The Best Free Training

Looking for some great resources to help your kids succeed at school this year? Here’s a list of some of The Best Free Training reviews published in the last year that might help you find what you’re looking for. Enjoy!

Pictured above: One of many great free resources for students reviewed on this website last year. Check out the list below!

• Study PDFs & eBooks, then Highlight & Add Notes with PDF-XChange Viewer
• Khan Academy: Over 1600 Videos on Math, Science & More!
• Best of LearnOutLoud’s Free Resources
• How to Upload PDFs (eBooks) to Your iPad, Kindle, Sony Reader & NOOK
  
• LinkExtend Toolbar: Learn More While You Search & Stay Safe!
• 2010 Collection: Boredom Breakers for Kids on Summer Vacation
• click! photography changes everything
• Simple Studies Online Accounting Training
• Get Ready for Your SAT Exams (College Boards)!
• Web MD Health Video A-Z: Videos & Much More!
• From AARP: “How to Learn Just About Anything Online … For Free”
• Guide to Online Schools’ Listing of Free Online Classes
• 2009 Update: The Kid Stuff Collection
• Stocking stuffers? Why not stuff an iPod or MP3 player with free learning challenges?
• Free Kindle Software + 1000s of Free Downloads = Free Kindle Books on Your PC!
• eduFire Business Channel: Attend or Teach Free Online Business & Career Classes
• Over 6000 Free Math Worksheets!
• Study Skills Guide from Education Atlas

Below are links to Back to School Guides that I published in previous years at this time. Most of the sites reviewed are still going strong, so I hereby encourage you to revisit these posts. Happy back-to-school days!

From 2009…

• 2009 Back to School Guide: Useful Free Resources for Students

From 2008…

• Back to School Guide: Useful Free Resources for Students

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Below is a list of my 12 favorite posts from 2009. These were either 1) fun to research & write, or 2) particularly useful discoveries that I was eager to share. Some of these were both! Check them out and see what you think. I look forward to your Comments.

• Train Yourself for a Right Brain Workplace: Part 1, Background
• Train Yourself for a Right Brain Workplace: Part 2, Tools & Training
• Study Skills Guide from Education Atlas
• Microsoft’s Office Online Training
• eduFire: Absolute Freedom to Teach and Learn!
• Beginner’s Guide to Meditation: Part 1, Jon Kabat Zinn & Mindfulness
• Beginner’s Guide to Meditation: Part 2, Free Tools from Jet City Orange
• Anxiety or Rotting Fish? Retool & Give Something New to the World!
• Worth a Second Look: The Science of Happiness
• One Dozen Free Yoga Classes to Go!
• Stocking stuffers? Why not stuff an iPod or MP3 player with free learning challenges?
• The Best Free Training Named One of “100 Best Self-Education Sites for Switching Careers”

On The Best Free Training, we’ve posted lots of reviews of free training and educational resources for kids of all ages, from pre-school through college.  Here’s the 2009 update of our Kid Stuff Collection.

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Are you looking for a new job?  Is it time to start thinking about developing new skills, getting some additional education, or simply acquiring a broader perspective? There are lots of great free training opportunities out there that will enable you to do all these things. And we’ve reviewed many of them on this blog. Below is a complete list.

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Looking for some great resources to help your kids succeed at school this year? Here’s a list of some of The Best Free Training reviews published in the last year that might help you find what you’re looking for. Enjoy!

• GED for Free (Online GED Prep Course)

• E-Books Directory

• Online Environmental Training: Four Short Courses

• Microsoft’s Office Online Training

• Visualizing Cultures: Image-Driven Scholarship [Japan after Perry arrived]

• Our Courts: 21st Century [United States] Civics

• LearnOutLoud’s Free Resource of the Day Newsletter

• eduFire: Absolute Freedom to Teach and Learn!

• Science from Superheroes to Global Warming

• Health U Collection of Video-based Basic Medical Courses

• Alison ABC IT (1-2-3) [Basic Computing & IT Skills]

• Spanish Steps [Beginner’s Course in Practical Spoken Spanish]

• Internet for Electrical and Communications Engineering

• Web Search Strategies in Plain English

• [Aaron] Copland and the American Sound

• Funbrain: Educational Games, Blogs, & More Great Stuff for Kids Young & Old

• BBC Skillswise: Basic Adult Reading, Writing & Math Skills [English]

• LearnOutLoud’s Back to School Special: Hundreds of Free Academic Intro Resources

And from 2008…

Below is a link to a blog post that I published last year at this time. Most of the sites reviewed are still going strong, so I hereby encourage you to revisit this post. Happy back-to-school days!

• Back to School Guide: Useful Free Resources for Students

Whoo Hoo! The Best Free Training was just named One of “100 Best Self-Education Sites for Switching Careers” by Online Colleges.net This is truly gratifying, since I really do spend a lot of time trying to find great freebies that will help people switch careers. I know there are a lot of people in this job market who need to learn new skills quickly so they can keep working and keep their families fed! So this is a valuable mission to support.

So… How can you find all the career-oriented reviews here on The Best Free Training?

Here are four suggestions:

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