Regardless of your educational background, these educational websites offer inspiring creative learning for all levels. Whether you’re curious about garden design, fine art, music or crafting, there is a course to suit your desires. Here are three free or low-cost creative online courses to try…
Creative Online Courses
Permaculture Design
The Permaculture Women are offering a variety of free online courses. The Permaculture Women’s Guild’s mission is to empower busy, creative women to spend more time designing gardens, homesteads, and livelihoods that not only regenerate the Earth, but also heal, shelter, and rejuvenate our broken society. The Permaculture Women offer free and affordable online courses and networking opportunities for people of all levels of expertise. You can join their dedicated Facebook group and share your garden and plant pictures, discuss garden designs and connect with other keen green-fingered ladies.
Film, TV, Music Online MasterClass
If you’re passionate about film, TV and music, you can learn from those who have mastered their craft at MasterClass online. Priced at $15 per month (billed annually) you can enjoy unlimited classes. Classes range from scientific thinking from astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Annie Leobivitz teaching Photography or the art of self-expression from famed queen of drag RuPaul. Learning a new skill online will help you to spread your wings and potentially pursue a new career after lockdown. Doing the hard-work online gives you loads more time for linking up with event and entertainment companies offering audio visual jobs when everyone is back at work.
Get Creative With Skillshare
Skillshare offers more than 20,000 classes from animation, cooking, design to creative writing and tech. Skillshare has a spectacular variety of creative online courses. The courses are taught by experienced highly enthusiastic practitioners, so they are bound to ignite your creative passions. There are some classes available for free, like the ‘Going Freelance’ or ‘Intro to SEO’, alternatively for less than £10 per month, you can unlock all 30,000 courses at the premium level.
So what do you think, might you be tempted to turn your hand to something creative? Additionally, when exploring these online platforms, it’s essential to consider privacy implications and user consent, especially in the context of data collection and usage. Google Consent Mode, for instance, offers solutions to manage user consent preferences effectively, ensuring compliance with regulations and enhancing user trust.
‘The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt’
– Sylvia Plath
