For many, summer is an opportunity to rest and change of scene. But sometimes we have to stay at home, which does not mean that we have to be unemployed..
Fortunately for many, less activity in our daily study or work routines can also lead to more free time that can be used to train ourselves. Internet will allow us to do it comfortably through your computer with different online courses. We are going to see 9 free Google courses to improve your work .
They are courses with official certificates, so that we can add this new acquired competence to our curriculum..
The courses that we are going to see are endorsed, for the most part, by Red.es and the EOI.
From Google they bet with this program for access to information and training to develop ideas and achieve what they want, helping professionals to activate and acquire new skills with the following courses.
Online course in Digital Marketing
In this course, basic skills on SEO, SEM, e-commerce, social media marketing and mobile devices, web analytics and entrepreneurship will be acquired..
In addition, it will focus in a very practical way to learn how to make a business plan if you want to create your own company, so that everything learned in the business world is useful.
- Available until December 31, 2016
- Duration: 40 hours
- Taught by EOI
- Test after each module and final exam of 30 questions
- The diploma is issued by EOI
Online course on Web Analytics
It is a basic course in web analytics to learn how to interpret and analyze the traffic data of a web page .
In this way, it is possible to identify which content is most interesting for the users who visit the page, to know data such as the average time they stay on the website and based on them try to design a business plan to attract more visits.
- Available until December 31, 2016
- Duration: 40 hours
- Taught by EOI
- Test after each module and final exam of 30 questions
- The diploma is issued by EOI
Online e-commerce course
In this case, the course is focused on creating an Internet business or transforming a traditional business into an online business.
Throughout the course you will see the basic concepts that are needed to avoid making mistakes in its implementation and the different alternatives available to buy and sell products and services on the Internet.
- Available until December 31, 2016
- Duration: 40 hours
- Taught by EOI
- Test after each module and final exam of 30 questions
- The diploma is issued by EOI
Cloud Computing online course
One of the emerging sectors in the world of computing is cloud computing .
Google offers us a basic course to know how to take advantage of all the advantages that the cloud supposes, with a review of very important issues such as security, what companies are looking for and practical use cases that will help to be more clear about how to take advantage of this way of using the cloud.
- Available until December 31, 2016
- Duration: 40 hours
- Taught by the EOI
- Test after each module and final exam of 30 questions
- The diploma is issued by the EOI
Online App Development Course
This course taught by the Complutense University will allow us to acquire the basic skills and concepts to create applications for mobile devices .
It is focused on both the development of apps on Android and iOS, development platforms, the fashionable augmented reality thanks to Pokemon Go and Google and Lenovo's Project Tango, or the stores and different ways of marketing an app.
- Available until December 31, 2016
- Duration: 40 hours
- Taught by the Complutense University of Madrid
- Test after each module and final exam of 30 questions
- The diploma is issued by the Complutense University of Madrid
Online web development course
This is a course taught by the University of Alicante.
It consists of an initial introduction detailing how the Web was born and developed to end up offering the tools and knowledge necessary for the student to complete the course knowing how to create a page correctly and easily using HTML5 .
- Available until December 31, 2016
- Duration: 40 hours
- Taught by the University of Alicante
- Test after each module and final exam of 30 questions
- The diploma is issued by the University of Alicante
Personal Productivity online course
This is a very interesting course for entrepreneurs and self-employed professionals.
First of all, it will help us with such important issues as personal branding, teamwork with groupware tools or making effective presentations.
Also in something as important as time management , which for a freelancer can mean the difference between daily stress and a much more effective organization.
- Available until December 31, 2016
- Duration: 40 hours
- Taught by the Santa María la Real Foundation
- Test after each module and final exam of 30 questions
- The diploma is issued by the Santa María la Real Foundation
Online Entrepreneurship Itinerary
This is a course to help those entrepreneurs who have a good idea, but do not know very well where to start .
The lessons revolve through some concepts that have to do with learning to address the user, highlighting the value created by your business idea over other products or services on the market or learning to use the group work tools necessary for the development of said idea.
- Available until December 31, 2016
- Duration: 60 hours
- Taught by the IEI of the University of Alicante
- Test after each module and final exam of 30 questions
- The diploma is issued by the IEI of the University of Alicante
Analytics Academy
In this case it is a series of courses that will allow us to acquire great training on Google Analytics .
The courses are conducted through video tutorials and are taught in English.
It consists of five basic courses, each of them about 40 hours long, which can be done independently or jointly. In any case, if you do not already have previous knowledge, it is interesting to take the Analytics fundamentals course and then choose the one you want, whether it is e-commerce, mobile, how the platform works or making decisions with the data obtained.
- It has no end date
- Duration: 200 hours
- Taught by Google
- Test after each module
- It does not issue an official diploma, although it enables us to successfully pass Analytics exams
There are also two other courses that are taught in person, such as the Basic Online Marketing Course, focused on young graduates and entrepreneurship training, which would be a total of three days and for which there are still some free dates. Of course we have more than enough material to not get bored this summer.
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