Online Free Course for Verification of Digital Content to Combat Rumors on the Internet

This free online course gives participants the basic professional techniques that help them to confirm the news and to be able to play the role of reliable sources in their communities. By the end of this course, participants will be able to: recognize the date of verification of news and research methods for digital content; learn how to check the photos and videos; validate geographic locations; work to validate a number of news reports. Prizes will be awarded for the best reports
Training Type: Instructor-Led Online
Target Audience: Citizen journalists, professional journalists, media students and users of checkdesk.org

Online Free Course for Arab Digital Journalists

UNESCO and SMEX are developing an Arabic-language online course and open curriculum for independent media. The eight-week course will cover a range of topics, including a review of some basics with a digital spin, and new paths in journalism, such as data visualization and mobile reporting. Course content will draw from existing resources, reports, and guides; and will encourage learners to experiment with novel modes of journalism while developing a new portfolio of work

Participants will also engage with each other through discussion forums and “editorial meetings,” where they can exchange on issues related to ethics and media law, for example, as well as seek guidance during the course. Pop-up hangouts will feature guest speakers, allowing learners to talk to practitioners about the opportunities and challenges they face in the field. In addition, participants will complete a companion course in digital security for digital journalists, which will focus on their safety and the safety of their sources, and will be administered in parallel to the thematic module delivered every week. Participants who successfully complete the course will qualify for coaching as they pursue a capstone project. Exceptional participation and production during the course will be rewarded with an invitation to an on-site workshop with top-level digital journalists in Beirut 

Online Free Course on Savvy Strategist

This free online course about Savvy Strategist will teach you how to develop a savvy social media advocacy strategy that will help your team achieve its campaign goals. By the end of this skill set you will be able to develop a measurable digital strategy that supports advocacy efforts for a cause, organization, or campaign in your community

By the end of this training you will Earn the Savvy Strategist Badge after Master the Following Skills to 1) Defining Digital Advocacy; 2) Writing SMART Digital Goals; 3) Identifying Stakeholders & Creating Audience Profiles; 4) Messaging Strategy: Developing Messages; 5) Messaging Strategy: Delivering Messages; 6) Choosing & Implementing Tactics; 7) Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning

Training Type: Instructor-Led Online
Target Audience: Open to all

Online Free Course in Use of Digital Tools in Public Service Reporting

This free online course will get the the Participants learn how to identify and adapt emerging technologies; Twitter basics; Understanding and using social media; Reporting through crowdsourcing; Understanding and using mobile, SMS and location-aware services; Visual storytelling techniques; Mapping and mashups for beginners; Writing for the real-time Web; Online video production. The best 28 participants in the online course will then be invited to Cairo for a digital media “boot camp,” where they will have access to experts in technology, multimedia and online marketing who will help them create multimedia projects in public service journalism to illustrate the issues that affect ordinary people in their everyday lives
Training Type: Instructor-Led Online

Target Audience: Open to all journalists, citizen journalists and civil society actors from Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, West Bank/Gaza, and Yemen

Online Free Course in 21 Steps to Building a Web Business

This free online course covers the skills and techniques needed to create a successful online Web business. It describes the process of developing an online business in a non-technical and step-by-step manner. This course will teach you how to build a website in 21 days. It will help you understand the functionality of a website, teach you to how to properly upload web-friendly files to the web, and how to use FileZilla to successfully upload your website online. Understand important concepts such as choosing the correct domain name and how to host your account. You will also learn new techniques on how to make money from your online web business.
Training Type: Self-Paced

Target Audience: Open to all interested. The course is ideal for those who've always wanted to create an online Web business but lack the skills or knowledge to do it.

Online Free Fundamentals of Project Management

After completing this online free course you will understand the history of project management and learn from examples of interviews with project managers. This course will teach you the process of the systems development life cycle to help identify problems and create solutions in each stage of the projects life including planning, analysis, design, implementation and evaluation. You will gain a good knowledge of project management methodology. You will be able to identify and understand the most important tools used by a project manager including GANTT charts, PERT Diagrams, estimating activity time, scheduling, expediting and Critical Path Method. You will gain a good knowledge of program, system, technical, user, paper-based, electronic and media project management documentation. You will learn about different issues that can occur when an information system is changed or a new sytem is introduced.

Online Free Course in Covering Global Religious Conflict

This online free course will get the Participants learn how to 1) Explore coverage of religious conflict around the world, sharing a wide range of professional approaches. 2) Examine up-to-the-minute case studies of religious conflict from the Middle East to West Africa to Europe to the United States. The seminar will be flexible in responding to the latest news related to religion demanding the world’s attention. Several examples of international reporting and online conversations will challenge participants to become the best in the field in understanding and writing about religious tensions. 3) Receive objective tools for covering conflict through access to sources and the latest international research. Online tutorials will offer step-by-step help to guide reporters to relevant data.

