Top 6 FREE Sustainable and Ethical Online Fashion Courses.
By Emma Golley 03.30.2021
Sustainability, ethical trade and responsible design are ever evolving topics, with new technologies, fabrications and movements appearing every week. Whether you’re a student, graduate or seasoned professional it’s never too late to broaden your knowledge in these areas.
We’ve handpicked 6 online fashion courses we recommend to help you learn more and create positive change- and better yet, they’re FREE! Who doesn’t like free learning?!
Hot off the press, this course just landed on the Future Learn website! If you’re looking to start your own Sustainable brand or carve out a career in sustainability and entrepreneurship then this course is for you.
During this 11 week course (roughly 4 hours per week), new and experienced fashion professionals will learn with the prestigious Institut Français de la Mode. Covering everything including business strategy, sustainable fashion strategy, entrepreneurship in fashion, fashion culture, brand identity, branding, collection construction and innovation.
Join for free and take advantage of their 7 day free trial before subscribing to unlimited courses for $39 per month (hurry there’s currently a 30% discount until April 1st) All courses can be completed within your own time.
Also new to the Future Learn websites is Fashion Values: Nature brought to you by London College of Fashion.
The main objective of the course is to “understand biodiversity in the context of fashion and create a plan for fashion that protects our earth’s systems.”
This 4 week course (3 hours per week) is part of a new portfolio of courses from Centre for Sustainable Fashion called ‘Fashion Values’.
During the course, you will learn:
Fashion, Biosphere and Biodiversity
Fashion’s Response
What will we do for Nature?
The course is completely free and starts April 11th, register now!
For those of you wondering ‘can fashion really be sustainable’ this course may be for you. Coursera brings you ‘Sustainable fashion’ a course by the Copenhagen Business School.
The course provides an overview of business model theory and discusses business models as essential tools in the transformation towards more sustainable businesses. You will study how real fashion brands are adopting more sustainable ways of doing business and examine their efforts as well as considering strategies for your own brand or organisation.
By the end of the course, you will understand the many challenges and possible solutions for businesses to become more sustainable which can be applied to your career.
Discover who made your clothes and find out how you can influence global change with the University of Exeter and Fashion Revolution.
During the course, you will:
Learn how to influence the fashion industry so that it values people, the environment, creativity, and profit in equal measure
Gain knowledge and practical skills for thinking about our global economy and who makes our clothes
Be encouraged to consider yourself as an active global citizen who can enable change
Finish the course new found knowledge that can spread to others.
This Free course is 3 weeks long, you can sign up to register your interest to join via this link.
Brought to you by London College of Fashion and supported by luxury fashion group Kering. Available via Future Learn.
This 6 week online course gives you an introduction to issues, agendas and contexts relating to fashion and sustainability in a changing world. What’s more, it’s FREE - providing you complete the course within the allotted timeframe.
See below for a more detailed timeline:
Week 1 - Why Sustainability in Fashion?
Week 2 - Contextualising Sustainability for a Changing World
Week 3 - Material Dimensions: Sourcing for luxury fashion
Week 4 - Informed Decision Making: Tools and methods
Week 5 - Creative Possibilities
Week 6 - Creative Realisation
Fashion Revolution’s 4 week FREE course is available via the Future Learn website.
Throughout the course you’ll learn about the fashion industry’s impact on people and planet, what the Sustainable Development Goals are, and how they are linked to the clothes we wear.
You’ll also be learning more about fair trade and ethical trade as well as global fashion supply chains. Not only is this information so useful and beneficial to learn in general, it could really take you to the next level in your learning whether that’s at College or in the Fashion Industry!
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