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<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>Developed by award-winning teaching fellow Russell Stannard, this free online course teaches you how to create professional animated multimedia videos for your business or place of employment, or simply to entertain your friends and family. Start the course and begin making professional animated videos today!<br />

<p>This course is the ideal introduction to the skills and techniques needed to excel in graphic design and is ideal for the small business owner or home-based entrepreneur keen to develop their own web presence. </p> <p>This free e-learning course is also a useful complement to ALISON's Graphic Design suite of courses. </p> <p>The lessons explore the fundamentals of design principles and examines their application using Adobe Photoshop CS3. </p>

<p><strong></strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This free online course is all about healthy living. It is intended to make you more aware of what you eat and drink. This course will show you how to exercise and create a balanced diet that can help you to stay fit and healthy. It will help you to follow a healthy lifestyle by choosing foods that are appropriate for you and this will help you to plan your exercise regime. It will also explain calories and food energy. It will make you think about the dangers of alcohol. This course will help you to understand food labels and help you put healthy eating into practice.</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Note</span>: This course has been optimised for Internet Explorer, some features may not function or display correctly in other Web browsers such as Firefox. </p> <p></p>

Skype has revolutionized online communications. This free online course shows you in a step-by-step manner how to download the Skype application, create a Skype account, add contacts to your list, and communicate using instant messaging, voice calls using a microphone and speakers, and video calls using a Webcam. Learn how to use Skype and you can communicate with family and friends around the world.<br />

YouTube is the No. 1 video sharing Web site in the world. Everyday millions of users upload and view videos on YouTube - now you can learn how to use YouTube, too. This free online course shows you how to create an account on YouTube, set up your own YouTube channel, upload videos to your account, and select your favourite videos. Use this course to learn about YouTube and you can share your videos with the world.

Adobe Flash is the leading software programme for producing multimedia applications. In this free online tutorial for Adobe Flash CS3, you will learn in a step-by-step manner how to use the Flash interface, how to create basic ActionScript code, and how to incorporate video into Adobe Flash CS3. You will also learn how to create interactive quiz questions. Use this course to learn more about Abode Flash CS3 and you will be able to create sophisticated multimedia presentations.<br />

This free online course is an introduction to the skills and techniques needed to record and publish podcasts to the Web. This course covers using Audacity to record and edit podcasts, and how to create an online account with Podomatic to publish podcasts to the Web. Russell Stannard, an award-winning lecturer from the University of Warick, describes the use of these podcasting tools in a non-technical and step-by-step manner. The course is ideal for those who've always wanted to record and publish podcasts to the Web but lack the skills or knowledge to do it.<br />

Programme Découverte des technologies numériques 1: Au vingt-et-unième siècle, l'informatique fait partie intégrante de notre vie quotidienne. De la musique et des photos aux opérations bancaires et à la communication, les ordinateurs ont modifié la façon dont nous travaillons et vivons. Ce cours vous présente les notions de base en informatique, les composants d'un ordinateur, les notions fondamentales du système d'exploitation et vous montre comment utiliser une souris et un clavier.

Screen capture techniques allow you record what is happening on your computer screen, accompanied by a voiceover if required. This free online course shows you in a step-by-step manner how to record your computer screen using JING. This Web-based application allow you to record your computer screen along with a voiceover and upload the resulting videos onto the Web for others to view.<br />

ALISON’s free online Diploma in Web Design course is ideal if you’ve always wanted to create your own website but lacked the skills or knowledge to do so. Aimed at both the novice and intermediate web-designer, this comprehensive, easy-to-understand course will enhance your understanding of web development tools and techniques.<br /><br />Topics covered include the essential tools for web page development including HTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and Adobe Dreamweaver. It also examines the practical steps needed to build a website such as registering a domain name and choosing a hosting account.<br /><br />On completion of the ALISON free online course, you can obtain a Diploma-level qualification to enhance your skill set, resume and career prospects.<br /> <p> </p>

