Alternative Education
Transitional Job Training & College Credit
1. GoodWill Services provides online training at GCFLearnFree.org. It includes basic literacy skills, as well as Microsoft Office Suite training. You can earn Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for class completion and receive feedback from an online instructor. If you don't need CEUs, you can simply conduct some self-study. Both the CEU online classes and self-study options are free! Click the image below to visit their site.
2. Did you know that you can earn college credit for your knowledge? Perhaps you speak a second language or received on the job training in business administration. For a nominal fee, you could take the College Level Examination Placement (CLEP) test in your area of expertise to earn college credit and save time. Here's what they say:
"The 33 CLEP exams are administered at college test centers and on military bases. Students must register directly with test centers to take the exams... Although CLEP is sponsored by the College Board, only colleges may grant credit toward a degree. Colleges' CLEP policies differ; some colleges accept credit for only two or three of the exams while others accept credit for all of them. A college often grants the same amount of credit to students earning satisfactory scores on the CLEP examination as it grants to students successfully completing that course. Find out which colleges grant credit for CLEP exams." http://professionals.collegeboard.com/testing/clep/register
3.Online Education Database Library: http://oedb.org/library/features/236-open-courseware-collections.
This library links to open courseware, broadcast learning, educational video, archives, lecture webcasts and podcasts from a range of colleges, and scholarly journals.
4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) offers 1,800 free lecture notes, exams, and videos in a variety of subjects, along with supplemental resources on their OpenCourseWare: http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
5. The University of California-Berkeley, presents free podcasts and webcasts of its current and archived courses: http://webcast.berkeley.edu/.
6. Open Learning Initiative: http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/forstudents/freecoursesCarnegie Mellon University provides free online courses and course material in modern biology, French, economics, chemistry, and other subjects.
7. The Annenberg Foundation's Web site for teacher professional development offers streaming video and course materials in a variety of subjects. Learner.org: http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm8. Hippocampus was created by the Monterey Institute of Technology and Education and contains multimedia lessons and course materials: http://www.hippocampus.org/.
9. Alison provides free online education for learners world-wide. If you're an instructor, you can publish your course curriculum. It offers training certifications, too. The only downside is that after you load each page of content, you will see an advertisement. For a small, annual fee, you can learn without the ads. http://alison.com/.
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