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In these times of accessibility and constant changes, the education sector is one of the areas that keeps growing constantly.
On the one hand, we have the power to learn about any subject that we want and on the other hand, the need to continue acquiring new knowledge to be prepared for the demands of the labor market that in the field of marketing and design, are in constant development and also bring constant innovations that we need to know.
What are the advantages of online courses.
Thanks to technology, which has allowed us to create new tools to stay connected and interact in the present time, a lot of learning platforms have emerged. According to Technavio, a market research company, the forecast for 2023 in the global e-learning industry will exceed $240 billion, with a projected growth of 7% per year.
At first, studying online can be complicated, as it is an new system for some people and it highly depends a lot on your commitment to a study routine. However, I want to show you a few advantages so you don't get discouraged:
- It doesn’t require travel, so you save time and money.
- It's perfect if you have to combine it with work or any other activity: you are the one who controls your schedule and you have more flexibility to finish your assignments.
- The variety of courses you will find is practically infinite. You can specialize in almost any subject.
- They allow you to continue training with the most up-to-date content.
- Many of the courses are offered by great institutions or the best universities, so you can be sure that the teachers are the best in any field.
- They offer a degree or a certificate that endorses your knowledge, which is perfect for expanding your curriculum.
- The training can be as individualized as you want. Most courses, in addition to private lessons, put you in direct contact with your teachers and tutors.
- Most courses generate a community on forums and social networks. This will allow you to keep in touch, network, have a place to lean on your professional colleagues and why not, continue to grow as a family.
Differences between MOOC and online courses.
Before helping you find your next course, I'd like to tell you that among all the study platforms you'll find, there are two options: the regular online courses or MOOCs. What are their differences?
- MOOCs: Massive Open Online Courses are online courses with massive participation, without a maximum number of participants. You sign up and follow a specific course at your own pace. There are control sessions, free online sessions, tutorials for your questions and communication is encouraged between participants in SM or discussion forums to improve the study experience.
- Online courses: These are study options with a limited number of places. As with the face-to-face courses, you must sign up before places are filled and the courses are held with specific start and end dates. Communication and interaction is generally only done within the platform. They can be of any type: seminars, workshops or longer courses, which differ by their duration, program and area.
To help you find the best options for online study, here is a list of the best learning platforms.
List of the best websites for online courses.
This website is one of the most popular ones. It was developed by academics from Stanford University in 2011 and teaches you through entertaining videos, interactive quizzes and exercises on the platform itself. Some of the most important American universities collaborate in the selection of the contents.
The topics are very varied, but they are specialized in programming, business, marketing and human resources.
Miríada X
It is a Spanish platform that promotes knowledge in Higher Education in Latin American countries.
It collaborates with the Universia portal and with Telefónica Learning Services, which develops learning processes in people and companies.
You can search by educational center or by subject and they are specialized in health and welfare (psychology, medicine, education), business, marketing and politics.
It has one of the most intuitive and easy to use interfaces. Udemy provides tools so that the users themselves are the ones who create a course.
All courses are taught by great professionals, mostly from the technology, business and personal development fields. You will also find many courses on photography, programming, design, etc.
It is an open source software based platform. It offers courses, MOOC and Micro-masters in English. Founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2012, it was intended to be a place for the exchange of knowledge and research of this university, but it opened as a non-profit teaching platform and today it collaborates with more than 130 institutions worldwide.
The design of the website was very well crafted to allow the user to enjoy the best educational experience. The topics of the courses are infinite.
It was the mother platform of EdX. Its founder is Salman Khan, a graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, who in 2006 challenged himself to "provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.
His courses are translated into many languages. They are aimed at adults, but also at primary and secondary schoolchildren and cover four areas: mathematics, economics and finance, science, computers and the arts and humanities.
This platform indicates the progress of each one of its users.
It's the biggest online community for creatives. It works as a social network where designers, illustrators or videographers show their portfolios, look for work and offer training based on their own experience. You will find above all courses in Illustration, photography and video, design, 3D Animation, craft... You can literally learn to do what you want as anyone within the community because they are courses created by the artists themselves.
Like Domestika, it is an online learning community. It is American and teaching is also done through educational videos. The disciplines it handles best are illustration, photography and design, but the variety is very wide.
It is an app and at the same time a Spanish-speaking community where users are both teachers and students. The app boasts of being the largest low-cost online training platform on the market and offers practical and simple courses and MOOCs.
Its main areas are technology, business, productivity, culture, cuisine or languages, with specialties for each of these groups.
It's a very interesting initiative by the technology giant. It offers free, continuous training to people who need to enter the world of work or update their skills. With its training programmes and free Google courses, you can learn digital techniques and resources in three main areas: Professional Development, Digital Marketing and Data & Technology. You will find courses on productivity, commercial communication, e-commerce, Google Ads, internet behaviour, app development...
It is an educational organization founded by Sebastian Thrun, David Stavens and Mike Sokolsky that started in 2012 with a course on search engine construction and another on robotic car programming. Since then its educational offer has not stopped growing, specializing and diversifying. It offers MOOCs focused on the field of new technologies.
It’s the first open platform of British MOOCs. It was created in 2012 by the British Council together with some of the best European universities. During its history, it has joined forces with other institutions such as the British Museum, British Council, British Library, ESA, BMJ and the National Film and Television School to offer courses of all kinds: technology, history, politics, health, psychology... Although the training is free, you can get certificates that validate your performance in almost all courses by paying for the degree.
It is a mobile, very usable and versatile platform that offers most of its courses in Spanish. It was created so that teachers could teach 'everything that is not in the books' and it is designed for three user profiles: teachers who upload courses on specific subjects, owners of premises that offer teaching spaces and students. With Flooq you can select your interests, your preferred channels, design your own itineraries and later accredit and certify your knowledge. You will find contents for children, for entrepreneurs, or to broaden your knowledge in all kinds of subjects.
It offers short courses and seminars in collaboration with leading art institutions around the world: Princeton University, Stanford University, institutions such as the California Institute of the Arts, UCLA, Otis College of Art and Design, California College of the Arts, and many colleges and industry partners.
Although their forte is the arts, you can also find online courses in Science, Technology, Engineering, Design, Music and Mathematics. The technology platform allows you to analyze and measure student performance and progress as you complete your courses.
It's time to take advantage of technology and invest your time in training;
If it's at your pace, it’ll sure to taste a lot better.
Just remember this: you must be constant and responsible. Do not to leave everything to the last moment and above all not to abandon it halfway through. Keep growing. Enrich your knowledge.
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