Free Online Training Material
Hint: Some OpenCourseWare sites contain a combination of free and fee-based courses. A good practice is to search a specific site for "free" or "open" courses.
Note: Consider creating an "employee development plan" (in coordination with your manager) and furthering your professional skills using the following online resources. Employees may also utilize commonly-known learning sites that include online books, podcasts, or videos. Significant learning can be achieved by focusing on one or two topics and using various methods for "deep learning"
Note: Consider creating an "employee development plan" (in coordination with your manager) and furthering your professional skills using the following online resources. Employees may also utilize commonly-known learning sites that include online books, podcasts, or videos. Significant learning can be achieved by focusing on one or two topics and using various methods for "deep learning"
Alison | Sign up (Some courses are only a few hours of videos.) |
BYU-Idaho Open Resources (Textbook Library) | Explore the many textbook resources that BYU-Idaho has to offer. |
BYU-Idaho Training and Development | BYU-Idaho Training and Development site. Most resources are free. |
Canvas Net | Great courses. Fixed class schedule. |
Coursera | Choose self-paced courses or courses up to 10 weeks. |
FranklinCovey—On Leadership | Weekly interviews, tools, articles, and podcasts to help you become a better leader. |
Master Class | Instructional readings. Topic: Leadership Development. |
Mind Tools | Instructional readings and some videos. No sign up required. |
TED Ed | From the creators of TED Talks. |
Udemy | Sign up (Get access to several free courses.) |
Academic Earth | Offers free online video courses and academic lectures from the world's top universities. |
Carnegie Mellon University | Open Learning Initiative from Carnegie Mellon University. |
Class Central | #1 search engine for free online university courses and MOOC's. |
Duke Online | OpenCourseWare from Duke University. |
EdX | Choose courses from various universities (e.g., Harvard, Stanford, etc.) |
MIT OpenCourseWare | Free courses from MIT. |
The Open University | Sign in and go at your own pace. |
Open Yale University | Search by courses. Contains videos. |
Stanford Online | A few self-paced courses, but most are 1 week long or more. |
BluePoint Leadership | Leadership development training videos. |
Harvard | Contains a variety of lectures and videos from classes. |
Knowledge at Wharton | University of Pennsylvania — Wharton School of Business. |
Microsoft Office 365 | MS Office training videos. |
Stanford Graduate School of Business | Business videos. |
TedTalks | 15-20 minute informational videos. |
YouTube Learning | Home page for YouTube Learning. |
Google Books | Search the world's most comprehensive index of full-text books. |
Project Gutenberg | A library of over 60,000 free eBooks. |
SparkNotes | More than 500 study guides. |
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