If you are looking to bring your skills into more current practice, learn a new programming language, or just experiment with taking a couple of technical classes, you are living in the best of times. There are a lot of free classes taught by some of the best teachers in the world to choose from today. This education goes by “Massively open online courses” or MOOCs, and we have covered the topic most recently here in a story about “nanodegrees” or specific training regimens.

But how do you go about getting this training? How can you figure out what skills are important and pick the right MOOC? As we mentioned in this article last year, “Taking a MOOC in a technical topic can help, according to employers. The caveat: People need projects that show hiring managers how they’ve used the tech skills they learned online.” Typically, most online classes have a final project requirement, but certainly you should check this before signing up.

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