Education, money, and girls are three very different things that are not directly related to each other. However, they can all play important roles in a person's life.
Education is essential for personal and professional growth. It provides you with knowledge, skills, and opportunities that can help you succeed in life. A good education can also lead to better job prospects and higher earning potential.
Money is also important, as it enables you to meet your basic needs and live comfortably. It can provide you with financial security and the ability to achieve your goals and dreams.
Girls, on the other hand, are individuals who can bring joy, companionship, and love into your life. While they are not essential to your success and happiness in life, they can certainly enhance it.
In summary, education, money, and girls are all important in their own ways and can contribute to a fulfilling life. It is up to each individual to find the right balance among these three aspects and prioritize them according to their own values and goals. Ultimately, it is important to remember that material possessions and relationships can bring temporary happiness, but true fulfillment comes from within, through personal growth, self-awareness, and a sense of purpose.
๐กThe Impact of Concentration on Specialization: Unlocking the Power of Focus๐ช
Introduction: In the realm of human knowledge and expertise, concentration plays a vital role in achieving success and pushing boundaries. It involves channeling focus, energy, and intellect into a specific field of specialization. By exploring deep into a particular area, individuals can acquire unparalleled expertise, insights, and capabilities. This article explores the profound impact of concentration, drawing analogies from physics formulas to highlight the advantages of specialization over general knowledge.
I. The Formula of Mastery:
Just as physics formulas encapsulate fundamental laws of nature, concentration encapsulates the essence of mastery. Let's consider the formula:
#Knowledge: The foundation of concentration is deep understanding, acquired through dedicated efforts in a chosen field. It forms the basis for specialization.
#Experience: Practical applications and real-world scenarios complement knowledge, enhancing concentration and providing valuable insights.
#Focus: Concentrating mental faculties and efforts on a specific area allows for deeper exploration, and making valuable connections.
To understand the concept of concentration better, let's consider an #analogy from #physics: #Pressure = Force/Area. Similarly, specialization enables individuals to dig deeper into their chosen field.๐ฆ The feet of a #goat and an #elephant differ greatly in their ability to penetrate the ground. Just as the pointed hooves of a goat allow it to penetrate the soil effortlessly, specialization enables individuals to dig deeper into their chosen domain.
๐ง #Psychiatrist vs. #Psychologist: A psychiatrist's specialization in understanding the complexities of the human mind surpasses that of a psychologist. Their concentrated knowledge allows for more targeted and effective therapeutic interventions.
⏰ Efficient Time Utilization: Concentration minimizes time wasted on peripheral information, allowing specialists to focus on mastering key elements.
๐ Increased Recognition: Expertise in a specialized field leads to recognition, career advancements, and collaboration opportunities..
๐ก Concentration is a powerful means for success and excellence. Embracing concentration allows us to leverage our knowledge, experience, and focus, transcending boundaries and making significant contributions to the world.
๐ Note to my dear followers:
In all my articles(what I post on LinkedIn), unless I mention the reference materials, it is from my own experiences, the way I think, understand, analyze and interpret concepts and ideas.
Here are the list of the top 20 common web errors. These errors often occur when there is a problem with the server or the website's code. Here are some of the most common web errors:
400 Bad Request
401 Unauthorized
403 Forbidden
404 Not Found
408 Request Timeout
500 Internal Server Error
502 Bad Gateway
503 Service Unavailable
504 Gateway Timeout
DNS Server Not Found
Connection Timed Out
Connection Refused
Connection Reset
Server Not Found
Too Many Requests
Invalid URL
Invalid Hostname
SSL Certificate Error
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Error
Buffer Overflow Error
These errors can be frustrating for website visitors, but they can usually be resolved by the website's developers or server administrators.
In this article, the Class Central team has come together to compile the single largest collection on free certificate courses available online.
Certificates can motivate learners to complete online courses. When the modern online course movement began, platforms like Coursera and edX offered free certificates. But by 2015, these had largely been replaced by paid ones.
Fortunately, universities like Harvard and Stanford still offer some free certificates. And so do platform like Coursera and edX. Finally, companies like Google and Microsoft have also started offering free certificates to promote their products.
Free certificates can be hard to find. So we compile them all here, testing each platform, earning a few certificates ourselves along the way. We’ve already spent 50+ hours on this article, and we’ll continue to update it as new offers appear.
If you know more free certificate courses, please share them in the comments.
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100+ free certificate courses primarily made by universities on a wide variety of topics.
But there’s more! The following universities and companies also offer courses with free certificates. Click on one to jump to the corresponding courses:
If you don’t find what you need in the course list below, browse Class Central‘s extensive catalog of 100,000 online courses or check out our curated collections:
From Gmail to Maps, Google offers a ton of useful apps. What many people don’t know is that Google also offers numerous online courses — and some of them include free certificates and badges!
So we decided to sift through Google’s entire online learning ecosystem to compile all their free certificate courses.
