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| © Marta Podniece 'The Postcard' |
Not a long while ago I enrolled myself in an online course about
Erasmus+ Funding Opportunities for Youth, which was held on a learning platform called '
Canvas Network'. However, while completing this course the whole new world of online education winked at me and triggered to dive deeper into it and explore the enormous possibilities of online education available for today's curious learner. While looking for the online opportunities to study the subjects that have caught my interest I was directed to Erasmus+ funded portal called '
Open Education Europa' [www.openeducationeuropa.eu] that serves as a network offering information on a wide range of
MOOCs [Massive Open Online Courses], courses, resources and institutions that contribute to this joint idea of making the connected and innovative way of learning possible. However, particularly a few learning platforms caught my eye by offering free online courses in various disciplines, namely
FutureLearn [www.futurelearn.com] and
iversity [https://iversity.org], and the previously mentioned
Canvas Network [www.canvas.net].
I decided to explore and compare the options each of these learning platforms offer like what can you can study online, who is offering you the education and in what language, how the learning is done, how can you prove that you have studied and are these free online courses really FREE?
