Learn New Skills w/ Online Classes AND Get Over $90 Off | Sign Language, Business, Nutrition & More

Learn a new skill on your own time with online classes!

International Open Academy offers over 200 highly-rated online classes ranging from arts & crafts, dog training, cooking, learning sign language, and so much more. Whether you’re looking to master a new craft, work on your home cooking skills, wanting to earn some extra income on the side, or itching to add something extra to your resume, they have courses to help you master a new skill!

You’ll be able to take these International Open Academy courses on your own time, and you have up to 12 months to complete these online classes.

Even better, for a limited time, head over to International Open Academy where you can score up to 86% off online classes when you use promo code IOA4HIP2SAVE at checkout. If you’re in need of a Father’s Day gift, consider enrolling him in a class for a hobby he’s always talked about starting!

One of our Hip Sidekicks took an online class and was happy she did!

Check out some of the courses you can take…

Learn about furniture restoration, where to find pieces to restore and so much more in this course! Plus, you can fix items up for yourself or learn how to flip them for a profit.

I’d been binge-watching The Society with Sean Berdy who is a Deaf actor playing Sam, a Deaf teenager. He’s cool and made signing look cool too. So I decided to try it for myself. I found the American Sign Language online and got a special deal with International Open Academy. I was nervous at first and scared of getting the signs wrong. But there are around 70 videos in the course to watch and practice signs. This made it easier to get started and I felt sure I was signing correctly. 

I love that American Sign Language is super-expressive. You use body movements and facial expressions as well as your hands. I feel it’s made me more confident in communicating with everyone. I tend to wave my hands around a lot more when I talk. I’d love to bump into Sean and strike up a conversation with him. – Student Quote

Discover the various processes involved in generating a profile as well as learn about the theories behind investigating criminals. Study famous case studies like Jack the Ripper & Charles Manson while exploring forensic science, criminology theories, and more.

Save money, boost your health, and live a greener lifestyle by learning how to grow, dry, and store your own herbs with this online class. You’ll also get recipes to make various tinctures, salves, balms, tonics, and teas! This course will help you to understand what your body needs and better your health by introducing alternative treatments into your everyday life.

Whether you’re decorating your own home or starting a business, this course will help you develop a creative process, learn about home styling, and more. Plus, if you are starting or running a business, there are even tips for that!

Learn professional makeup artistry with this course and put it to use as a side job or to advance your own skills. You’ll learn about picking colors, skin tones, skincare routines, and so much more.

Learn about making natural soaps without the use of chemicals or additives! This course has simple step-by-step instructions and access to over 28 different types of soap recipes. Plus, all of the soaps are made with simple ingredients and you’ll even be able to recycle the supplies you use to make them. This would be such a neat class to take and then gift your soaps to friends and family!

I’d gotten a new job and the boss asked me to prepare some charts to show peak times and troughs at our gyms. He told me to put it on a spreadsheet for his presentation. I didn’t know where to begin! I had a couple of weeks to get the data and make it look presentable. I spent my weekends and commute time learning Excel Spreadsheets with IOA. Thankfully the course is broken down into small sections so I could learn the bits I really needed first. 

Bottom line, my boss was stoked with my work and asked me to prepare more spreadsheets for accounts and presentations. Gulp! I took out a year’s subscription to the Excel Training course so I can keep referring to it while I work on the figures. Maybe I should ask for a raise, lol! – Student Quote

Create gorgeous Instagram-worthy cakes and baked goods with this fun online class! It goes over everything you need to get started, how to make delicious buttercream icing, working with fondant, decorating, and more. There are even tips for transporting and displaying your cakes.

I love creating stuff and trying to sell it online. Mostly I make jewelry and paint watercolors but I also take a zillion photos which friends said I should sell online too. They all said I should use Instagram to get people to notice my stuff. So I started putting some photos on Instagram. Nothing happened. I found this Instagram for Business course and signed up. I went through the modules in order and started putting into practice what I learned as I learned it. I learned how important it was to comment on other people’s posts. Before I just posted random stuff and had no idea if people were seeing it or taking any notice of little ol’ me on Instagram. 

This course showed me how to track reach rate, engagement rate, and most importantly, how much traffic was directed to my website from Instagram. I soon learned what posts people were liking and so I could give them more of the same. – Student Quote

You’ll be able to customize your clothing for the perfect fit after taking this tailoring course! Even better, it’s taught by Stylish Dad who has been teaching dads for years how to stitch, customize the fit of their shirts and even save money!

Create a healthy eating regime, learn about foods that help promote healthy skin and hair and so much more! This class covers a wide variety of topics with eight modules. Plus, it covers a few different diet types including vegan, vegetarian, and meat diets while also discussing sugar, detoxing, when to eat, and more.

I help out in the office of my parent’s business. They were getting more orders and needed to take on extra staff. None of us had any experience with interviewing people – we tended to go with our gut instinct a lot. I took the HR & Payroll Management course to understand employees’ rights and managing the payroll – things like holidays, medical insurance, pension plans. I’ve now put a system in place to keep records of our four new employees.

The course was a real eye-opener as I never realized how many different aspects there are to HR. Thanks to this course, we set up a training program to develop our staff and also an Induction Day to introduce them to our company and ourselves. We always end up with a big barbecue in the yard to break the ice. I wouldn’t have thought of these things without the help of this course. – Student Quote