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49 FREE Online Courses from Open Universities Australia

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49 FREE Online Courses from Open Universities Australia
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tightarse on 15/02/2014 - 13:55 open2study.com (8875 clicks)
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Open2Study is offering the following 49 courses FREE. Content by some of Australia's most respected universities like RMIT, MacQuarie, Massey, Griffith, Swinburne, Curtin, etc. All commence February 17th and end March 18th.

Agriculture And The World We live In
Astronomy: Discovering The Universe
Basic Physics
Becoming A Confident Trainer
Becoming Human: Anthropology
Big Data for Better Performance
Chemistry – Building Blocks of the World
Chinese Language and Culture
Climate Change
Concepts in Game Development
Contemporary Issues in Ocean Governance
Diagnosing the Financial Health of a Business
Early Childhood Education
Education in a Changing World
Emergency Management
Entrepreneurship and Family Business
Financial Literacy
Financial Planning
Food, Nutrition & Your Health
Foundations of Psychology
Human Resources
Indigenous Studies: Australia and New Zealand
Innovation for Powerful Outcomes
Introduction to Business in Asia
Introduction to Enterprise Architecture
Introduction to Nursing in Healthcare
Leadership: Identity, Influence and Power
Management for a Competitive Edge
Marine and Antarctic Science
Microbiology and Forensic Science
Midwifery
Mining Engineering
Mobile Robotics
Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
Online Advertising
Principles of Project Management
Sociology
Sports And Recreation Management
Strategic Management
Teaching Adult Learners
The Art Of Drawing And Painting
The Art Of Photography
The Human Body As A Machine
Understanding Human Diseases
Understanding The Origins Of Crime
User Experience For The Web
Water In A Thirsty World
World Music
Writing For The Web

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  • meroveus on 15/02/2014 - 14:05

    Not a deal.
    These courses have always been free, so this post should be in the forums.

    meroveus on 15/02/2014 - 14:05 (Collapsed - Offtopic. Show)
    • tightarse on 15/02/2014 - 15:02
      +2

      These courses have always been free

      Proof/link please? There's only 10 that were offered free previously as per this post. The other 39 are all new and start in 2 days.

      There are stacks of posts for free courses that are not in forums, and I suggest this should remain a deal like the rest of them.

        • meroveus on 15/02/2014 - 15:28
          -4

          Here's your linky. Ok?

          https://www.open2study.com/howitworks#555

          "The courses at Open2Study are free – and we mean completely free! There are no fees or admin charges, no textbooks or materials to buy and absolutely no hidden costs.

          All of our courses are available to everyone – whether you're curious about online study, looking to boost your professional skills, returning to study or just want to learn something new for fun. We want you to be able to sample a high-quality education, free of charge."

          Just reported this "deal" to a mod.

        • tightarse on 15/02/2014 - 15:29
          +4

          Just reported this "deal" to a mod.

          Meroveus, 4 lifetime posts, and now FREEBIE police, has spoken!

        • meroveus on 15/02/2014 - 15:31
          -1

          Typical of you. The only way you know of to win an argument. lol

        • tightarse on 15/02/2014 - 15:33
          +4

          I've been doing this long enough to know what a deal is. Don't hold your breath, as the mods have set precedents with freebies in the past. Now, go get a little fresh air.

        • unity1 on 15/02/2014 - 15:36

          To be fair see the comment made by the REP on 15/05/2013 https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/97329#comment-1390295

          Looks like extra courses were added throughout 2013, so many of these courses would be fairly recent and certainly not available when this was posted earlier last year https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/97329

        • tightarse on 15/02/2014 - 15:38

          many of these courses would be fairly recent and certainly not available when this was posted earlier last year

          Thanks u1. As a power user, what's your take on what should/should not be a deal (& moved to forums)?

        • unity1 on 15/02/2014 - 15:44
          +3

          This was allowed as a deal last year when ~10 courses were available. Now there are ~40 new courses which have not been posted since. If the previous deal was allowed then this one should be too.

          It's the MODs call at the end of the day.

        • tonester on 15/02/2014 - 17:11

          @tightarse

          OK, let's start by negging these:

          inappropriate use of neg - report instead :)

          @unity1

          If the previous deal was allowed then this one should be too.

          not necessarily - did anyone report that deal? i would have if i had seen it and there were no comments re it being a freebie as here

          It's the MODs call at the end of the day.

          +1

          https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/77969#comment-997405 :)

      • tonester on 15/02/2014 - 15:25
        +1

        https://www.open2study.com/howitworks#555

        The courses at Open2Study are free – and we mean completely free! There are no fees or admin charges, no textbooks or materials to buy and absolutely no hidden costs.

        unless the same courses are not free elsewhere then this belongs in the forums :)

    • shaybisc on 15/02/2014 - 15:30

      If they are always free why is there such a tight time frame?

