Is alison website real!

Hi guys,
I was thinking to study at Free Online Courses, Workplace Skills Training, Interactive Education and Multimedia Learning | ALISON but I need an advice please ethier it's real website or fake. Are alison certificates approved by USA Eduction Department or not!

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ALISON courses are "real" in the sense that you can learn useful things, and if you complete them they will send you a certificate of some sort (I think you need to pay for the cert). They are not however accredited. Their page on accreditation is here:

ALISON Help / Are ALISON courses accredited/recognised?

They state explicitly that "In an effort to keep programme costs down and to retain the current motivational-based format of ALISON, ALISON has not sought to be nor been approved by the US DOE, CHEA or DETC provider and does not represent itself to be an “accredited” programme of any of these organisations."

Of course, since they don't offer degrees, there's no requirement that ALISON seek accreditation. The (perceived) value of the courses/certs will probably vary quite widely. Personally if I listed an ALISON cert on a resume I'd note somehow that it was done for personal learning or somesuch notation to signify it was not earned from an accredited institution.

In the future, you can check whether any institution is accredited by USDE here:
Search Institutional Accreditation System