 | Oideachas saor ó ALISON.com (January 19, 2012) | | | Tá sé ráite ag fiontraí gur cheart do dhaoine atá dífhostaithe tuilleadh oideachais agus scileanna a fháil trí chúrsaí a dhéanamh ar líne. Dúirt Mike
Feerick, bunaitheoir an tsuímh alison.com, gur féidir le daoine, nach bhfuil
sé d’acmhainn acu íoc as oideachas ‘traidisiúnta’ go háirithe, neart a
fhoghlaim agus an curriculum vitae atá acu a fheabhsú trí chúrsaí Alison
a dhéanamh. |
| Free education at ALISON.com (January 19, 2012) | | | An entrepreneur has said that the unemployed can further their education and skills through online courses. Mike Feerick the founder of the website ALISON.com said that people who cannot afford traditional education can learn from a selection of courses and improve their CV by doing courses with ALISON. “You are able to do courses from certificate level to diploma level in your own time, in any place and for free. |
| Galway-based online learning provider wins top UNESCO prize (January 31, 2011) | | | Galway Advertiser, January 20, 2011. Galway Advertiser ALISON CEO Mike Feerick receives Diploma Award from Irina Bokova, the Director General of UNESCO, and the Deputy Prime Minister of Bahrain, His Highness Sheikh Mohamed Bin Mubarak Al-Khalifa. Galway-based free online learning provider ALISON.com was among the four winners of the 2010 UNESCO-King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious prizes for innovation in ICT for Education. Mike Feerick, CEO & Founder of ALISON was presented with the “Honourable Mention” Diploma Award by the Director General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, and representatives of the prize sponsor, the King of Bahrain at a ceremony at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France last week. ALISON provides free online interactive courses for basic education and workplace skills. Launched in April 2007, ALISON now has over half-a-million registered learners in 200 countries worldwide providing over 150 courses at Certificate & Diploma level. Although primarily focused on Digital Literacy and IT Skills, ALISON also provides courses on a wide range of course categories including English language, Health & Safety, Business & Entrepreneurship, Maths, Law, Accounting and Basic Science. |
| New Learning and Earning Opportunities for 2011 – ALISON CEO, Mike Feerick (January 7, 2011) | | | As we enter a
new year I would like to thank all our registered learners and
trainers who helped ALISON free learning grow so strongly during 2010.
We
published over 100 new courses, including our very successful Diploma
courses, and
our monthly learner traffic rose to new highs in nearly every country
worldwide. Sincere thanks to all our volunteers, our country volunteer
managers,
and those who assisted our learners achieve throughout the year.
Highlights of
the year include recognition by the Ashoka Foundation for our
pioneering of
social entrepreneurship in education and the "UNESCO ICT in Education" Diploma Award,
both international endorsements
of the highest level. |
| New Multimedia Certificate Courses to Develop your Web Development and Design Skills (October 20, 2010) | | | Prospective multimedia and web development enthusiasts have been given
a new way to learn with the release of a new suite of online
interactive multimedia suite of free online courses. ALISON, the free
online learning website, officially announced today the release of a
suite of web editing and design courses to the general public. The
video-based tutorials are delivered by award-winning multimedia teacher
Russell Stannard, now of Warwick University, which help you explore
multimedia applications and examine webpage, animation and graphics
editing and design. The courses are ideal for those looking to improve
their workplace skills, those who wish to develop new skills in their
spare time, or share professional multimedia applications with friends
and family. |
| ALISON Recognised by US Investment Bank (October 12, 2010) | | | US Investment bank firm RW Baird have recognised ALISON as a rapidly growing e-learning company to watch and was recently profiled in the company’s Education Services research publication. The research acknowledges ALISON’s strong growth prospects in the highly dynamic online education emerging. |
| Ambitious Social Enterprise Providing Free IT skills (June 7, 2010) | | | As organisations’ IT training budgets continue to be cut, an ambitious social-enterprise is offering an innovative free solution. The online course-provider ALISON.com has just announced details of an introductory Information Technology released to the public. |
| (June 1, 2010) | | | Training Press Releases » As the Gulf of Mexico oil spill continues to ravage the American coastline, the free online course provider, ALISON.com is drawing attention to the environment with the release of its new Geography course - 'Introduction to Environmental Awareness'. |
| Free online training - The Immigrant,Cork's multicultural newspaper (January 11, 2008) | | | Alison offers interactive multimedia training to individual users and enables anyone, anywhere to educate themselves online for free. It initial focus is to develop a portfolio of interactive multimedia courses on every certifiable subject relating to the modern workforce including ICT, Health & Safety and Diversity so that a complete library of certifications desired by an employer is available online. |
| For wisdom on the wing...go for e-Learning (December 3, 2007) | | |  Business Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Monday, Dec 03, 2007
E-Learning, but without high costs? That’s what learners on the move, who cannot attend regular courses, would like. And that’s why ideas like ALISON are welcome.
This Web site’s starting point is basic skills for the workplace so that makes it (at http://alison.com/free-training/About-ALISON) perfect for the fresher on his first job or an intern entering the office environment for the first time.
But as the http://alison.com/individuals page proudly states, “Our current offering consists of globally popular IT literacy courses such as ECDL/ICDL, e-Citizen, and Touch Typing, as well as courses on diverse subjects such as Financial Literacy (IFLC Level One) and Psychometric Testing. A wide variety of courses on subjects such as Internet Marketing, English, and Workforce Readiness will soon be available.” Developed by a for-profit social enterprise based in Galway, Ireland, ALISON enables anyone, anywhere, to educate themselves via interactive multimedia for free, according to the site. As its makers say, “ALISON provides high-quality, interactive, certified and standards-based learning free to the individual learner.” Advertisement dependent, the system can offer free learning because “When a learner clicks on an advertisement, ALISON earns revenue. That revenue is then shared with content publishers and used to invest in new ‘free to the learner’ offerings.”
The courseware is designed to meet international certification standards, according to the site. No previous knowledge of computers is required to use and benefit from the site. And in case you have expert knowledge you would like to share, contact the volunteers page and do your bit for the project. |
| Breaking Education Barriers with Free Learning (July 22, 2007) | | | 
Since its launch early this year, ALISON (Advance Learning Interactive Systems Online: www.alison.com) has become one of the popular free learning online communities. Presently it has registered learners from 171 countries. And by the end of the year the number of users is expected to reach one million. |
| Association for Education and Ageing: FROM THE CHAIR….. (July 1, 2007) | | |  Those of you who don’t have access to a computer may well be getting a touch irritated by number of references your editor makes to websites and such. Maybe you think learning to use a computer is going to be both intimidating and expensive and anyway you don’t have access to one. |
| ALISON.COM (June 30, 2007) | | |  Mike Feerick CEO of ALISON, one of the most ambitious and innovative i |
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