Say you have a full-time job, or a part-time one or are a
home maker looking to learn new things to begin a career. Do you feel the need
to step up your knowledge? With the vast internet resources, it probably gets
easy to do that. But when it comes to getting the job that is just right for
you, you might need to streamline what you really want to learn and showcase that
on your profile. There are a number of online learning courses that you can
take up but most of them will probably come with a cost. You might just end up
spending a lot of your time and money in just figuring out what is the best way
to educate yourself. With the vast internet resources available online, there
is more than one opportunity that you can have to widen your understanding and
increase your knowledge base. Let’s take a look at a few online free virtual
schools that you can use to your benefit.
We all
are familiar with TEDx.com but very recently TED has diversified into using
engaging videos on TED-Ed to create customized lessons.
You can use, tweak, or completely redo any lesson featured on TED-Ed,
or even create lessons. They have an interesting section called flip – where you
the teacher can flip his/her own lesson to add more to the existing content and
customize it for the class. Ted Ed has about a total of 131 videos and 9468
flips. Each lesson on TED Ed.com is recorded by an actual educator and an
animator. Know more about TED Ed by watching this video.
With
a library of over 3000 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics,
finance, and history and hundreds of skills to practice, Khan Academy offers
you short and captivating videos in varied subjects to increase your understanding.
Before you can begin focused study on
your major, you must first complete your general education—introductory maths,
modern civics, and some general sciences. The Khan Academy offers these
fundamental courses—Algebra, Macroeconomics, Chemistry—as well as more advanced
fare, like Cryptography, Cosmology, and Finance. The site even features
educational resources that will get you into a real degree program with lessons
on how to ace the SAT, GMAT, and California Standards Test.
Open Culture provides
the tangential cultural experience to transform you into a well-rounded
academic. Links here lead you to 500 free courses in Literature and Philosophy,
alongside Hitchcock movies and film noir.
The NROC is an online database of coursework, contributed by
leading US academic institutions, with a strong focus on the most fundamental
building blocks of a higher education—that is, all the stuff you forgot from
high school. Algebra 1, College Prep Physics, and a litany of AP courses are
all available for free, as well as general education subjects like Non-Majors
Biology, Introductory Calculus I, and Statistics for Social Sciences. While you
won't find video lectures here, NROC offers
complete and extensive courses including notes and homework.
Math may get all the glory for being the "universal
language," but its melodious derivative is a close second. Music theory, a
staple of the liberal arts education, explores the mechanical underpinnings of
music itself. Teoria offers a
bevy of online tutorials, exercises, and analysis of both modern and classical
composition for anyone willing to listen.
However, it is important to keep in mind that none
of this work will get you an actual college degree, which, in some job
interviews, is still valued as a genuine credential.
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