Free Online Classes or training
 

per request, here is a thread. I'll be back to list some later tonight or in the morning.


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Cool and in advance, thank you.

For starters, MIT Open Coursewear


and OpenLearn

and free courses from Yale.


searchable MOOC list.

Some of that looks cool. Like statistics in physics. Keep 'em coming!
ahhh, if you find animal care . . .

this is the one Helena was going to post

coursera

THIS ONE IS REALLY GOOD PEOPLE!!!! :science:

Stormie, one of the search categories in the MOOC list is Veterinary and that brought up:

Dog Emotion and Cognition (Coursera)
Created by: Duke UniversityDelivered by:Coursera
Taught by:Brian Hare
Dog Emotion and Cognition will introduce you to the exciting new study of dog psychology, what the latest discoveries tell us about how dogs think and feel about us, and how we can use this new knowledge to further strengthen our relationship with our best friends.



which is what reminded me to post Coursera - search both links! :elephant:

YES i just saw that and it is FREE unless I want them to post a stupid certificate I don't need. I know some of that stuff but who cares I can skip what I know.
THANKS!

@stormie did you ever take any of the classes? so far I have not but I keep meaning to.

yes I did. It was not too bad - online stuff can be tedious and this was less so. I learned stuff!

do you want to talk about what you took? was it dog related?

Yes, yes it was. Dog emotion and cognition Don't you ever get bored by my 100% predictability???? I try not to talk about dogs all the time

I LOVE PIT BULLS

The problem with video classes is that there's no-one to interact with, and that some parts I know and get bored by, so I stop paying attention, and the next thing you know I missed something I don't know. The paid courses include real time online interaction.

OOh squirrel! I mean, music theory! that's next!

I take it you didn't pay and just did the free video? you can back up and re-watch what you missed, right?

Yes - in the end I don't miss anything.

I went to the community college to check out some free classes tonight. No-one asks questions. I always ask questions. If I didn't ask questions it would be the same as a video class, only less comfortable. Not for me then!

Are you going to try the video thing? They have, like, everything. Most things anyway. Maybe not 'Literary Analysis of The Plays of Euripides'. No-one wants that.

this link to free classes is from the PSA Glazer posted. it's called skillshare.com

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Cool.

I just had a problem with a dog, so I am going to pursue certification. This is a good time for free classes!

Check their terms of service. I think if you're seeking any kind of certification or certificate of completion then there are fees involved.

yeah I guess that doesn't work. I just started a thread about it.
But I could learn more for free! :science:

Like I said check them out. I believe you can pay for the certs after you've completed the courses. So learn what you need to learn and if you need to prove yourself then pay for the diploma.

maybe. but there is a two month free trial of "premium" for whatever that's worth.

I NEED to learn something, soon, my brain is all rusty. :astonished:

you did? where?

http://saylor.org - I haven't tried it.

http://khanacademy.org - It looks like it's for kids, but there's some college-level stuff.

http://udemy.com - the last time I looked it was free, but now you have to pay for courses. It seems to have a lot of tech courses. Today, at least, the ones on the front page are on sale for between $10.99 and $13.99. It's still a good deal.

https://www.edx.org/ - Top universities.

https://www.edx.org/school/harvardx - Take free classes from Harvard!

Here, Jackie

I saw it eventually. :haw:

I NEED to learn something, soon, my brain is all rusty. :astonished:[/QUOTE]


Duolingo?

I just signed up for a udemy course in aerospace engineering. At $11, it looks like a deal.

I haven't tried any of these but they look interesting (from Big Think): https://bigthink.com/surprising-scie...1#rebelltitem1

I finished the aerospace engineering class. Parts of it were very good, but in parts of it he spent way too long a time on high school level stuff like what is wavelength. Worth the $11 bucks, but not much more.

Now I'm trying to find a good class with homework on control theory.

Found a bunch of lectures by Brian Douglas on youtube on control theory. But having to relearn a bunch of math that I've forgotten.

I've been using Khan academy pretty heavily for the math, so I donated on their donation page. They've seen a huge spike in usage and they have asked for help.

If anyone is planning a vegetable garden this year, here is a free class to take! :science:


ETA, try this link instead. :sciencefail:

https://pace.oregonstate.edu/catalog...-course-series

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My streak at Khan Academy is now 100 days. I've been doing Calculus and Electronics.

thank you for reminding me, I started on there and then forgot to go back.

good for you for donating, btw.