      • tonester on 15/02/2014 - 17:19

        courses always have a fixed duration :)

        Course starts on:17/02/2014
        Course ends on:18/03/2014

      • blerk on 15/02/2014 - 19:32
        +1

        Tight, because you are only given 4 weeks of educational videos (and which you can usually watch them all in one day's sitting). Also, by having it in (often repeated) short blocks, as opposed to having a rolling enrolment process, it means that a particular group of people can go through it together which helps if there are forum questions to each other, questions to the lecturer etc. You then don't get lost in the sea of questions from the previous groups of students. It also, I would imagine, means that a lecturer is only on hand for questions at set times of the year, not a 365 day commitment.

  • eddiecox on 15/02/2014 - 14:50
    +4

    Thanks for sharing, I didn't know about this. Can you enrol on as many as you want? What is the accrediation/certificate at the end?

      • eddiecox on 15/02/2014 - 15:00

        Yeah thanks, I've kinda got an idea what it's about now! Do they enrole at different times during the year? I'd be tempted to do one, but wouldn't want to do 3 at once!

      • rawm on 15/02/2014 - 17:05

        TA, do you (or anyone else for that matter) know if the relevant uni logo is on the certificate of achievement? I understand it will have Open University all over it, but wonder if there is a small RMIT/Swinburne Uni logo also. The website doesn't make this clear…

        • tightarse on 15/02/2014 - 17:07

          No idea, sorry rawm.

        • itsMartin on 15/02/2014 - 18:36
          +2

          I did some courses late last year and assuming nothing has changed since then, there is a big Open2Study logo at the top, your name, the course you did and then the logo of the institution which presented the course at the bottom.

        • rawm on 15/02/2014 - 20:00

          Awesome, thanks! Decision made.

        • maf101 on 15/02/2014 - 21:29
          +2

          I found a couple certificates on Google. Example 1 Example 2 Example 3

  • ltwo on 15/02/2014 - 16:30
    +1

    Would these be useful on a CV? Not as the only "qualification" of course but in addition to whatever qualifications you may hold.

    • daydream on 15/02/2014 - 17:26

      Depends on the reader of your CV and how much they know "While this certificate isn't a formal qualification from your educator, you can use it to demonstrate your interest in and passion for a certain course…"

  • payton on 15/02/2014 - 18:46
    +1

    Thanks much TA, heaps on that site than I could ever keep up with, lol.

  • blerk on 15/02/2014 - 19:21
    +1

    I usually enrol in several but never do the assessments. Quite often they'll stay active in my account to watch later even after the set study period time.

    So many uni's need to take note of the really good production values used here rather than the half-baked way some of them treat online or distance ed courses. If you can't wait until the 17th, they have some of their videos on their YouTube channel (most of them are hidden ones though so it's still worth going through the enrolment procedure) - https://www.youtube.com/user/open2study/videos

  • blerk on 15/02/2014 - 19:35
    +2

    University of New England also do some free courses, which give you the option of paying to actually do the assessments if you feel like it - http://www.uneopen.com/

  • shk on 15/02/2014 - 20:12
    +1

    damn so many I'm interested in and not enough time :(
    thanks for the post though!

  • chrisys on 15/02/2014 - 20:26
    +1

    Does anyone know if they mail the Certificate to us free as well? Any hidden tricks that anyone noticed?

    • Crownanchor on 15/02/2014 - 23:09
      +2

      Certificates are emailed

      • [Deactivated] on 16/02/2014 - 08:40
        +1

        I hate that. I'd be willing to pay ~$15-$25 for a nice embossed certificate.

  • shaybisc on 15/02/2014 - 20:32

    Yeah

  • shaybisc on 15/02/2014 - 20:35
    +1

    Does anyone else find the way this site allows people to delete your posts for no reason at all slightly creepy?
    What is the rationale for this unique policy?

  • [Deactivated] on 15/02/2014 - 23:58
    +3

    Really interested in trying a course (or four) out. Thanks TA.

    oh and dw about the haters :) Without you posting this, I would never have known these things existed! Can't put a price on learning and education. Literally in this case! :P

  • grababargain on 16/02/2014 - 07:51
    +1

    More free online courses from universities in US, UK, AU and other countries.
    http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses
    http://www.openculture.com/free_certificate_courses

  • [Deactivated] on 16/02/2014 - 08:29
    -8

    Love to do the climate change course… right after I complete the ones on maintaining the habitat of fairies at the bottom of your garden, and how to build a business selling loch-ness monster steaks.

