It’s COVID -19 season which means we are all staying home except for our front liners and other essential workers who are out there keeping us safe. Staying at home also means more time to take care of ourselves and probably discover our creative juices. While most of us would love to watch movies, check up on friends and chat on our social media platforms, It will also be wise to do some learning to keep the brain active while also picking up new skills to enable us remain relevant in our various endeavors.
The internet is full of information which can sometimes lead to confusion because you may not know the appropriate places to search. We have taken the time to do the search for you while you do the learning.
Find below some online courses we have compiled for you. What’s more, is that most of the courses are free. Beautiful right!
Education
- University of Iowa International Writing program
The IWP’s FREE MOOCs offer opportunities for interactive learning in creative writing and literature to unlimited numbers of participants around the world.
These courses are available free of charge; there are no registration fees.
http://www.distancelearningiwp.org/moocpacks
- Ucreative
Ucreative offers free online graphic design tutorials that feature a variety of lessons and step-by-step instructions
- Khan Academy
Khan Academy is a nonprofit with the mission to provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. KHAN Academy offers unlimited free courses. It’s also great exam prep for SAT, GMAT and MCAT .
- noexcuselist.com
This site is the best place on the web to learn anything, free. Noexclusive is an amazing platform with collections of best sites to learn anything ranging from arts, music, education and lots more
- WorldQuant University
WorldQuant University is an international not-for-profit advancing global education in data sciences.The mission of WorldQuant University is to make advanced, quality education accessible to capable students everywhere by leveraging technology at scale to deliver entirely online, tuition-free programs.
https://wqu.org/programs/data-science
- Class Central MOOCReport
90 free Online Courses to improve your writing skills
Whether you’re preparing for university studies, drafting resumes and cover letters, writing sales emails, or trying to preserve your own memories, you need to be able to communicate through writing. Fortunately, free courses abound to guide you in your writing journey.
https://www.classcentral.com/report/writing-free-online-courses/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
Covid-19 and Emergency response
- Physiophulus
Physioplus provides practicing physiotherapist/physical therapist with the knowledge, practices and skills to allow them to play a proactive role in global and local efforts to reduce the impact of this pandemic.
https://members.physio-pedia.com/learn/
- OpenWHO online course platform
OpenWHO is WHO’s new interactive, web-based, knowledge-transfer platform offering online courses to improve the response to health emergencies. OpenWHO enables the Organization and its key partners to transfer life-saving knowledge to large numbers of frontline responders.
Leadership
- IHI Open School
IHI Open School online courses are FREE for individual students, residents, and faculty, as well as members of the Least Developed Countries as categorized by the United Nations.
http://www.ihi.org/education/IHIOpenSchool/Courses/Pages/SubscriptionInformation.aspx
International Development
- TechChange
TechChange provides online professional development in technology and social change around the world, they connect implementers in public health, emergency response, and monitoring and evaluation with relevant content, experts, and certification using facilitated learning platform. Some available free courses are Art of Advocacy, Mobile Data Solutions and lots more.
https://www.techchange.org/about/
- Nonprofit Expert
Non Profit expert specializes in content that propels organizations of all sizes to grow. Nonprofit Expert delivers exclusive content related to fundraising strategy, nonprofit technology, nonprofit management and more.
https://www.nonprofitexpert.com/
Sexual and Reproductive Health
- The Minimum Initial Service Package (MISP) for Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) distance learning module
This course offered by Women’s Refugee Commission, IAWG aims to increase humanitarian actors’ and stakeholders’ knowledge of the priority SRH services that must be initiated at the onset of a humanitarian crisis and scaled up for equitable coverage throughout protracted crises and recovery.
https://iawg.net/resources/minimum-initial-service-package-distance-learning-module
Now you have it! Learn at your pace and keep us posted on your progress.
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