FEMA Emergency Management Institute — Independent Study Program Free
COST: Free (federal programme; FEMA publishes no price on the IS pages — the $0 is unstated at source, VERIFY before printing it). A large self-paced online catalog — for example IS-100.c, Introduction to the Incident Command System, carries 0.2 CEUs — open to "the professional and volunteer emergency management community, and the general public," with downloadable completion certificates. A FEMA Student Identification Number (SID) has been required since 1 April 2015. The common misunderstanding, and FEMA states it outright: transcripts issued by the Independent Study Program "do NOT reflect college credits." These are IACET CEUs, which other bodies may accept toward licence renewal at their discretion — that is not the same thing as college credit.
✓ Courses "are evaluated and awarded Continuing Education Units (CEUs) in accordance with the standards established by the International Association of Continuing Education and Training (IACET)"; ICS/NIMS courses are effectively mandatory across U.S. emergency response