Seven platforms with the best online courses to continue training

That training is a key aspect to continue growing both in the professional and personal field is an undeniable reality.A learning that Internet popularization and technological advances have made available to anyone and that , with the increase in demand, has led to the development of specific tools, as well as the appearance of online video classes and campuses.

Some resources that the different universities have taken advantage of and a scope in which other agents have also participated.We are referring to the specific pages and platforms of courses.But, which are the most recommended? What do they do exactly? Today we collect some of the best .

Miriada X

To begin with, we stay with Miriada X, a website that offers totally free courses of various themes and is dedicated to collecting those that take place in different institutions and universities from all over the world, however, it focuses especially on those that take place in our country and in Portugal , the second language in which it is available.

It also compiles diverse conferences and events , which it presents promptly and prominently on the home page of the site.Another of its great virtues is embodied by its integrated search engine , which allows filtering by name, category and university, something very useful if you are trying to find a very specific one.Your blog, with interviews, suggestions and recommendations, is another interesting section.

Among its teaching offer, it has a special popularity its Leadership course for your management, Universitas Telefonica, open enrollment and for which we do not need to pay any amount.Semantic Web and Linked Data is another one that has more followers.

Coursera

In Coursera, for its part, the proposal is more disaggregated; that is, the courses you select are taught by a wide range of educational centers, from technical institutes, to research centers of the size of MIT and other prestigious institutions such as the University of Oxford.tremendously heterogeneous that organizes teaching and teaching categories.There are both free and paid, although it highlights the amount of these first.

Particularly noteworthy are the courses on computer science , where the offer is bulky.Here there is room, for example, for the Development of Applications in iOS, a specialized program of five courses of the Technological Institute from Monterrey, which can be tested free of charge for seven days.Later the platform will ask us 36 euros per month .

The amount varies according to the course or modality.For example, this Web Application Development allows us to "attend" for free, and even lets us access all the material.Now, if we decide to do it this way , will not be accompanied by the corresponding title.

However, and beyond informatics , they cover many other disciplines such as business, arts and humanities, mathematics and logic, biological sciences, social sciences, and even others such as language learning, usually less frequent in this type of websites.

Tutellus

Tutellus is a collaborative learning platform that has numerous courses in Spanish; a page where we can not only acquire new knowledge, but also share them with other users and even become teachers.Specifically, we find more than 60,000 video courses of different subjects and levels .

Among the different areas of specialization we highlight those of technology, business, productivity, languages, university courses, cooking, culture, natural sciences, applied sciences, culture and sciences social.Also includes a specific section of careers , designed for those who want to take an online course and do not know how to find the best option.

Udemy

The offer of Udemy is not so wide.However, it stays in more than 45,000 courses and includes some at very low prices.In fact, usually has promotions on the occasion, for example, of black friday, Valentines and similar dates.It also has a very useful integrated search and is available, in addition to our language, in another five more.

Regarding the content, we find courses on programming , tutorials, photography courses, but also others on marketing, office productivity, business music, design and personal development.The different areas are located in the top of the page in different tabs, so it is very easy to find what we are looking for.

It is also easy to distinguish whether it is a free or paid one , as this information appears in the lower left of each one of them.Besides, this has nothing to do with the duration or Quality, because we find courses such as web programming from scratch, learn HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript of up to seven hours that cost absolutely nothing.

EdX

EdX is another online course platform (MOOC) founded by Harvard University and the same MIT.However, and beyond these entities, it includes free courses of educational centers distributed throughout and width of the entire planet.A website that is available in English and in which the contents are organized by very specific categories.

In addition to this training, he teaches three different own study programs .These are micromasters, professional certificates and others called xseries , each of which has a complexity and different duration-and that are already paid-.The web also offers us the opportunity to enjoy the different contents depending on their availability, date...

Among its current offer, it is worth mentioning its verified courses in English, Grammar and Style, the Introduction to Informatics-a general overview of the most common programming languages such as C, Python SQL and more-and the Analysis and visualization of data with Excel.Now, to acquire the title , we will need to pay between 30 and 90 euros .

Coursmos

For its part, Coursmos is specialized in micro courses, that is, in short-term courses in eleven different languages, including Spanish.For example, we can opt for free between half an hour and 90 minutes , among others.Its interface is very easy to use, since, in addition to having a search engine, the lessons are structured by learning areas.

In addition, each course is presented as a block, in the form of a square and reflects information on who imparts it, the percentage of satisfaction of those who have done it, the duration, the visualizations and also the cost or absence of it. Among his free courses , the one of Tips for a perfect interview, in charge of the reporter and winner of an Emmy Kym McNicholas.

These appear on the left side, where, beyond the aforementioned themes (technology, languages, travel, design, hobbies and crafts, personal development, sports, business, cooking, music, health and beauty), offers other sections of interest, such as events and webinars.In any case, the variety of disciplines it covers, from university to others that lack a specific degree, is striking.Highbrow is similar.

Class Central

Seven platforms with the best online courses to continue training

The content of Class Central, to finish, is grouped by subjects and titles , so that you can easily find those whose realization implies a certificate.It is, for the most part, of courses taught by universities of recognized prestige and available in English.

At the top of the web it is possible to know which have been recently published, those that are in full development, those that will be taught in the future, those that have just started or are about to do so, etc.of its virtues are that to use it it is not necessary to register and that the free selection is very wide (most of the classes are).

Among these types of courses, Marketing in the digital world of the University of Illinois, Deep Learning for autonomous cars of the MIT and Finance for all of the University of Michigan are especially valued.>

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