Take advantage of resources that are just one click away!
-GENERAL LEARNING-
LinkedIn Learning
As a Berkeley student, you have access to LinkedIn Learning--a platform with a plethora of videos to help advance your current skills or help you learn new ones.
Sneak peek at some courses offered:
Tableau Essential Training
SQL for Exploratory Data Analysis Essential Training
Graphic Design Foundations: Ideas, Concepts, and Form
Women Helping Women Succeed in the Workplace
Time Management: Working from Home
Khan Academy
Perhaps this is a throwback to your high school days of cramming for those AP tests, but Khan Academy can be used beyond high school!
Sneak peek at some courses offered:
Personal Finance
Finance and Capital Markets
Entrepreneurship
Growth Mindset
General Assembly - San Francisco
If you have the financial means and are around SF, this great resource offers different workshop courses both online and in-person. Subscribe to their emails to be updated with sales and discounts on upcoming workshops. Update: because of COVID-19, courses are all currently remote!
Some FREE courses offered:
Intro to Data Analytics Livestream | 5/6
Finance Your Future with the See Her Excel Scholarship | 5/6
Intro to Product Management Livestream | 5/19
Women and the Language of Leadership: Communicate Like Your Career Depends On It | 5/21
10 Tips to Reduce Debt | 5/21
Sneak peek at other courses offered:
Adobe Illustrator One Day Bootcamp | 5/9
SQL Bootcamp | 5/16
Speak Up: Using Improvisation to Succeed in Business | 5/19
Intro to UX Design Livestream | 5/20
Digital Marketing Bootcamp | 5/23
edX
If you’ve taken CS61A recently, edX is likely your friend for DeNero’s lectures. There are other self-paced courses from Berkeley and other universities that you can enroll in for free. Note that some of the enrollment dates may have passed.
Sneak peek at some courses offered:
Free Cash Flow Analysis - Columbia University
Storytelling in the Workplace - Rochester Institute of Technology
Market Segmentation Analysis - University of Queensland Australia
The Science of Happiness - UC Berkeley
Coursera
Used by many other universities, these courses are a lot longer and do be aware that some of these courses are NOT free.
Sneak peek at some courses offered:
An Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python
Presentation Skills: Designing Presentation Slides
Preparing to Manage Human Resources
Marketing in a Digital World
(Credit: https://www.classcentral.com/collection/top-free-online-courses)
HubSpot Academy
This was recommended by the UC Berkeley Career Center’s L&S newsletter! These seem to be more general full-length courses that you can earn LinkedIn-recognized certifications for.
Sneak peek at some courses offered:
Growth-Driven Design
Social Media
Building Your First Web App
Fundamentals of Contextual Marketing
Alison.com
This was recommended by the UC Berkeley Career Center’s L&S newsletter! These seem to be more department-specific full-length courses that you can earn certifications for.
Sneak peek at some courses offered:
Marketing Management
Technical Writing Essentials
Human Resources
Operations Management
-COVID-19 LIMITED ACCESS-
Software to display your portfolio on a shining website. Available for free until May 31.
A design conference hosted by Adobe now broadcasted for free. Begins March 31!
OpenStax - Rice University
An open source library of some textbooks for intro college classes. Always free, but according to their blog, their partners are offering free access to online homework and course content.
Published Journal Resources
There are so many publishers like JSTOR and the MIT Press that have opened up access to some of the top journal publications. Because there are so many, I have linked this wonderful compilation from Project Muse.
Resources Credit: https://thejournal.com/Articles/2020/03/13/Free-Resources-Ed-Tech-Companies-Step-Up-During-Coronavirus-Outbreak.aspx?Page=12