<p>Adobe After Effects is a popular software program for creating motion effects and visual graphics for video. </p><br /> <p>This free online course will introduce the After Effects GUI and workspace, as well as show you how to import and organise files, what video standards and presets are, and how to compose motion effects and visual graphics for video. </p>

Windows Movie Maker is a free video editing and publishing software program from Microsoft. This free online video editing course uses tutorials to show you how to use Windows Movie Maker to quickly and easily edit videos, add background audio or a voiceover, add transitions or effects to videos, and publish videos in a variety of formats. <br />

iTunes is a very popular digital media player application that you can use to connect to Apple's iTunes Store on the Web. This free online course shows you how to use iTunes to search for and download your favorite podcasts from the iTunes Store. Using iTunes you can download podcasts on any subject you are interested in. This course is ideal for learners who would like to use iTunes but do not have the skills or knowledge of how to download podcasts. <br />

ALISON's free online Diploma in Psychology is an engaging course, and is packed with features to help you understand and evaluate classic and contemporary psychology. These online psychology courses are ideal for those who want to gain comprehensive understanding of the main elements of psychology, and will be of great benefit to students in their career progression.<br /><br />Topics covered include classical conditioning, learning theory, the biological basis of behavior, visual perceptions, memory, and cognition.<br /><br />The Research Methodology section allows you to cast a critical eye on the research process, to explore the nature of psychology as an evolving science, and understand some of the ethical issues faced by psychologists.<br />

ALISON's free Diploma in Business Management and Entrepreneurship online business course gives you the opportunity to gain extensive knowledge and understanding of the principles and practices behind key business management subjects.<br /><br />Subjects include corporate management, operations management, accounting, human resources, financial accounting, and project management, as well as providing insight on key entrepreneurial skills from Bill Liao, co-founder of the social networking site XING.com.<br /><br />ALISON's business management certificate, with a focus on entrepreneurial studies, is ideal for those who want to further their knowledge and understanding of business management and entrepreneurship through an online business course, and will greatly enhance your career prospects.<br />

Blogs have become a common and widespread means of communicating on the Web. They allow individuals provide commentary or news on a particular subject, and they can also be used as more personal online diaries. This newly updated blogging course shows you how to create a blog using the popular blog publishing application WordPress. By studying this newly updated course you will be shown how to set up an account on WordPress, review the features on the WordPress dashboard, write and edit entries on your blog, add videos, images and Web links to the blog, and edit and filter pages on the blog. This free blog course is ideal for learners who want to create their own blogs online but lack the skills, knowledge, or confidence to do it.<br />

Facebook is the leading social networking Web site with over 500 million users. Chris Farrell, voted Number 1 Internet Marketer, explains in this free online course what Facebook is about, how to set up a Facebook account, how to set privacy settings, how to set up your personal profile, what the wall is, and how Facebook has become such an important component of online viral marketing. This course is ideal for those who want to use Facebook for social networking and online viral marketing but lack the skills or knowledge to do it.<br />

The free online Diploma in General Science course from ALISON is ideal for anyone who wants to gain a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of key subjects in biology, chemistry and physics. In biology you will covers subjects such as cell theory, genetics and evolution; in chemistry you will cover subjects such as atoms, molecules and the periodic table; and in physics you will cover subjects such as magnetism, electricity and sound. This Diploma course will be of great interest to those who want to further improve their knowledge and understanding of general science, and will greatly enhance your career prospects.<br />

ALISON.com's free online Diploma in Mathematics course gives you comprehensive knowledge and understanding of key subjects in mathematics. This course covers calculus, geometry, algebra, trigonometry, functions, vectors, data distributions, probability and probability and statistics. Math qualifications are in great demand from employers and this math course will greatly enhance your career prospects.<br />

This free online Diploma in Legal Studies course from ALISON.com gives you the opportunity to study key subjects in legal studies, greatly increasing your understanding and knowledge of legal systems and related procedures and practices.<br /><br />You will review the types of law and how they are created, how the adversary legal system operates, and what types of legal procedures there are.<br />