In total, we found over 700 courses, covering topics such as digital marketing, Google Analytics, and Google Cloud. You can find the full list in our dedicated article: 700+ Free Google Certifications.
Here are some examples of the certificate courses offered by Google, starting with courses on Google Analytics 4:
@manoel‘s certificate of completion for Stanford’s Intro to Food and Health
Stanford Medicine offers a flurry of online learning resources in the medical field, from podcasts to full-fledged courses, that include free certificates of completion.
Learners also have access to a formal transcript from Stanford, listing all the training they’ve completed. And if you work in healthcare, you can earn continuing medical education credit (CME credit) via the platform.
Here are some of Stanford free certificate offerings:
Webinar: The Pediatric Grand Rounds, a series of hour-long on-demand webinars, where experts discuss various topics related to children’s healthcare. Here’s a webinar that focuses on equity in pediatric care.
Podcast: The Stanford Medcast, a biweekly 30-minute medical podcast. Each episode focuses on a new topic, often related to recent medical developments. The most recent episode discusses stem cell therapy in multiple sclerosis.
Linkedin Learning Certificate: Customer Service Foundations by @suparn
Class Central’s @suparn searched LinkedIn Learning’s catalog of 9,000+ courses and 425 learning paths (which consist of a set of bundled courses) and identified the ones which are available for free and offer a free certificate.
A LinkedIn Learning certificate is available once you complete videos, quizzes, or exams. To earn a certificate for a learning path, you need to complete all individual courses in the path.
IBM Cognitive Class offers over 80 courses and 20 learning paths in data science, AI, big data, cloud computing and blockchain. It also provides a virtual lab environment allowing users to practice what they’ve learned in the courses. You can earn a badge or certificate of completion when passing 70% grade of each course.
900+ modules and 100+ hands-on projects are accessible free of charge on the platform. Guided learning paths such as trails, superbadges, and career paths are offered based on modules. You can even discover or curate personalized trails with trailmixes. After finishing all of the units in each module, you can get a free badge in your profile.
The Open University offers 800 free online courses via their OpenLearn platform. And these include free certificates of completion, and sometimes, badges.
Having completed a bachelor’s degree with the Open University, I can attest to the quality of their courses, which cover a wide variety of subjects, ranging from arts and language to science and technology.
Here are some of the courses you can take on OpenLearn:
Class Central’s catalog of Digital Marketing courses has grown to 3500 courses, but most of them require you to pay for a credential. So I decided to dig deeper and research free certificates related to Digital Marketing.
After tracking down as many free certificates as I could, including certificates from companies like Google, Facebook, LinkedIn Learning, Twitter, and Semrush, here is what I found: 1000 Free Digital Marketing Certificates and Badges.
freeCodeCamp Responsive Web Design certificate by @ruima
freeCodeCamp is a nonprofit that can teach you how to code online for free. It includes thousands of hours of learning content exploring topics ranging from web development to machine learning. The content is structured into certifications. Each is dedicated to a particular topic and leads to a free certificate of completion.
Here are the certifications currently offered by freeCodeCamp:
FutureLearn offers 50+ online courses with a free “digital upgrade”, which includes unlimited access to the course and quizzes. A digital Certificate of Achievement will be available upon completion. Here’s the full list:
Coursera offers 6 free courses about COVID-19 that include a free certificate (Expiring Dec 31st, 2022). Before trying to enroll, please wait for the promo banner to load at the top of the Coursera page, so you’ll be able to redeem the course for free.
You can also find 1600+ free courses on Coursera. They are, however, only free-to-audit. To earn a certificate you need to pay.
Free Certificates from MATLAB Academy
MATLAB Academy: @manoel‘s free certificate of completion
MathWorks, the company behind the MATLAB programming language and software, offers 13 free online courses through their MATLAB Academy platform.
The courses introduce learners to the MATLAB language and tools — with a focus on machine learning — and MathWorks’ specialized software, such as Simulink.
Most notably, MATLAB Academy courses include a free certificate of completion as well as an accompanying progress report.
Here are all the free courses currently offered on MATLAB Academy:
Kaggle is an online community for data scientists and machine learning practitioners. You can build your own data science and machine learning projects with over 50,000 public datasets and 400,000 public notebooks through a no-setup Jupyter Notebooks environment. Kaggle has run over 500 open competitions for learners and experts to grow data science skills. It also provides 16 free step-by-step practical courses to help you learn basic data science like Intro to Machine Learning or Feature Engineering. You’ll earn a completion certificate when you finish a course.
DataCamp Certificate: SQL Tutorial for Marketers by @ruima
30+ free courses with certificates in Python and R. Courses are designed into interactive document-based learning mode. A Statement of Accomplishment is available to download when you pass each chapter of the course.
Three of these courses have been ranked among Class Central’s Best Free Online Courses of All Time. After completing the final quizzes of each course module, participants are eligible to download certificates of completion.