    • rawm on 16/02/2014 - 08:54
      +5

      Tony, I thought you'd be far too busy treating the Indonesian government like dirt and feeding your room full of speech writing chimpanzees to comment on OzBargain. Pardon the pun, but Welcome aboard!

      • [Deactivated] on 17/02/2014 - 08:33
        -1

        And I thought I was the only that sees a chimp when I see those ears!

  • Crownanchor on 16/02/2014 - 10:16
    +10

    Here is my list of other free online sites, its quite an old list, some of these may have changed.

    Is there any interest in a wiki for online courses, as this Open Universities has been posted in the past and there seems to be a lot of interest.

    https://www.edx.org/courses
    https://www.coursera.org/courses
    Cisco http://www.ine.com/self-paced/ccna-voice/bootcamps.htm (IEOC Forums and Cisco Learning Network)
    https://secure.cbtnuggets.com/it-training-videos/series/ctia…
    http://www.saylor.org
    https://piazza.com/
    Khan http://www.khanacademy.org/
    udacity
    mitx
    www.udemy.com
    audacity
    https://p2pu.org/en/
    http://www.codecademy.com/
    http://www.skillshare.com/
    http://www.academicearth.org/
    https://learn.open2study.com
    http://online.stanford.edu/
    http://education-portal.com/academy/course/index.html
    https://www.futurelearn.com/courses

  • gstfree on 16/02/2014 - 11:16
    +1

    Thanks for sharing.
    Enrolled financial planning.

  • chrisreid00 on 16/02/2014 - 12:51
    +2

    Thanks alot - enrolled in two courses.
    What a great post and thread of other sites to explore.

  • coolc on 16/02/2014 - 13:14

    Thank You

  • Lucky13 on 16/02/2014 - 14:41

    Thanks for posting this :)

  • ladis on 16/02/2014 - 17:48

    i found this to be an interesting post. Thank you.

  • kwaker on 16/02/2014 - 19:06
    -1

    Thanks for the post. I wouldn't mind studying some of these for my own entertainment.

  • Thaal Sinestro on 16/02/2014 - 19:13
    -8

    The title" The Human Body As A Machine" worries me. These scientist regard humans as just robots. That's why psychiatry is so evil: it assumes the human mind is only an organic machine and tries to solve everything with purely mechanical means, first psychosurgery (prefrontal lobotomies mainly), then 100 Volts of electricity across the temples, and now pschoactive drugs that make people lethargic, impotent, nauseous, diabetic, obese, compliant and will-less. Sugar pills are just as effective as SSRIs for the treatment of depression. It is human faith, belief and effort that heals the psyche, not increasing the concentration of seratonin in the synaptic cleft.

    • diddy50 on 16/02/2014 - 22:18
      -1

      I think this needs to stay inside your soul… Or with a psychologist.

    • [Deactivated] on 18/02/2014 - 23:24
      -1

      Dude. lol

      As someone who is medicated for a serious mental health disorder and is ALIVE to this day because of that medication (along with regular psychologist sessions), let me tell you that you're well off your rocker if you believe that all drugs are evil. I question the realm of Psychiatry all the time and see many many flaws in diagnosis and treatment methods, but damn, to cast a blanket statement like you've just done is absurd.

      Praying to Jesus ain't gonna fix us crazies.

    • kwaker on 20/02/2014 - 00:20

      I agree with some of your statement many treatments in the past and present are akin to barbaric torture which is actually acknowledged professionally. Psychiatry is a field full of psychopaths.

      Faith alone might work for people, each to their own. I don't believe this but I haven't experienced it so its not for me to judge. Exercise is known to help though.

      Faith and spirituality has been stated to have many benefits from people who practice it. I don't practice it so I have no knowledge to refute that.

  • J4MMI3 on 16/02/2014 - 21:40

    I participated some of their classes. Cant complain about the lecture quality. Thank you for sharing anyway!

  • Crownanchor on 16/02/2014 - 22:18
    +6

    Ive added a wiki and cleaned up the list https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/133682#comment-1843611 a little, added a few others listed in this thread.

    Wiki link: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/wiki/free_online_courses

    Thanks to blerk, romaau and grababargain for your additional links

  • Tsort on 17/02/2014 - 22:04

    Thank you for this post.

  • ThePensioner on 19/02/2014 - 16:13
    -2

    Does anyone know if you get a certificate after completing these courses?

    Please PM me if you know the answer!

  • Associatedaerondir @ open2study.com on 20/02/2014 - 12:31

    Answer is in the beginning of discussion thread ;) In two words - yes, Example

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