3 best paid Online learning sites you should know

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever” said Mahatma Ghandi. This is simply ture. We never stop learning until we die. So better learn most of the things while you can. 🙂 Now with the technology is all around us, learning has gone to a whole another level and learning now has more paradigms more than ever and we can hope it will increase with this rate of technology advancements.

Back then when there were no computers and technology was at a minimum level, there were few learning methods like traditional classroom learning and face to face learning.But now when we look at in a learning perspective online learning, e-learning,distance learning, m-learning new paradigms has arrived and established well with the users. Today we going to introduce some paid online learning sites which a great from my experience although I am not a member of those sites I had the chance of learning from some of the materials and they have turned out to be pretty good. Except for the last one. One of my friend has tried that and told that was quite helpful too. One other thing. Literally you can learn anything from online sites in the internet. But these are some tech related sites that I found.  🙂 . So here we go.

1. Lynda

Lynda is one of the biggest and known online learning courses available. It is popular for its wide variety of courses offered to the members. Currently they 3441 courses and initially you can start a free trial for 10 days and if you feel the interest you can  subscribe to a basic subscription plan for 25$ a month. It has a wide range of course including programming, multimedia, photography, 3d animation, business and education. These course are carefully designed, modularized and categorized in beginner,intermediate, advanced levels and you can track your progress during the course and even better you can have a hands on experience while you are learning by playing with the exercise files provided. They have group subscription plans and academic subscription plans for academic institutes which is pretty much interesting.

2. CBT Nuggets

CBT Nuggets is the best place if you are interested in computer networks and systems. it has wide variety courses including network,system administration and engineering, cloud computing, programming and also project management. It offers some vendor certification training courses for Cisco, Juniper, Microsoft, AWS also. I have followed a very few course there but I can personally guarantee you that they are very descriptive and touches all depths of the subject. Two downsides are that nugget videos are too lengthy and it can sometimes be boring and even the basic subscription can go as high as 99$ a month. Thats like 10000 + rupees for month :/ .But they also have 7 day trial and individual and group subscriptions as well.

3.SilkShare

In SilkShare , more focus is on creativity rather than hard core technical courses. One interesting thing rather than teaching in courses they have class concepts which you can take if you are interested and these classes are more interactive than plain old courses. It has classes for creativity,crafting,entrepreneurship,fashion,music,photography as well as arduino,web programming, email marketing, mobile development and so on. In SilkShare you can either learn or you can be a teacher and teach stuff as well. With SilkShare you can start with a 14 day trial period or have basic subscription for 10$ a month.

These courses are followed by the academics and industry professionals all over the world. Some companie use these materials to train their employees also. Of course everything has a price these days so education or learnings doesn’t come free always. Have sign up for the course and try the trials. If you feel it just by the courses. Most of the time it will be the cost of 2 t shirts you are wearing right now. Anyways money spent on knowledge is not going to be a waste. May be thats why Mahatma Gandhi said   “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever”.