Online Free Course in Use of Digital Tools in Public Service Reporting

This online free course will get the Participants learn how to identify and adapt emerging technologies; Twitter basics; Understanding and using social media; Reporting through crowdsourcing; Understanding and using mobile, SMS and location-aware services; Visual storytelling techniques; Mapping and mashups for beginners; Writing for the real-time Web; Online video production. The best 28 participants in the online course will then be invited to Cairo for a digital media “boot camp,” where they will have access to experts in technology, multimedia and online marketing who will help them create multimedia projects in public service journalism to illustrate the issues that affect ordinary people in their everyday lives

Training Type: Instructor-Led Online

Target Audience: Open to all journalists, citizen journalists and civil society actors from Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, West Bank/Gaza, and Yemen

Online Free Course in Building News Websites for Egyptian Citizen Journalists

This online free course will get the participants learn how to use free tools available for journalists to build news websites from scratch; how to manage the editorial agenda of a news website; adding multimedia content; building and promoting a news website domain; knowing the audience and much more. Successful graduates will receive a graduation certificates, issued by the International Center for Journalists. The best participants will receive seed funding to further develop their news websites.

Training Type: Instructor-Led Online

Target Audience: Open to all Egyptian citizen journalists

Online Free Course in Interfaith Conflict Resolution

This online free course is designed to enhance the peacemaking capacities of individuals and faith-based organizations by focusing on objectives, methods, and best practices of interfaith dialogue, a form of religious peacemaking increasingly recognized for its relevance to 21st Century conflict. The course applies general principles of faith-based peacemaking to two case studies, highlighting interfaith peacemaking efforts between Christians and Muslims in Nigeria, as well as the role that various faith communities played in helping to bring and end to the 36-year internal armed conflict in Guatemala.

Training Type: Self-Paced

Target Audience: Open to all interested

Online Free Course in Conflict Analysis

This online free course presents an introduction to the subject of conflict analysis, illustrating analytical tools used, with reference to two extended case studies, the conflict in Kosovo and the genocide in Rwanda. After completing this course, you will gain proficiency in the following skills:

• Classifying phases of conflict using the curve of conflict
• Identifying interventions appropriate to different phases of a conflict
• Analyzing the conflict in Kosovo and the genocide in Rwanda using terms and concepts from the curve of conflict
• Generating a thorough set of characteristics for describing conflict using an analytical framework
• Analyzing the conflict in Kosovo and the genocide in Rwanda using terms and concepts from the framework
• Analyzing unfamiliar conflicts using terms and concepts from the curve and framework

Online Free Course in Management of Electronic Documents

 

This online free course offers a series of lessons on electronic document management which introduce basic concepts and describe specific workflows and topics. The lessons include relevant resources and additional reading. Learners can also consult a glossary specific to the module and search within the course materials for specific terms.

Training Type: Self-Paced

Target Audience: It is targeted at a broad range of users who are, or will be, involved in the creation, management and dissemination of documents primarily in an electronic environment. The module is primarily targeted at users based in institutions for agricultural development, research, education and extension.

Online Free Course in Digitization and Digital Libraries

This course covers 31 lessons concerned with the creation of digital libraries and the preservation of materials in digital format. Also included are lessons covering copyright issues, electronic formats for text and images, metadata and subject indexing, as well as a comprehensive overview of the creation and management of digital documents.

Training Type: Self-Paced

Target Audience: It is targeted at Librarians and other information specialists who wish to master the required skills for creating and disseminating complete electronic documents and information system managers wishing to understand more about document preservation and the creation and dissemination of digital libraries.

Online Free Course in Building Electronic Communities and Networks

This online free course covers the approaches, methods, and tools used to build electronic communities, and covers the various steps and procedures for developing and facilitating electronic communities. The total curriculum consists of 29 lessons, ranging from approximately 15 to 90 minutes duration, grouped into five units, for a total of about 16 to 22 hours of self-paced instruction.

Training Type: Self-Paced

Target Audience: It is targeted at coordinators and facilitators of established or incipient communities, as well as groups of individuals with shared interests in agricultural and rural development. A wide range of potential beneficiaries in both existing communities and potential new communities include: network and community users; moderators of groups and communities; managers, policy makers and decision makers; academic, educational and training centres; and public and private sector agricultural extensionists and rural development facilitators.

Course in Touch Typing Skills

This online free course is a professional typing tutor that helps you to increase your typing speed and accuracy. It takes very little time to learn the basics of touch typing, allowing you to develop a skill that we help you for a lifetime! Save yourself hours of time and learn to touch type!

Training Type: Self-Paced

Target Audience: Open to all interested