E-LEARNING

ARTS THREAD has partnered with online training experts Skills Online Group and is proud to offer the group's outstanding e-learning packages at a discounted price. Created to help designers with the practical skills needed for a career in the 21st century creative industry, we are currently able to offer three e-learning packages: Set Up and Manage your own Creative Biz, Learn SEO and Go Freelance!

Try the first 4 modules of Go Freelance! Online Training course for free and get an ARTS THREAD discount of £15 off the price of each of the three courses.

"Online training and education is a natural extension of the ARTS THREAD proposition to the design industry. We're thrilled to partner with ARTS THREAD to provide these valuable services to their membership base and we look forward to providing value-for-money online training that help graduates learn new skills and ultimately make them more employable" says Fraser Black, Managing Director of Skills Online Group.

SET UP AND MANAGE YOUR OWN CREATIVE BIZ & LEARN SEO - INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Register on the site first. www.skillsonlinegroup.com/users/register
2. Select Business Skills>Set Up and Manage your own Creative Biz or e-Marketing Skills>Learn SEO in the Course Library, select ‘enrol now’ and proceed to checkout.
3. Use the discount code at_discount1 at the checkout to get the £15 discount on the course

GO FREELANCE! - INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Register on the site first. www.skillsonlinegroup.com/users/register
2. Select Business Skills> Go Freelance! Course PROMO in the Course Library, select ‘enrol now’ and proceed to checkout.
3. Use the discount voucher at_promo1  to ‘purchase’ the PROMO course in the checkout. The voucher offers 100% discount on the published price (£75) but locks the remaining 11 modules. Please make sure that you select ‘PAY BY BANK TRANSFER’ in the checkout process
4. The modules are manually released once the orders come through onto the Skills Online Group system. Once released, you can find the PROMO Course in the ‘My Courses’ section of your logged in profile. It won’t be there unless Skills Online Group has received your order and released the modules to you.
5. If you would like to purchase the remaining 11 modules, you only need to click on the button reading ‘purchase remaining modules’ in the course module list and you will be directed to the checkout where you can pay the £60 (a discount of £15 on £75 course price). Once the payment has been received, Skills Online Group will manually unlock the remaining 11 modules in the system and you can finish the course and receive your Certificate of Completion. 

Coming Up in 2011 from Skills Online Group

Internet Marketing courses in development

Skills Online Group has partnered with a leading internet marketing training company from the US and is busy developing Practitioner Certification Courses in SEO, PPC, SOCIAL MEDIA, WEB ANALYTICS, CONVERSION, INTERNET MARKETING FUNDAMENTALS & ONLINE PR. These courses will be available early in 2011 and are considered industry-leading online training for Internet Marketing.

All Access Subscription

Skills Online Group will be offering an ALL ACCESS ONLINE TRAINING SUBSCRIPTION that will allow unrestricted access to more than 155 training courses containing more than 880 hours of training videos. All major design IT and software will be included in this simple monthly subscription. The subscription will be launched in Feb 2011 and offer unrestricted, best-in-class video training tutorials for as little as £16 per month!