Many of you have shared on Connect that you’re using this time to enhance your professional skills via online classes. For those interested in doing the same, we’re featuring some of the places you can find free learning opportunities online. Read on to find the best platform for you.
Google Digital Garage
Want to learn digital with Google? Visit the Google Digital Garage. Here, you can discover a range of free educational content designed to help you in your business or career. You can learn by selecting individual modules, or dive in and take a full course.
Google Skillshop
Master the Google tools you use at work with free online training. With Google Skillshop, you will develop skills you can apply right away. These e-learning courses are designed by Google product experts. They’ll allow you to learn at your own pace and get Google product-certified in areas like Google Analytics and Google Ads.
Google Primer
Google Primer, an app available on both Android and iOS, allows you to learn marketing quickly in short bursts. The app offers five-minute lessons on business, marketing, and other categories to enhance your professional development.
Coursera
Coursera features a multitude of free classes from various organizations, including Google. Any Harry Potter fans who happen to also be IT professionals? You can even learn defense against the dark (digital) arts on Coursera.
Have you tried any of these free classes? Are there other free learning opportunities you’d like to share with your fellow Local Guides? Let us know in the comments below.
@KatieMcBroom Thanks for sharing, I have completed so many already and have a certificate on fundamental digital marketing. Can’t wait to learn more during this summer.
Hello @KatieMcBroom yes there are lots of free online classes I’ve attended during look down ( Quarantined time ) . Google Arabia sharing a live lessons via YouTube everyday. They broadcasting from Abu Dhabi. So far I got two certificates, one ( digital Marketing ) and the other one ( artificial intelligence and Machine Learning ) .
Studying through online learning platforms is an amazing way to learn certain set of skills. It’s wonderful that Google is also providing some interesting courses through the virtual platform @KatieMcBroom
Excellent overview @KatieMcBroom ! With so much content available online now free of charge, and a world where acquired skills are getting more important than actual degrees to seize the opportunities a digital economy now offers, it is crucial to spread this kind of information as widely as we can.
@KatieMcBroom .good work. This is the time to study more digtal work in class .to expand our view put everything about online study in our mind.is a good ideas .is acvitity of local guides.let read more online study.learning more bring more activity online study .which is make it .easy.bring more activity.like activity of virtual meetup which will do online.is good to contribute for all local guides.
@KatieMcBroom I’ve done Digital Garage with certification as well as some Primer courses. It has greatly expanded my horizon and benefited my career . And I now have a more holistic understanding the Google products from digital marketing perspective. This is crucial for LG to know as I stated in my LG live 2020 application. Google Maps/GMB is a big chunk of SEO puzzle. If we have a good understanding of this, we can help SME better.
I guess I’m still trying to grasp everything since I have had my computer and my life flipped and torn apart so this is a sort of re-birthing for me I get the need to stay sharp because too much time on my hands is bad business. I am my own worst frenemy and it sucks, But it is part of life and I’ll grow from it eventually right now I can do something positive. I just don’t ever think I will be okay enough to get over her and the life we had.
Thanks @KatieMcBroom for providing with us different applications for online classes, these would definitely help young generation to explore and expand their mind while learning e- classes. This is the need of hour to go through these digital applications to make oneself versed with modern technology in e-learning at comfort level.
@KatieMcBroom Thanks for bringing up this subject. I am a big advocate on all the free online training courses Google has to offer and online learning in general.
I have been a huge fan of Google Digital Garage for years. There are now 125 online courses. Most are free to take and help brush up your skills sets or look for new career opportunities.
It takes 40 hours to get this The Fundamentals of Digital Marketing certificate. You also can prep for free to to take the G Suite Certificate.
In the past, I also studied and passed all 6 Google Ads exams to get certified using the old Google Academy for Ads site (now called Skillshop). I also studied for the Google Analytics exam too.
I have the Google Primer app on my phone. I also have taken a couple courses from Coursera.
I see Google My Business has a course on Skillshop with my name on it!
Thanks
