ONLINE TRAINING & PROGRAMMING COURSES

e-Learning for Dummies
If you loved the For Dummies books, you'll love the For Dummies courses! For Dummies e-Learning gets you to the point: spend your time learning what's important and skip the non-essentials. The interactive learning tools keep you engaged in your course, and it's available anytime, anywhere. The easy-to-use reference material allows you to browse through a course again and again, or search for a topic to get a brief overview. E-Learning for Dummies offers many different course series, with new courses being introduced regularly.

• Access 2003 For Dummies
• Excel 2003 For Dummies
• Outlook 2003 For Dummies
• PowerPoint 2003 For Dummies
• Word 2003 For Dummies

Learn more about these For Dummies online programming courses.

Serebra Learning Corp
Serebra Learning Corp offers hundreds of online training courses in a wide variety of Professional and End User subjects. Technology based training "TBT" enables you to become more efficient and helps you keep up with new technology demands for your current job as well as opening up new job opportunities. TBT allows you to learn anything, anytime, anywhere in a way that is more cost-effective, efficient, and convenient than traditional instructor led training. Online training courses include:

• Migrating to Lotus Notes R5
• Mac OS9
• Troubleshooting Your Mac
• MS Office 2000
• MS Office 97
• MS Project
• Computer and Operating System Basics
• Windows 2000
• Windows 95
• Windows 98
• Windows NT Workstation
• MYOB 10.5

Learn more about these online training courses and take a free test drive.

Mindleaders
MindLeaders interactive e-Learning allows you to take courses anytime, anywhere. Over 850 training courses offered, and feature quality content, interaction, graphics and quizzes, making learning interesting and effective. Online computer training and software courses currently offered include:

• Computer Basics
• Computing Concepts
• Office 2000
• Windows XP Upgrade: Home Edition
• Windows XP Upgrade: Professional
• Windows 98 Tips

• New CLAIT
  New CLAIT, or Computer Literacy & Information Technology, is the latest basic computer curriculum program for pre-university students in the United Kingdom. These courses cover five of the New CLAIT units -- word processing, electronic communications, spreadsheets, databases, and presentation graphics.

Learn more about these online computer hardware and software training courses.

One of the best values in e-learning; you'll get unlimited access to high-quality online courses for a full twelve months!

Computer Forensic Training Center Online
Computer Forensic Training Center Online offers a self-paced training course designed for professionals such as network administrators, MIS and IS specialists, auditors, fraud examiners, investigators and similar specialists. The course will teach and emphasize using sound forensic processes and methodologies to conduct forensic examinations, as well as how to forensically recover all of the data from the DOS, Windows 95 and Windows 98 operating systems so that it may be used in hearings or other proceedings. Much of the course requires the completion of practical exercises, including creating and verifying forensically sterile examination media, hands-on examination of practical exercise disks and a hard disk drive with real life forensic issues. The course is available for college credit and you will be assigned a Certified Forensic Computer Examiner as a coach who will instruct you in any issues that you may need help with. A certificate of completion is awarded to students who successfully complete the course.

Learn more about this online forensic training course.

E-Learn.uk.com
E-Learn.uk offers distance learning through the internet, giving students an interactive educational experience and the opportunity to study through highly accredited learning providers. With well over 400 hundred vocational and career training courses available online, E-Learn.uk offers something for everybody. E-Learn.uk.com offers the following online training courses and programs:

• Microsoft Excel 2000 Certificate
• Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 Certificate
• Microsoft Word 2000 Certificate
• Technology in Business Certificate

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Ashworth University
Ashworth University is a widely respected, nationally accredited distance education school, and offers the following computer repair program:

• Professional PC Technician Program

Ashworth University is an Accredited Member of the Distance Education and Training Council and is qualified under the Defense Activity for Non-Traditional Education Support, or DANTES program.

Learn more about this PC technician program.

Penn Foster Career School
Established in 1890, Penn Foster Career School is one of the oldest and largest distance learning institutions in the world. Students can study online, in print, or a combination of each - you decide which method best suits your learning style. Education Direct offers the following computer training programs:

• PC Fundamentals Program
• PC Repair Program
• PC Specialist Program

Penn Foster Career School is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Secondary Schools for high school and vocational-technical programs, and by the Accrediting Commission of the Distance Education and Training Council (DETC). Penn Foster Career School is affiliated with DANTES, which qualifies U.S. military personnel for tuition reimbursement. Many Penn Foster programs are approved for U.S. Armed Forces veterans training benefits.

Penn Foster Career School offers affordable, all-inclusive pricing—among the lowest of all career schools—and 0% interest financing and customized payment plans.

Allied Schools
Whether you want to train for a new career, advance within your current company, or simply learn new skills to stay competitive in today’s job market, Allied’s distance education training can help. Students are offered fully-staffed Educational Support and a Student Services Department ready to answer any questions you have. Allied also offers a Career Assistance Center Director who can personally offer helpful advice on resume, cover letter preparation, networking, interviewing skills and more. Computer training courses currently offered:

• Microsoft XP Professional
• Microsoft Office 2000 Professional
• Desktop Publishing

Learn more about these distance learning computer courses.

