Dream or Boost Your Employment Standing”
Okay, NOW I can get started telling you about Learn.com.
Elearning has never been easier (or less expensive). Learn.com (personal version) offers a vast array of online Accredited courses in:
o Healthcare
o Finance
o Legal
o Insurance
o Ethics
o Compliance
o OSHA
o and more!
They also have a search-able catalog of more than 5,000 additional courses from IT topics to personal development… and more!
You’ll see below that I’m looking around the IT section, but the next one I’ll be investigating will be their courses on health care. Health care and teaching are two valuable employment opportunities no matter where you live or plan to move to… they are just “in demand” fields (so I’ve got to keep that in mind as I look around).
Another amazing feature to using Learn.com online is you can create your own “job profile.” This means you choose your career path and they help you develop the necessary skills to achieve your own dream!
Going yet another step further, if you’re the inventive type and have a course you’ve created, Learn.com will help you sell it. Of course, with such high standards, they do review and qualify you to become a “course author” beforehand which only makes sense.
I just registered – for free - and there are 10 courses immediately available for me – again for free (easy enough to find, after registering and logging in click on Free Courses).
The problem is choosing which one?! Actually you can pick class by class or bundle the whole thing together. For instance, I just clicked on the IT program.
I have 15 choices, and each of them is broken into subcategories. The IT Technology Cisco Certified Network Administrator (CCNA) is further broken down into 13 sub-sections.
I can choose to:
o Take one course at a time at just (hold onto your hats!) $3.99/month or
o Opt for 6 months (giving myself more time for studying the course for just $6.99/month OR
o Select all the sub-courses, take a year to complete them, and pay just $9.99/month.
Now keep in mind, I’ve over here investigating IT because that is my passion. However, there are numerous “passions” to choose from. You can search by:
o Free Courses
o Sub Category
o All Courses by Category
o Or, Create a Course.
What is intriguing to me is THIS just may be the stepping stone your newly graduated son or daughter needs if they are “in between” what to “do next.”
And be selfish! Heck, brush up and/or add more skills to your own personal resume to hang onto your job or find a new one!
Oh, and while I personally am roaming around the “personal account” (again created for free), they also have a “business” signup, too.
Decisions, decisions….
Okay, I think I’ve written enough because, frankly, I want to spend several hours going over my choices and picking the perfect course that applies to me (while keeping my eyes open for our son).
To read their current press release, just click here.
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June 25th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
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June 26th, 2009 at 9:59 am
Hi!…
Told ya!..:P
Seriously, you’ve got a really nice blog…I see a thing or two you’re doing that perhaps I should be as well….Thanks for stopping by my blog…And no, I’ll not be a stranger….Hope you’re having a great day….Peace.
Mike
June 26th, 2009 at 10:10 am
P.S. Your comment went through…and I agree with your point. The point I was making is folks shouldn’t make the mistake of using “borrowed” articles as written, be they from PLR sources or article directories. You’re right, you’ll not get spanked for submitting the same article to a bunch of article directories…However, you will be spanked if you use PLR without making it unique and I feel you lose credibility by posting entire articles written by someone else. I think we’re both saying the same thing, basically…LOL!
June 26th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
I too, was able to review this site. I think it is terrific and can be beneficial to many.
June 28th, 2009 at 11:04 am
I am off to look… I am never adverse to learning…. maybe they will even have courses for my interests.
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June 28th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
I think ongoing learning is important. Having online options is great- so much more convenient!
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June 29th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
This is great news. I’ll be looking at it more closely. I’m always up for learning more or brushing up on skills!
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June 29th, 2009 at 10:08 pm
I could be a perpetual student. I love learning and keeping my brain as active as possible. I’m going to check out this site.
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June 30th, 2009 at 7:06 am
I tried out learn.com, too, and was really impressed with their lessons.
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June 30th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
i did a learn.com lesson too. it was really pretty interesting and informative.
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