You will have heard many times that knowledge does not take place. Well nowadays this maxim is more valid than ever thanks to the Internet, which offers a wide range of websites to study and learn from home . The offer of online courses is very large and these platforms are a flexible and inexpensive way to train across geographical distances. Below, we show you three of the most successful current options in our country:
– Coursera : Behind the birth of this virtual education platform are prestigious American universities such as Stanford, Berkeley or Princeton. Today Coursera presents enviable figures: more than 15 million active users participate in the classes it offers. In addition, it has the collaboration of 145 educational institutions from 28 different countries and offers almost 2,000 courses .
Once registered, you will find the educational material posted and you will be able to interact with the teacher and the other students through discussion forums. The functioning of the exams can vary according to each specialty, most of them being in test format, with a deadline to carry them out. Depending on the course, once approved you will receive an official certificate .
– Ges Formación : It is a Spanish study center specialized in online and distance education . It offers courses, workshops and different training activities aimed at all those people interested in improving and developing their skills and knowledge in one of the areas in which this center offers training.
In 2015, he obtained the Cum Laude seal granted by the prestigious Emagister training portal , which is awarded based on the opinions of the students, and in it the training quality of the center is recognized, which after more than 3 years in operation has exceeded the number of 10,000 students trained . This recognition has consolidated the Granada company as one of the training centers best valued by students who choose to train through online or distance courses .
The good results of Ges Formacion has led the Granada company to triple its workforce and develop new content and courses to expand its offer, achieving more than 400 courses available in the three modalities and initiating a process of expansion to Latin America.
– UNED : The National University of Distance Education, apart from its undergraduate courses and master’s degrees, has for some time been offering what they call UNED COMA courses, which are free and open online courses in Spanish. To enter a COMA course, all you need to do is register on the website https://coma.uned.es .
Once done, log in with the username and password obtained in the registration and you can search and access the course you want. With a simple click on the button ” Enroll me in this course ” you will access all its content. The information is hung in small video “pills”, after which a small questionnaire is posed. Additionally, there may be, depending on the course, a final exam, but the important thing is to know that the courses can be started and finished when the student sees fit. COMA courses include options for official certifications .
If you have been thinking about going back to study for a long time, or if you want to complement your current studies with other knowledge, the options that we have presented to you are ideal to fulfill this objective. You know … never stop learning!
