There are a huge number of courses on the Internet in different disciplines - from cutting and sewing to photography. It is not always easy to choose the right ones among this variety.
All courses on the Internet can be divided into free and paid. The latter are not always more useful or informative. Many well-known universities periodically give everyone the opportunity to listen to certain lecture programs for free. At the same time, many paid courses turn out to be a completely useless pastime, and sometimes even outright fraud.
First of all, you need to determine the courses in which area you are interested in. After that, you can start looking. If you speak English, there are many more interesting possibilities open to you.
Free courses
If you just want to familiarize yourself with a certain area (cooking, sewing, modeling) in order to understand whether this or that occupation is right for you, you can look for the simplest free courses. There are a lot of them on the Internet. Conventionally, they can be divided into unnamed courses created by altruists and courses that professionals use for their promotion (well, or they are posted on the network out of the kindness of their soul).
Once you have selected several potentially interesting courses, search for information about them in a search engine. All kinds of reviews will allow you to understand whether it is worth wasting time on a particular free course or if you need to look for something else. Focus only on constructive feedback. Formulations like “listened for twenty minutes, complete nonsense” do not deserve attention. After reviewing the reviews, choose the option that best suits your needs.
Paid courses
With paid courses, things are a little more complicated. Usually they are suitable for a more in-depth study of a subject of interest to you, but there are a few nuances. First, you need to make sure that there are no scammers in front of you. Carefully study the information provided on the website of the organization that wants to sell you the course. Be sure to pay attention to licenses, certificates, and more. Secondly, it should be borne in mind that very often reviews directly on course sites can be fake, so it is best to look for information about such courses on third-party pages.
It is best to choose courses on the advice of friends. So there is much less chance of "running into" scammers. By the way, when paying for courses, use not your bank card, but electronic money or PayPal to comply with safety precautions. In general, if there is only one credit card payment option on the course website, this may indicate that you are dealing with scammers who are collecting personal payment data. Look for courses that offer alternative payment options.
