New Portals for OERs


Long overdue, in my opinion, but our national skills and careers services in the UK have launched new portals that collate and promote OERs for skills development.

Skills Development Scotland have launched a Free Online Courses portal: https://www.myworldofwork.co.uk/learn-and-train/find-free-online-courses

The National Careers Service (England) has launched The Skills Toolkit: https://nationalcareers.service.gov.uk/find-a-course/the-skills-toolkit

If you are a career development professional and you complete any courses that you find useful for your self or for your clients, let me know and I will add to the OERs for Career Development page on my website (if they aren't already listed there!).

Note that as I am based in the UK, I post resources that are UK-orientated. Some of the courses listed via the portals above may be targeted at a non-UK audience, so always try them out before recommending!

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