{"id":480,"date":"2020-04-06T16:19:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T16:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/first\/?p=480"},"modified":"2021-09-07T17:55:07","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T17:55:07","slug":"free-online-courses-certifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/loop\/2020\/04\/06\/free-online-courses-certifications\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Online Courses &amp; Certifications"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Knowledge is power! Below are some <em>free<\/em> online courses to expand your horizons from home:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li><strong>Financial Literacy.<\/strong> Money Smart is a free financial literacy education program for young adults and adults. You can register an <em>individual<\/em> account for yourself and choose a young adult or adult program. If young adults finish their course, they can continue onto the Adult Program. A certificate can be printed upon completion of each program. <a href=\"https:\/\/moneysmartcbi.fdic.gov\/\">https:\/\/moneysmartcbi.fdic.gov\/<\/a><\/li><li><strong>LinkedIn Learning.<\/strong> LinkedIn Learning has partnered with organizations to provide thousands of certifications and courses online. While not all of the courses are free, many of them are. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.odu.edu\/ts\/software-services\/linkedin-learning\">https:\/\/www.odu.edu\/ts\/software-services\/linkedin-learning<\/a><\/li><li><strong>Ivy League Courses.<\/strong> 450 free courses are being offered in the following fields: Computer Science, Data Science, Programming, Humanities, Business, Art &amp; Design, Science, Social Sciences, Health &amp; Medicine, Engineering, Mathematics, Education &amp; Teaching, and Personal Development. <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/FREECollegeCourses\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/FREECollegeCourses<\/a>&nbsp;<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knowledge is power! Below are some free online courses to expand your horizons from home:&nbsp; Financial Literacy. Money Smart is a free financial literacy education program for young adults and adults. You can register an individual account for yourself and choose a young adult or adult program. If young adults finish their course, they can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14952,"featured_media":579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[9,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/loop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/loop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/loop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/loop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14952"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/loop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/loop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":668,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/loop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions\/668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/loop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/loop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/loop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/loop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}