Thursday, April 30, 2015

FREE OR LOW COST ONLINE EDUCATION

Below are some links to some online education sites. Only one is totally free but most have discounts & compared to traditional college & university costs they are cheap!


https://www.udemy.com

Sign up for their newsletter & get a 50% coupon for one course!

http://www.shawacademy.com/

Not cheap but Living Social & Groupon feature discount vouchers that can make these courses very inexpensive.

http://skillcrush.com/

Not cheap but not expensive for what you get. As you learn they coach you & give you leads so you can make money from your budding skills as you learn! All courses are IT related.

https://www.mooc-list.com/

List of free Massive Online Only Courses. 

https://www.khanacademy.org/

Free courses! These are aimed at secondary schoolers but many of us (including moi!) need to refresh our basics or even learn/update a few new things. And for free, why not? 

http://www.openculture.com/

Links to free e-books, free textbooks, free online courses & more!

https://teamtreehouse.com/
Treehouse is an online educational venue for coding, design and related business courses. You get two weeks free to try them out. The fees are quite reasonable: $25.00 a month for the regular plan or $49.00 for the Pro Plan.  Most people would need only the regular plan, especially when they first sign on.

HOW TO GET FREE OR CHEAP E-BOOKS & KINDLES

Want to read free or very low cost e-books? 


Try some of these sites:

Free Kindles Today
(Free Kindle books that are oriented towards online business and self-help)

Buck Books
(e-books for  a buck. Usually has at least one freebie per day.)

Book Bub 
(free and cheap e-books. Never over $2.99)

Free Computer/Tech Books

Open Culture
(Free E-books, e-textbooks, movies and more)

Forgotten Books 
(1 free book download per day. You can download as many as you want with a paid subscription. Read for free online.) 

Google Books
(some free, some not)

Project Gutenberg

Amazon 
(search for free Kindles in the Kindle shop)

OverDrive 
(Borrow e-books, etc. from your public library if you have a library card.)

Digital Books Today
(Lists the top 100 Free e-books)