Providing over 150 high-quality interactive multimedia certified courses in a diverse range of subjects, the number of ALISON learners is set to grow exponentially over the next year, as more people are looking to skill themselves up in order to avail of opportunities that arise.

ALISON provides interactive multimedia courses for subjects as diverse as IT literacy, English language, financial literacy, math, business skills, and health and safety for schools. It serves both adult and second-level learners. Since the beginning of 2007, ALISON has acquired learners in every country worldwide. Its mission is to enable people everywhere to educate themselves for free via the Internet.

An example of an ALISON course is ABC IT, which is the most popular IT-skills certification. It includes comprehensive training on the Internet, key desktop applications like Word and Excel, as well as the full range of practical IT skills, including touch typing and the efficient use of web-based e-mail. It is prefaced by a beginner's guide to a personal computer, making it ideal for learners who have no IT experience.

For certification, ALISON uses a highly innovative approach of Flash-based testing, where people can be challenged to take a five-minute test to validate their certification attainment via ALISON. In this way, both training and testing are provided free of charge. ALISON is a social enterprise and sustains itself on advertising, premium charges, and content-development fees.

CEO Mike Feerick says, "My mission at ALISON has been to find a way to get quality interactive learning material to anyone who needs it worldwide for free - in a sustainable and scalable manner. Education providers and policy makers need to take note that ALISON is not just about providing a massive savings opportunities in these times of budget cutbacks. It also offers the promise of a new, heretofore untold horizon of education access and potential learning achievement that will change our world."