{"id":6590,"date":"2025-03-20T14:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T14:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alison.com\/blog\/?p=6590"},"modified":"2026-01-07T10:45:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T10:45:47","slug":"alison-an-irish-leader-in-free-online-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alison.com\/blog\/alison-an-irish-leader-in-free-online-learning","title":{"rendered":"Alison: An Irish Leader in Free Online Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alison, an <strong>Irish-founded<\/strong> online learning platform, is committed to providing <strong>free access to education<\/strong> for learners worldwide. Since its launch, Alison has empowered millions with high-quality courses in <a href=\"https:\/\/alison.com\/courses\/business\">business<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/alison.com\/courses\/it\">technology<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/alison.com\/courses\/health\">healthcare<\/a>, and more &#8211; helping individuals gain valuable skills without financial barriers.<\/p>\n<p>The platform remains especially popular in the <strong>European Economic Area (EEA), with an average of 306,000 monthly users over the past six months<\/strong>. This strong engagement reflects the growing need for <strong>accessible and flexible education across Europe<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead, Alison is working towards an ambitious goal: <strong>hosting its platform in all 27 official languages of the European Union<\/strong>. By offering multilingual access, Alison aims to break down language barriers, making learning even more inclusive and impactful.<\/p>\n<p>As an <strong>Irish company<\/strong> leading the way in <strong>free education<\/strong>, Alison continues to innovate, ensuring that <strong>knowledge remains open to everyone, everywhere<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alison, an Irish-founded online learning platform, is committed to providing free access to education for learners worldwide. Since its launch, Alison has empowered millions with high-quality courses in business, technology, healthcare, and more &#8211; helping individuals gain valuable skills without financial barriers. The platform remains especially popular in the European Economic Area (EEA), with an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6591,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alison-hq-news","match-height"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/alison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Covid-19-Volunteer-Hall-of-Fame-1-1024x641.jpg","featured_category":"Alison HQ News","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alison.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alison.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alison.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alison.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alison.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6590"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/alison.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6621,"href":"https:\/\/alison.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6590\/revisions\/6621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alison.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alison.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alison.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alison.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}