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Formal, structured schooling might end on your graduation day, but actual learning never ends. No one is ever too old to learn new life skills like baking and making dresses, or even technical skills like digital marketing or coding.
We scoured the web for free online courses that you can sign up and start right away. These are mainly short courses with some including completion certificate at the end. Here are the 28 free online course sites that we will be looking at.
Different people may have different ways of learning, but man’s insatiable thirst to seek and consume new knowledge is universal. Learning never ends for as long as we’re alive, and there’s always something new to learn every single day.
Race and racism are at the forefront of difficult issues and topics to discuss with children. In part because it forces us to confront our own thoughts, ideas and prejudices about the colour of our skin and that of the people around us. Yet it is important that we do address these difficult issues.
More and more schools and educational establishments are looking to virtual solutions for teaching and learning. These tools allow them to schedule and host online events for a large group of viewers with one-to-many live video streaming or a webinar involving a small to medium group of participants.
If you have to be stuck at home, use these apps to start voice and video group calls with your friends and family. Each participant will have their live video feed allowing you to see everyone in the group at the same time. Multiple people in different location can chat with each other. A perfect […]
Music is food for soul. Through the ages, it has been used to express emotions that words on their cannot do sufficient justice. When you are on a long drive, getting bored on a subway, strenuously working out, jogging, or having dinner with friends, music brightens up everyday life.
Although the saying goes, ‘A picture paints a thousand words’, a thousand words also does make a pretty picture. There was a time when word clouds used to sit in the sidebar of most blogs, listing the Categories or Tags in a playful visual.
Latin forms the basis of almost all European languages. While it is no longer a living language, its strict structure and grammar helps learners in their understanding of how the European languages function and have developed.
Make learning science fun for children of all ages with some of the best online YouTube channels focusing on Science.
Blogging or web logging has long been used as a journaling method; the recording of one’s written thoughts and sharing it to the public space.
We pick five of the best free web based online photo editors, no software or plug-ins to install, no online payment or lock-in subscription, just good old photo editing right off your browser.
Tired of the old PowerPoint presentation? Want to make an impact and a lasting impression with your students or teachers? Then, check out these video creation tools that lets you create great animated presentations in next to no time.
Ever wondered how people create and share quotes as images. There is definitely value in creating and displaying these quotes in the education context. Here are some tools to help you do that.
Just for fun, we put Colour My Learning through wordle.net, the web tool that generates your blog or website’s ‘word cloud’ based on the text that actually appears on the feed of your site and this is what we got.
With Coursera, education is free, open, online – and now mobile! Coursera connects students, professionals, and lifelong learners everywhere with free online courses from over 100 top-tier global universities and institutions.
A little nostalgic when writing a review for an app that I personally installed on my iPad 1 so my little girl can learn a thing or two from it.
When I taught in Tertiary Education, one of the biggest challenges, I and many of my colleagues faced was plagiarism by students across all years of their Undergraduate studies.
More and more teachers and educator are starting their own blog to publish education related content from lesson plans, course materials to video tutorials. This provides the students that they teach, access to targeted learning resources. Being on a blog also meant that these resources are available online for other students and schools. This indirectly […]
We look at the top 10 video sharing sites that are free and how you can make use of these for education purposes.