HackerRank provides 21 free Skills Certification Tests including Angular, Java, Javascript and Python to help learners get certified in technical skills. Upon successfully clearing an assessment, you can promote yourself using the HackerRank certificate to peers and employers.
The Department of Computer Science at the University of Helsinki offers several free online courses through their independent MOOC platform MOOC.fi. 8 of the 17 free courses provide free certificates.
Redis University Certificate: Querying, Indexing and Full-Text Search by @vishnu
Redis University offers 7 free certificate courses to learn how to use Redis. You can earn a certificate by achieving a combined score of 65% or more on the weekly homework and the final exam before the course ends.
@manoel‘s openHPI certificate for participating in a conference. Course certificates look similar.
The MOOC platform of the Hasso Plattner Institute, openHPI, offers 70+ free certificate courses in computer science and digital technologies. Upon completion of a course, you may receive a Record of Achievement or a Confirmation of Participation.
Free Certificates from OpenSAP
Some of openSAP courses
OpenSAP offers 200+ free certificate courses in business and technology. You can earn a Confirmation of Participation by completing at least half a course, or a Record of Achievement by scoring at last half the points on all graded assignments.
Free Certificates from Canvas Network
Canvas Network homepage
60+ courses focussing on professional development (PD) for educators are free to enroll. Free badges and certificates are available though the instructor or the institution. Canvas Network does not issue a certificate.
Free Certificates from Marginal Revolution University (MRU)
Some of MRU courses
Marginal Revolution University (MRU) now provides 18 economics courses and series to everyone for free. Learning videos are also available on Youtube Channel. You will earn a certificate on your MRUniversity profile if you pass the final exam of a course you will earn the certificate on your MRUniversity profile.
Twitter Flight School allows you to learn about video advertising on Twitter. You can earn the badge by completing a series of training courses and achieving 80% or higher on a final assessment.
Great Learning offers 90+ free certificate courses in a wide variety of subjects like artificial intelligence, data science, programming, cloud computing, and digital marketing. A free certificate is available once you complete all videos and quizzes, and claim the final course certificate.
upGrad Certificate: Economics Masterclass by @suparn
upGrad offers 30+ free tech programs. These include courses in data science, programming, web development, and management. An e-Certificate of Completion is provided in 30 days after you successfully finish all the modules within your program. Your phone number is required while registering a course and you may receive calls and messages from upGrad.
Free Certificates from Hubspot Academy
Some Hubspot Academy courses.
Hubspot Academy offers 20 free certificate courses in digital marketing. You can earn a certificate after completing all videos, quizzes, and exercises, and passing the certification exam.
Free Certificates from Y Combinator Startup School
Y Combinator’s Startup School offers a free online program that includes 16 courses where founders explain how they built their startups. To get certified, you need to complete the entire curriculum, participate in a group session, and submit company updates 8 weeks in a row.
Free Certificates from GitLab
GitLab offers free certification programs to grow your tech professional skills. To earn a certificate, you have to score 80% or higher on all the quizzes and assessments.
Saylor Academy offers 100+ college level courses with free certificates in History, Business, Chemistry, Economics, Computer Science, and many more. To earn a free certificate, you have to pass a final exam with a grade of 70% or higher.
4 free self-paced courses in Data Science with Python from Jovian.ai. After completing all weekly assignments and the course project, you can earn a verified certificate of accomplishment for free.
Stepik Certificate: Basic Life Support and Automated External Defibrillation by @pat
Stepik, an interactive computer science education platform in Russian, offers 100 free courses with free certificates. You can automatically receive a certificate after completion of the course.
Open WHO offers 240+ self-paced courses with free certificates in epidemics, pandemics, and health emergencies. Courses are translated in three to five different languages. There are two types of certificates: learners can earn a Certificate of Participation simply for completing the course, and a Record of Achievement if they score at least 80% on all grade assignments.
The FAO elearning Academy offers 140+ free courses in food and nutrition security, social and economic development, and sustainable management of natural resources. A Digital Badge Certification is granted for some courses by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, after passing the final evaluation with a score of 75% or more.
Certificate of Completion: Sustainable Diet by @pat
The UN CC:e-Learn platform offers 39 free courses with certificates in climate change. Once you complete all learning materials and pass the final quiz with a score of at least 70%, a Certificate of Completion will be available for download on the course’s Certification page.
PhilanthropyU offers 30+ free courses with free certificates. To get a Certificate of Achievement, you need to score at least 50% on all quizzes and assignments.
Acumen offers 15 free scheduled team certificate courses about social change. You can receive a Statement of Accomplishment after submitting all of the required assignments before the final day of the course.
Free Certificates from International Training Centre
ITCILO offers 30 free certificate courses in sustainable enterprise development, labor laws, and gender equality in the workplace. Certificates or badges can be earned by meeting each course requirements.
The University of Urbino offers 9 courses with free certificates. A certificate and a badge can be obtained after completing all the learning materials and passing the online tests.
