Learn My Way is a website of free online courses for beginners, helping you develop digital skills to make the most of the online world.
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ECDL is the European Computer Driving Licence, recognised by employers across the globe as the benchmark in digital and IT user skills. ECDL is the world's number one IT user qualification - over 15 million programmes delivered worldwide.
- Teacher: Chris Stevens
- Description: Explore how to present yourself professionally online. Find out more about different social media platforms and how the way that you conduct yourself online can impact your professional reputation. Learn about safety and privacy and the ways that your online activity might be viewed by different audiences.
- Provider: FutureLearn
- Level: Intermediate
- Approximate study time: 4 hours in total over 2 weeks
This is a course from the National Cyber Security Centre on how to stay safe online
- Description: Boost your confidence and build the skills you need to use digital technology in the workplace. Explore jobs that need digital skills through real life case studies. Get to know what digital skills you're most likely to need in the future to stay one step ahead and develop techniques to enhance wellbeing and resilience at work.
- Provider: FutureLearn
- Level: Intermediate
- Approximate study time: 12 hours in total over 6 weeks
- Description: Learn how to market goods or services online through a series of short video tutorials and knowledge quizzes. The course covers topics like creating a website and getting it known, marketing your business locally and internationally and advertising using social media. There are modules covering how to sell online as well as how to analyse the success of your marketing plan.
- Provider: Google Digital Garage
- Level: Advanced
- Approximate study time: 40 hours
- Description: Learn how to write your own computer programs, one line of code at a time. Find out how to access open data, clean and analyse it, and produce visualisations, and how to present your analyses, privately or publicly. You'll be coding in Python, a widely used programming language across all disciplines.
- Provider: OpenLearn
- Level: Advanced
- Approximate study time: 24 hours