Why not join a Free Technical Online Course during the Lockdown

Narvijay Yadav : The world has changed after the crisis of COVID-19 pandemic. The Coronavirus has proved to be a game changer and the crisis has changed everything on the work front also. Even in the top IT companies, almost 75% or more staff have shifted to Work From Home (WFH) mode. While WFH is highly suitable for women and requires no traveling or wasting time on the roads, it has posed many challenges also. The companies and employees are finding themselves in a strange situation, where they have to learn new things on their own, because there would not be any supporting technical staff available at their home setting. They have to do everything on their own from solving technical issues to dealing with various kinds of software and machines related problems.

While the lockdown has stopped the world and sealed all the local and international borders. No travel, no shopping and no meeting with your friends and colleagues. But, it has created some useful scenarios too. You have got several lucrative offers these days to do some costly courses totally free of cost or at a highly discounted fee. And you know, the ladder to success in career and job depends on your skills. At a recent twitter chat, organized by NASSCOM Community and Bloggers Alliance, the experts said that “Your story is your brand, and your skill is your strength”.

For re-skilling and upskilling, many national and international organizations and universities have been offering some free online courses or courses at a heavy discount. For example, NASSCOM Futureskills division has been offering some fantastic courses on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning free of cost. Similarly, one of the top universities of the world, the Harvard University has announced more than 40 free courses, which otherwise cost upto Rs 2.5 lakh. Some of these very interesting courses include – Artificial Intelligence with Python (7 weeks), Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies (6 weeks), The Health Effects of Climate Change (7 weeks), Backyard Meteorology – The  Science of Weather (6 weeks) and Art of Persuasive Writing and Public Speaking (8 weeks). The last one, will start from 12^th May, while rest of the programmes are already open for students from all over the world. There is no barrier of age, qualification or prior training.       

There is a very useful WordPress Website Development Course available on www.exislearning.in at an unbelievable fee of Rs 299 only during the lockdown, however, the normal cost of this course is Rs 4,999. No coding or prior programming experience is required for this course. One can learn building a beautiful website using WordPress, earn revenue by monetizing the website, choose the right CMS, create own server, finding Plugins, one page search engine optimization (SEO) and creation of Menues, etc.

The course teaches you how to choose the right domain name, compare various hosting providers, host and publish your website in an inexpensive and secure way. It also teaches you about setting up webserver, pointing domain to hosting provider, besides telling how to migrate a website from local server to web server. In this powerful course, you will learn WordPress from scratch. With the help of this online training, you will be able to create WordPress websites easily and quickly. Next low cost course from exislearning.in will be about Digital Marketing at a highly discounted price of Rs 399 only. So, go ahead and register your name in some of these courses and climb the ladder of success.

* Narvijay Yadav, Advisor, NASSCOM Community, is a senior tech journalist and founder director of SpecttrumPR – a digital marketing communication consultancy. Twitter @narvijayyadav