Monroe Free Library offers free continuing education on its Web site

Monroe — Monroe Free Library is partnering with Recorded Books, LLC to introduce Universal Class Library Edition, a powerful online continuing education service designed for use by library patrons. Universal Class offers hundreds of courses in dozens of areas of study, including accounting, exercise and fitness, entrepreneurship, arts and music, home and garden care, cooking, computers and technology, health and medicine, home schooling, job assistance, law and legal, parenting and family, and pet and animal care. Patrons ready to check out Universal Class, or who want more details, can visit www.monroefreelibrary.org/class. “We chose Recorded Books as a partner because Universal Class provides a broad selection of classes and the highest quality online training,” Library Director Marilyn McIntosh said in the press release announcing the program. “There are real instructors guiding video-based lessons.” Certificates of achievement and Continuing Education Units are available for selected courses. Students receive a measurable learning experience that helps them master, and document, their educational goals. Universal Class, Inc., a subsidiary of Recorded Books, is an education technology company that provides online services to schools, corporations, organizations, educators, and students throughout the world. It aims to advance intellectual exchange in teaching, research, and service with its technology and belief that education should be affordable to all people of all cultures. More than 300,000 students around the world have benefited from Universal Class’ instructional technologies. Online continuing education course available through Monroe Free LibraryAccounting Alternative medicine Arts and photography Business Career training Computers and technology Cooking Crafts and hobbies Entrepreneurship Finance GED training General education Health and medicine History Home and garden Home schooling How to / do it yourself Language arts Law/legal/criminal Mathematics Medical billing New age Office skills Parenting and family Performing arts Personal care Pet and animal care Psychology Real estate Reference Religious studies Science Self-help Social work Special education Spiritual studies Test preparation Web development Writing skills