Free Training Resources

Free eLearning Resources

• Microsoft provides support and training for its Office suite of applications: support.office.com/
• Google provides support and training for its suite of applications: gsuite.google.com/learning-center/
• Many MOOCs offer free audit of courses, including Coursera: www.coursera.org/, EdX: www.edx.org/, and more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course
• Code Academy: https://www.codecademy.com/
• Alison Academy: https://alison.com/
• Find classes on Class Central: https://www.class-central.com/
• Courses and nanodegrees at Udacity: https://www.udacity.com/
• A collection of free and paid options to Learn Data Science: http://www.learndatasci.com/
• Khan Academy: https://www.khanacademy.org/
• Google any subject on YouTube www.youtube.com
• MIT open courseware: https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
• Academic Earth: http://academicearth.org/
• Stanford Online: http://online.stanford.edu/
• Harvard Extension School: https://www.extension.harvard.edu/open-learning-initiative
• Open Yale Courses: https://oyc.yale.edu/
• Free Online Courses from University of California, Berkeley: https://www.class-central.com/university/berkeley
• Free Online Courses from Future Learn: https://www.class-central.com/provider/futurelearn
• Free Online Courses from Harvard: https://www.class-central.com/university/harvard
• Free Online Courses from Google: https://www.class-central.com/institution/google
• Code.org: https://code.org/
• Open Culture - The best free cultural & educational media on the web: http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses
• Solo Learn: https://www.sololearn.com/

Library Databases

• ebrary e-books - Provides authoritative, full-text e-books in a wide range of subject areas along with powerful tools to find, use, and manage the information. (https://search-proquest-com.ezp.twu.edu/ebrary?accountid=7102)
• Kanopy - Thoughtful entertainment including the Criterion Collection, The Great Courses, Oscar-wining films, documentaries and more, including tech and soft skill training (http://twu.kanopystreaming.com/) [content varies]

Statistics

• Coursera (https://www.coursera.org/) has a great reputation of offering free data science and statistics courses.
• Udacity (https://www.udacity.com/) also offers free data science and statistics courses.
• Udemy offers a good SPSS course: https://www.udemy.com/spss-data-analysis-spss-online-video-training-course/

• RStudio webinars are a great source for learning R and they archive all of them here (https://www.rstudio.com/resources/webinars/) and save all their materials, including all the code and data that were used, on GitHub, which is great but also makes it less of an exercise/course because all of the "answers" are there, but it's a valuable resource. 

• For SPSS Laerd Statistics is a great resource (https://statistics.laerd.com/). While they charge for more in depth manuals, their free manuals take you through assumptions, how to run different statistical tests in SPSS, and how to interpret the output so you don't really need to subscribe.

• Youtube also has a free 8 part tutorial by RStatsInstitute that takes you through a basic introduction of SPSS up to running basic statistics like correlations and t-tests: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXLbK1bH-w1oklGm4dLYrHw 

• For students doing more complicated statistics like linear or stepwise regressions the SPSS tutorials website has good step by step instructions with screenshots and explanations: https://www.spss-tutorials.com/regression/    

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