Topic: self help (mixing financial & spiritual success)
Format: 26 minute MP3 download & 6-page PDF file
Reviewer/email: Mike G - greers_pm@yahoo.com
What happens when Brent Kessel, “one of the top 250 financial advisors in the U.S.,” meets with the Dalai Lama, Rabbi Harold Kushner, Nobel Prize winner Dr. Harry Markowitz, Vanguard Funds founder John Bogle, Ram Dass, and and other great thinkers? You get a book full of challenging ideas and tools called, It’s Not About the Money: Unlock Your Money Type to Achieve Spiritual and Financial Abundance. And what happens when Brian Johnson experiences this book and distills it for you? You get these two great freebies. (Continued in Comment.)
Complete this sentence:
“I wish I could find some great free training about ________________ [insert desired topic or skill here].”
Every week I follow my own curiosity and sort through all sorts of training freebies to find a few items that are good enough to be listed here as some of The Best Free Training. But I often wonder what topics or skills you, the readers, are interested in learning about. So tell me: What is on your free training wish list? Simply post a comment below, then I’ll see what I can find. And I invite other readers to help in the search. Let’s see what we can discover together!
Topic: Health care & medicine (diseases & conditions; tests; diagnostic, surgical, & treatment procedures; prevention & wellness)
Format: Narrated slide presentations, supported by illustrated print explanations
Reviewer/email: Mike G - greers_pm@yahoo.co
With these great free tutorials, you can take charge of your health care by learning about your particular medical condition and treatment alternatives. Betty yet, you can become a more informed consumer of medical services. The authoritative tutorials each begin with the basics and then, in plain language, make complicated medical conditions, tests, and treatments clear and understandable so you can make good decisions about your health care. (Continued in Comment.)
Topic: Wide variety of educational topics from kindergarten through adult
Format: Quizzes, games, puzzles
Reviewer/email: Mike G - greers_pm@yahoo.com
Kids (and a lot of us adults!) have short attention spans. And kids love challenging themselves with games, puzzles, and quizzes. This unique website doesn’t provide training presentations or educational explanations. But it does provide a boatload of interesting and engaging games, puzzles, and quizzes that allow both kids and adults to test their skills and knowledge of all sorts of topics. (Continued in Comment.)
Topic: Environmental science, ecology, biodiversity, climate, pollution
Format: videos, texts, graphics, animations, & interactive labs
Reviewer/email: Mike G - greers_pm@yahoo.com
The Habitable Planet: A Systems Approach to Environmental Science is quite an achievement. Integrating the work of 40 scientists, it is a visually appealing and well-designed set of multi-media experiences that clarifies the complex systems making up the Earth’s environment. If you are confused by the arguments of politicians, environmentalists, and industry spokespersons over global warming and the future of the planet, use these materials to develop a solid scientific framework to evaluate their arguments. (Continued in Comment.)
As regular readers of this blog know, I am a big fan of LearnOutLoud.com. They introduced me to the wonderful world of audio learning as a way to use my brain while exercising, standing in line at the post office, or sitting in traffic. To date, I’ve published reviews of the following LearnOutLoud items:
[Note: The links below go to my reviews; Each review links to a LearnOutLoud item.]
So here’s the news: LearnOutLoud has just published a list of it’s Top Fifty Free Resources. If you’d like to explore these, go to the URL below:
http://www.learnoutloud.com/content/blog/archives/2008/04/top_50_free_res.html
CAVEAT: I have not listened to all the items on this list. Some of them are technically not training, but information. And some will likely fall into the category of “high density audios” which you might want to use repeatedly. (For tips on using high density audios, see to my article About High Density Audios.)
Topic: How to use online resources to research companies
Format: Printed tutorial with with interactive links to many online business info resources
Reviewer/email: Mike G - greers_pm@yahoo.com
This free tutorial provides an introduction to search strategies for locating in-depth information about businesses using online resources. Incredibly comprehensive, it also briefly introduces, then links to, an amazing number of powerful online resources. (Continued in Comment.)
Topic: Basic computer & internet skills
Format: Narrated slides with animations, interactive practice, assignments, links, and quizzes [free registration required]
Reviewer/email: Mike G - greers_pm@yahoo.com
So you think you know all about the internet? Then challenge yourself by taking the quizzes in this great free course… then go back and work through the lessons you need! Or, if you’re new to the internet, get a comprehensive and easy-to-understand introduction to all the ways you can put the ‘net to work for you! (Continued in Comment.)
Topic: Biology (cellular biology, molecular biology, biochemistry, and genetics)
Format: text explanations, videos, graphics, animations, interactive exercises, quizzes
Reviewer/email: Mike G - greers_pm@yahoo.com
This college-level introductory course focuses “… on topics at the forefront of experimentation in the fields of cellular biology, molecular biology, biochemistry, and genetics.” It is designed “… to provide the background students need for advanced biology classes… and it explains many of the concepts and techniques currently discussed in the popular press…” Basic biochemistry, cell biology, and molecular and cellular function are discussed in detail. (Continued in Comment.)
Topic: self help (how to achieve success)
Format: 23 minute MP3 download & 6-page PDF file
Reviewer/email: Mike G - greers_pm@yahoo.com
According to Wikipedia, Stephen Covey’s The Seven Habits of Highly Successful People “…has sold over 15 million copies in 38 languages since first publication, which was marked by the release of a 15th anniversary edition in 2004.” If you’ve never studied this great classic or if you simply want a quick refresher, Brian Johnson’s PhilosphersNotes provides a great distillation of the “big ideas” in MP3 form and a supporting PDF file. (Continued in Comment.)
