Evernote: Cloud Storage for Lecture Notes

“I have interesting notes about that topic. But I should look for my copybook, I don’t remember where it is… Wait, did I throw it away?”, “I created a Word Document for lecture notes, but I didn’t save that…” I have heard these for plenty of times. This issue simply can be solved by a cloud storage, so that we can have access to our notes anytime and anywhere. Evernote can be a great solution for everyone: Windows, Android, IOS, and Linux users.

On your convenience, you can use the application or the web-service. You need to create an account and sign in. Then you will have to choose which type of account you want to use:

1. Evernote Basic – a free service, has limited features: max. 60 MB of data each month, max. 25 MB each note
2. Evernote Premium – $7.99/month, max. 10 GB monthly uploads, max. 200 MB note size, sync across devices is unlimited
3. Evernote Business – $14.99/month, max. 24 GB of data each month, max. 200 MB note size, sync across devices is unlimited.

Evernote gives you an opportunity to systemize your notes by creating notebooks. Here is an example:

The other advantage of Evernote is that it offers templates for lecture notes, essays, project plan, to do list, etc. Here’s the lecture note template:

The service offers plenty of tools you can be familiar with after creating an account. Using Evernote helps me a lot to systemize my knowledge. I hope you will enjoy it, as well.

External links:

https://www.evernote.com/Login.action?targetUrl=%2Fclient%2Fweb%3Flogin%3Dtrue

Too busy to acquire new skills?

Unfortunately, nowadays formal education (see the external links below) may not provide the students with usable skills. In order to get new qualifications, many people apply to non-credit courses, programs, seminars, etc. These may be really great for increasing skills and knowledge, and getting new competencies. But there are many individuals who simply cannot afford themselves non-formal learning because of their being too busy. In this case, online learning sources could be great. So, let me present the online sources I am familiar with.

• EdX is founded by Harvard and MIT. You can find there plenty of courses not only by Harvard and MIT, but by the University of California, Berkeley, The University of Texas System, Australian National University and other many prestigious universities as well. And, as for the costs: although edX is considered a non-profit source, but still the ones who want to get their certificates, have to pay.
• Futurelearn is my favorite source. It provides with courses by British Council, King’s College in London, Johns Hopkins University, Paris Fashion School, Institute of Coding, Monash University, Accenture (a consulting company), University of Michigan. You can find here many free certification courses. Also, you have an opportunity to introduce yourself and have conversations with other people.
• Coursera is founded by  Stanford University‘s computer science professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller in 2012. It cooperates with MIT, Georgia Institute of Technology, John Hopkins University, University of Alberta, etc. Coursera gives you an opportunity to mention what kind of new skills you want to obtain, in which area you see your career development. It may provide you with plenty of free courses as well.
• Udemy was founded in 2009-2010 by E. Bali, G. Biyani, O. Caglar. The courses are available in English, French, Spanish, Turkish, Portuguese, and German. Most of the courses cost $8-15. The source gives an opportunity of becoming an online teacher to specialists (the teachers are paid via PayPal or Payoneer). The majority of the courses are uploaded by specialists (individuals). By the way, one of the advantages of Udemy which should me mentioned, is that it offers an application for smartphones (iOS, Android).

There are other sources for online learning as well. I would be glad to read some information about them in the comments bellow. I hope, my article was useful for the ones who want to increase their skills. You can check out the external links below.

External links:

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_learning
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonformal_learning
3. https://www.edx.org/
4. https://www.youtube.com/user/EdXOnline
5. https://www.futurelearn.com/
6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=103&v=aEyjRmCV6ck&feature=emb_logo
7. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3i5AS_kCaFppoMwULYb99g
8. https://www.coursera.org/?authMode=login
9. https://www.youtube.com/user/coursera
10. https://www.udemy.com/
11. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzw4hbQIePVtyJQzE_F8QDg
12. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udemy#Overview
13. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coursera
14. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EdX
15. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FutureLearn