Free online courses for everyone!

Another really great one is Coursera. They have many courses that you can either complete for free, or audit for free. You can get a completion certificate if you are willing to pay.

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Yes, I second all these comments as I have done several of these courses and they have all been of a very high standard.
I believe in keeping my brain active for as long as I can, as I have several members of my family who have suffered from dementia and it is my greatest fear.
I also do crosswords, code words, scrabble, online puzzles etc. hope it works! Now then, what did I come upstairs for??

I did a few in the Autumn and after Christmas and signed up to about 4! Then we got muddled with health issues, alls well now but I haven't yet got back into the swing. I do enjoy them. The good thing is that once you sign up the course seems to be available for some time, not sure how long and shall be tutty if I miss some.

Lucky I've just started a course on dementia, which I am sure will be a great help for my visits to care homes.

I do think we are very fortunate to have such a range of courses that are free, accessible and of such a high standard.

Thanks for that Luckygirl my essay and dissertation days are long gone.

No essays on the course I have been doing - but lots of online conversations with others - some very learned. You can join in these or not as you choose. Some excellent video interviews with experts and lots of links to various material. I have found it very interesting. I am so glad that others have picked up on this and will be staving off the grey cell degeneration along with me!

A superb selection of courses. Does one have to produce essays?

Oh wow this is fantastic. I've just signed up for the Journalism and Italian course. Can't believe my luck!

PS. It's wholly funded by the Open University.

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I guess the idea is to try and get people to follow up by signing up for full OU courses.

Alima, I've just started the Agincourt course. I've also been learning Dutch for a week and have spent the last couple of hours doing Cultural Studies and Modern Languages. The last one isn't what I was expecting, but it's quite interesting. A lot of people on the Agincourt course seem to know quite a bit about the period and I'm finding their comments very enlightening.

I don't think I'll be paying for the certificates, because I'm just doing them to stop my grey cells from atrophy.

Thank you. I enrolled on forensic psychology and "What is the Mind?" courses. That should keep me out of trouble for a week or two.

I also have registered for the Literature and Mental Health course which starts on 1st Feb.

I'm really looking forward to it and have just tried a taster which was great.

I do find poetry, both writing and reading, very helpful when going through difficult times.

I have done free Corsera courses.

Thanks for that Lindylou - I have flagged up that course with the teachers in school where I am governor.

I have also just noticed that there is a course for carers of people with dementia to help them understand and deal with challenging behaviour.

I totally endorse this post. I completed a couple of courses on Futurelearn last year and really enjoyed them. One of them was really aimed at teachers who will be teaching computing coding under the new curriculum, but was open to all. As my grandson's school seem to be ignoring coding and hoping it will go away, the course gave me loads of ideas for doing things with him online to give him a head start. Looking forward to doing more courses this year.

Thanks for the information. These sound very interesting and I'm going to have a look.

Luckygirl and bags - some of the coursera courses are free and otherwise there is financial help available if you fill out an online form and qualify.

The two sites that I've done courses on and that I know are free are Futurelearn and EdX. I must say of the two I prefer Futurelearn. The courses seem to be produced much more professionally, but that maybe just the courses I've done.

Oh, sorry! I thought it was. Scrub that then.

Coursera is apparently not free from what I can see - is this right bags?

There is also this site for free online courses: www.coursera.org