CYBA3
Cyba3.co.uk offers online training for the computer games and modelling industry. Courses offered:

• 3D Studio Max Training for Games Character Design Animation and Modelling
• Director 8 Multimedia Course for Showreel Design

CADD Primer
Dedicated to CADD education, CADD Primer offers a free online CAD Tutorial for beginners as well as hundreds of links to CAD resources.

Delphiland - Delphi Tutorials
At Delphiland you'll find free Delphi Tutorials together with fully commented projects and source code; Mini-Tutorials including fully commented source; Source Code Snippets; tips; library; useful functions and procedures; book reviews and a Q & A forum.

EducateU - eLearning from Dell
You'll find over 1200 online training courses to choose from at EducateU. Topic categories include Business Skills, IT, Home Technology, and Certification.

eLearningToday.com
eLearningToday.com offers self-paced online training courses in over 35 titles including:

• Access 2000
• Lotus Notes 5
• Organizer Millennium Edition
• Project Management
• Web Design Fundamentals
• Windows ME
• Windows NT
• Publisher 2000

GCF Global Learning
GCF Global Learning is a not-for-profit organization, a division of Goodwill Industries of Eastern North Carolina, Inc., whose mission is to provide jobs and job training to remove barriers to employment for people with disabilities and disadvantaging circumstances. GCF Global Learning provides free online training in a variety of topics, including:

• Computer Basics
• Internet Basics
• Microsoft Windows 95
• Office 2000
• Access 2000
• Excel 2000
• Word 2000

Innovatia eLearning Center
The Innovatia eLearning Center offers online self-paced courses covering a wide spectrum of technologies ranging from networking to security to wireless.

Knowledge Anywhere
Advanced Training Solutions offers a variety of general interest training courses available. Online course categories include:

• Business Skills Development
• Home and Small Business Skills Development
• Desktop Computing Fundamentals
• Web Development
• Computing Professional Courses
• Technical Hardware-Software Skills

LearnASP
Free online lessons and tutorials for learning ASP (Active Server Pages), plus links to more ASP resources.

Microsoft Office Training
Microvideo Learning Systems offers Microsoft Office 2000 training online via Intranet/Internet, stand-alone CD-ROM or video tape workbook/exercise disk. Learn Access 2000, Excel 2000, Outlook 2000, Powerpoint 2000 and Word 2000 via interactive streaming video. Individuals and corporate users can purchase training products for 1 day, 1 week or per month. Try the free demo.

Online Computer Science Certificate Program
Loyola University Chicago offers an online computer science certificate program for any one interested in acquiring the state of the art knowledge and skills in Java programming, object-oriented software development, networks and telecommunications, web development, and database management. All courses are for credit and are taught by the faculty of the Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences.

Profsr.com
Profsr.com offers a series of free self-study Web tutorials on various subjects: SQL, database modeling, web site design, HTML, UNIX, Visual Basic, MS-Access with more being added all the time. The tutorials are available in both English and French.

ProgrammingTutorials.com
At ProgrammingTutorials.com you'll find over 150 free online tutorials on most programming languages. The majority of tutorials are geared to the beginner and intermediate levels, with a few advanced tutorials available. Languages covered in the tutorials include: Ada, ASM/Assembly, ASP, C, C++, CGI, Cobol, Delphi, HTML, Java, Javascript, Perl, Python, Qbasic, SQL, Tcl/Tk, Visual Basic, VRML, XML and more.

Small Business Computing -- Not The Technology
This is an eight week course delivered via e-mail in Small Business Computing -- Not The Technology that focuses on practical realities of applying basic computer operations to any small business process, organization, or project. Students who complete the course will be able to computerize all or any part of a business, and work closely with more technically proficient computer specialists (as needed or desired) to make maximum use of available computer technology and use it to better achieve the goals of the business.

Software Testing Courses
The Testing Center offers online training classes in software testing. You'll learn how to find bugs fast, find the worst ones first, determine how well you're doing, and how to write an effective test plan. Current courses offered:

• Software Testing In The Real World
• Testing Client/Server Applications
• Regression Testing

SQL Course
SQL (pronounced "ess-que-el") stands for Structured Query Language and is used to communicate with a database. This unique introductory SQL tutorial is available online for free and provides easy-to-understand SQL instructions, plus it allows you to practice what you learn using the on-line SQL interpreter. When you've completed this first course, you can move on to the sequel: SQLCourse2.com - also free.

Stardeveloper - Microsoft Active Server Pages
Stardeveloper.com offers a wide range of ASP and database tutorials. Here's a few of the available tutorials:

• ASP Tutorial for Beginners
• ASP 3.0 Object Model
• Creating ASP Search Engine
• Connections, Commands and Procedures

WorldWideLearn.com Training
WorldWideLearn.com offers over 300 professionally developed online training courses delivered directly to your browser. An annual subscription of 75 or US$99 provides you with unlimited access to all online training courses which are available for immediate download to your computer. Here's a small sampling of course categories you can choose from:

• Office XP
• Windows 2000
• DOS
• Word
• Access
• Publisher
• Programming
• Databases
• Macintosh
• Lotus