Here are some interesting eLearning platforms with free online learning courses you can do from anywhere in the world. These free courses can help you up your skills and potentially earn more, or better serve your local and regional community. Some of them are from the World Bank, the IMF, and the United Nations. Online courses can require a certain level of discipline to complete.
You’re not in a traditional classroom with people face-to-face to encourage you along. This means that without the right drive and focus you may not stay up to date with your learning modules to complete the course. Many of these platforms do offer certificates of completion, so you will have evidence to show your learnings to current or prospect employers, clients, NGOs, and other organisations of interest.
World Bank Online Learning Campus
The Open Learning Campus platform of the World Bank Group is centred on how better learning, attained via increased cooperation and innovative technologies like the OLC, results in more efficient development on a global level.
It is an open, participatory, and connected learning environment inspired by the success and legitimacy of tried-and-true methods for online learning. It makes use of the WBG’s and its partners’ extensive expertise and transforms it into useful learning for efficient development.
IMF Online Learning
https://www.imf.org/en/Capacity-Development/online-learning
The IMF Online Learning Program seeks to improve government agencies’ technical know-how and competence so they can create and put into practise strong financial and economic policies that promote prosperity and stability.
Our online training programme makes IMF knowledge on important macroeconomic and financial topics available whenever, wherever, and at zero cost to everyone.
ILO Courses
This is the International Labour Organization’s training division and s ince 1964, the International Training Centre has been a leader in education and training. It is committed to creating decent work whilst examining the possibilities for the future of work. Inclusion, impact, and innovation are the three main components of their training programmes.
Some of their free online learning courses are available in multiple languages, namely, English, Spanish, French, Arabic, Portuguese, and Bengali. Check out their free online courses now.
UNICEF Free Courses
This is the Global learning hub for UNICEF. It’s called Agora, and it is a free online learning platform that provides partners, donors, and supports of UNICEF with specialised learning opportunities. The platform enables you to choose from a vast array of learning opportunities. Title, keyword, provider, competency, topic, and format are all search options available when looking for courses to pursue on the platform.
The majority of activities monitor your progress toward completion and/or offer evaluations that you can take to earn digital badges and/or certificates of completion that you can then use to enhance your career.
UNESCO Open Learning
https://openlearning.unesco.org/
The objective of the UNESCO Open Learning platform is to offer e-learning capabilities for the development and distribution of online courses on subjects that are in keeping with UNESCO’s mandate under the Natural and Human Sciences, Communication and Information, Education, and Culture Sectors. You can find free online courses on subject areas like water resources management, Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), remote sensing, climate change adaptation, information and communications technologies
UN Economic Commission, Africa
https://elearningidep.uneca.org/
The thematics areas of learning focus for this online learning platform include Planning For Development, Macroeconomic Development, Social Development, Natural Resources Management, and Courses In Education.
FAO eLearning Academy
With the overall objective of strengthening the capacity of member countries to realise the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the FAO elearning Academy offers opportunities to learn and multilingual elearning courses for professionals working in food and nutrition security, social and economic development, and sustainable management of natural resources.
Thematic areas of learning focus on this platform include, sustainable development goal indicators, fisheries and aquaculture, agricultural risk management and resilience, food and nutrition security, and health, sustainable food systems, livestock, animal health and production, gender and social protection, soils and water management, food losses and waste, forests and landscape restoration, climate change and environment, plant health, pre-breeding and crop improvement, carbon footprint and greenhouse gas emissions, responsible governance of tenure, food safety, farmer field schools, communication and capacity development, child labour and youth employment, monitoring and evaluation, responsible investments, trade and markets, decent rural employment, rural poverty reduction, migration, integrated food security phase classification, mechanisation, and responsible investment in agriculture. Check out their free online learning courses to see which could help you earn more and better serve your local community.
IOM e-Campus
The organisation for external audience created the IOM E-Campus as a free online learning environment featuring migration-related courses and resources.
Various experts in fields that intersect with migration have created these E-Campus courses to help anyone interested in learning more about this topic ares. Currently, courses are available in Spanish, English, French, Italian, and Arabic. Each course takes around 3 hours to complete, and IOM provides a certificate of completion at the end.
ITU Academy
The primary online entry point for ITU’s initiatives related to capacity building is the ITU Academy. In the area of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and digital development, it unifies under one roof a wide range of learning opportunities and knowledge sources.
There is a wide range of online, in-person, and mixed courses available in the ITU Academy catalogue. Browse the course catalogue or use their advanced search to find specific courses you want to pursue. There are also introductory, intermediate, and advanced course options for you to choose.
SDGAcademyX
https://www.edx.org/school/sdgacademyx
The SDG Academy develops courses that address the central issues confronting our world today. Issues such as how do people, communities, businesses and governments coexist? And, how do we cooperate and collaborate to save the one planet we have. In essence, it curates graduate-level courses on sustainable development, from human rights and climate change, to sustainable cities.
You may communicate with, discuss, and learn from both our international faculty of sustainable development professionals and your fellow students throughout their fully interactive courses.
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