Well, my streak at Khan ended during the vacation in Jellystone Park, since phone and WiFi were few and very far between.

But my streak is now back to four days.

Besides attending classes on Cousera and EDX, I've enjoyed teaching and learning on Udemy and SkillShare.

Udemy and SkillShare courses are generally taught by non teachers, but rather people like me with lots of experience in a particular field. If you're a professional or even just someone with lots to say about your favorite hobby, you might try out becoming an instructor.

I'm starting a class on Udemy right now.

thank you for this, @NoClueBoy, I somehow missed it when you posted. Do you want to share what subject/s you teach?

anyone with an interest in geology in general and the PNW specifically should be watching Nick Zenter. He is currently livestreaming on youtube twice a week from his backyard, Fridays at 2 PM and Sundays at 9 AM.

I've paid for the last two classes I took, a birding class from Portland's Hoyt Arboretum which was excellent and a beginning ecology class from Treesong Nature Awareness and Retreat Center which was also excellent. They made me realize how many classes from local places like that must be out there, if only I could find them.

although my budget really got busted with those two and I need to go back to free classes. :ohdear:

so I bumped this thread. :science:

My streak at Khan is 60 days now. It was over 100, but the trip to Yellowstone blew that up when the area around Lake Yellowstone had no phone connection at all.

Currently working through second derivatives. Sal goes about them waaaaay differently than my teachers did back in school.

I am bumping this thread again to encourage myself.

@NoClueBoy I'd really like to hear what you teach. same for anyone else who is good enough to teach others, that has to be at least some of you! :science:

Any free bartending courses? I'm vaguely thinking about a career change.

Here's a convenient aggregation of useful breadcrumb trails from a wonderful resource, openculture.com :

1,700 Free Online Courses from Top Universities

A quick Googling of "free online bartending course" reveals oodles of options. Here are a few from Page One, and there are of course oodles of others available just a highlight-and-right-click away:

https://barsandbartending.com/bartending-school-online/

https://easycowork.com/career-planni...asses-courses/

https://www.typsy.com/courses/bartending-for-beginners

One thing that seems a common thread there is the advice that a pretty good memory and a gregarious personality are two prerequisites for a successful bartending career that no-one can teach you. But if you've got both of those, then it's just learning a few techniques and memorizing a few dozen recipes. And, I guess, figuring out how to work your employer's POS systems.

Thank you.

Hopefully my memory is good enough. It might not be. I'm terrible with names too. That could be a problem. I can probably memorize the recipes pretty fast.

WOW, what an amazing site. Thank you.

Agreed - thank you for sharing.

:hattip: Like I always say, "The only thing better than cool stuff is FREE cool stuff."

Well, I don't always say that. In fact I very rarely say that. Okay, never have I ever actually said that.

But still: free cool stuff! :thumbs:

I started my next online course. This is MITx 16.893x: Engineering the Space Shuttle. It is a systems engineering class using the space shuttle as the example. It looked interesting from the gitgo, but when I saw that one of the lectures was by Chris Craft (legendary creator of how space missions are controlled) I had to take it. This place has good network connection, so the videos are running find so far.

The class is being provided by edX, which is a collaboration between MIT, Harvard and over 150 other institutions of higher learning.

First section done. Learned a lot about the history of the shuttle. Including one really strange fact: It was Cap Weinberger (yes that Cap Weinberger) that convinced Nixon to support the shuttle. And the reasons for it had nothing to do with technological advancement or low cost access to space.

Watched the Chris Kraft lecture today. This is the guy who invented Mission Control as we know it. Very smart guy with some strong opinions. It was an awesome lecture. Sadly the class is almost over, just the wrapup session left to go.

Finished the Systems Engineering class about the Space Shuttle. This class knocked it out of the park in terms of quality of material and presenters. Final grade was 98%. Would have been higher, but they kept changing which day of the week assignments were due and I missed one because it was due on Wednesday and I thought it was due on Friday.

In spite of that, an amazing class. Most of the lectures on the various subsystems were presented by the person who designed them and who could explain the tradeoffs that were made and why. The lecture on the Hubble Repair mission was done by the astronaut that did the space walk to perform it. Truly stellar content.

And because I'm a glutton for punishment, I signed up for my next course. It is the intro class to an aeronautical engineering sequence from the University of Delft. (Fortunately in English.) This course looks pretty softball, but the later courses look more in depth.