Online courses

Explore the exciting subjects within life sciences and the rewarding careers that studying life sciences at university lead to.

A short course designed to help students prepare for EPQ qualifications

Take your online business from ideation to implementation with one of four courses in the Online Business Success program.

Explore the role of robots and autonomous systems in the factories, homes, hospitals, schools and cars of our near future.

Learn to speak, write and understand basic Dutch, with this free, three-week, introductory foreign language course.

Explore the environmental and biological factors that influence our appetite and food choices, and regulate our body weight.

Learn how to be professionally involved in teaching, support and governing of higher education institutions.

This course will enhance the knowledge of any person involved in the administration of medicines to patients with dysphagia.

Understand the basics of Islamic and Arabic calligraphy and develop your calligraphy skills.

Learn the basics of speaking and writing in the Malay language and find out about Malaysian culture.

Interested in starting a business? This course will help you define your vision and discover opportunities to make it happen.

Discover the human abdomen and how it works.

Find out how understanding and targeting your market can help your business stand out from the crowd.

Explore the origins of the current data explosion and learn the implications on fraud and fraud detection.

Learn how to build and sustain your network to enhance your professional relationships and open up career opportunities.

Explore how and why market segmentation can be used to improve business performance.

This course explores household assets (investments and property) and liabilities (debts) and examines how these should be managed.

Building a satisfying career is a lifelong process. Use this course to take the first step and start university on the front foot.

Learn the basic science needed for humans to survive on Mars, with this online science course.

Explore how antibiotic use in farming contributes towards resistant bacteria in our food chain. What can we do about this issue?

Explore the UK financial services landscape, how financial firms and their products are regulated and how consumers are protected.

Become an effective online learner and develop your online communication skills when working with others.

Get the most out of online learning by reflecting and sharing your learning with others.

Reflect on how you want to present yourself online and take positive steps towards these goals.

Improve your online research skills and your ability to critically analyse sources of information.

Learn about Meyerhold’s form of physical theatre, biomechanics, and understand and perform ‘The Slap’.

Find out how working with people and exploring networks can help you take your business to the next level.

Understand how business works and performance can be improved so that you can take your business forward and manage growth.

This hands-on course introduces you to science-based skills through simple and exciting physics, chemistry and biology experiments

Learn the fundamentals of Parkinson's disease with this online course. What causes it and what we can do to treat it?

Learn how innovation has changed the food industry, the way we shop and how we manage the global issue of food waste.

Find out how forecasting and managing your finances can lead to a profitable and sustainable business.

Raising funds in an important when starting a business; find out which source of funding is most suitable for your business idea.

Learn how to grow a sustainable social enterprise in this free online course from Middlesex University Business School.

Find out how and why you should engage patients and communities in the development of new healthcare technology and treatments.

Explore the use of medicines in treating cancer and take your first steps towards becoming a science writer.

What science discoveries will you choose to write about?

It’s well known that good early nutrition is vital to the development, health and wellbeing of children, but what does this mean?

Learn the theory and practice of concurrent programming in Erlang, through practical exercises and suggested projects.

Learn how to manage supply chains effectively in the digital era.

Learn how process mining can be used to turn healthcare data into valuable insights to improve patient care while reducing costs.

This course will explore academic integrity and how you can demonstrate it in your work, study and research at university.

Understand what innovation means and consider the history and developments of innovations that are important in our daily lives.

Understand how big fashion retailers innovate and discover the story behind a favourite piece of your clothing.

Discover just some of the ways that heroism and the First World War is portrayed through art and film.

Gain the basic skills to manage all phases of project lifecycles effectively, using the most appropriate methods and tools.

Encontrando los apoyos tecnológicos más adecuados para alumnado con autismo y/o discapacidad intelectual.

Explore the role that the Royal Air Force played in the Cold War through the collections of the RAF Museums at Hendon and Cosford.

Get an introduction to the growing role of genomics in healthcare, for patient diagnoses, treatment and disease prevention.

Explore why the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude is one of the 20th century’s leading writers in this free online course

Discover big data: work with airline data to learn the fundamentals of the R platform.

Explorar por qué el autor de Cien años de Soledad es uno de los escritores más importantes del siglo XX.

Learn about theories of learning and teaching in the first course of the Foundations of University Learning and Teaching program.

Find out how new drugs and treatments are assessed before being introduced.

This course explains how you can use numbers to describe the natural world and make sense of everything from atoms to oceans.

Understand what makes message persuasive and learn how to develop more persuasive messaging for PR, marketing and advertising.

Find out how parents and caregivers influence children’s minds, from conception through infancy, with this online course.

Understand the basic thermodynamic principles widely used in many engineering fields: temperature, free energy and entropy.

Discover the incredible world of 'the Hobbit' as modern archaeological science uncovers secrets hidden in time.

Develop a business plan and build a team with one of two courses in the Management and Leadership program.

Get underneath the skin of a novel by understanding some of the main building blocks of modern fiction.

What does it mean to learn in a networked world? Find out, and discover how to make use of your own personal learning network.

Explore and solve encrypted maths puzzles, in which numbers are replaced by letters or symbols, with this free online course.

Understand the importance of process thinking today. Improve organisational performance through business process management (BPM).

Explore the half of our world covered by deep ocean, and how our lives affect the hidden face of our planet.

Find out how to use data science to deliver better outcomes for your students. Join this free online course from AACTE.

Learn how to use Point Prevalence Surveys (PPS) to measure antibiotic consumption and fight antimicrobial resistance.

Discover the science behind the Zika outbreak to understand how it is spread and can be controlled.

Explore what’s involved when musicians create a performance from musical notation in this free online course.

Learn how developments in genomics are transforming our knowledge and treatment of conditions such as diabetes.

Discover ways to make education more inclusive, especially in areas where resources are limited.

This free online course will explore the impact of compassionate care, for both practitioners and users of health and social care.

The British Empire continues to cause enormous disagreement among historians. Find out why and join the debate.

This course by BSAC is for healthcare professionals managing infections. You will learn about Gram Negative Bacteria.

Understand UK music copyright law and how it applies to you as a creator, producer, marketer, distributor or licensee of music.

Leadership is a term often used, and often misunderstood. Learn what being a leader means and how you can practice leadership.

Explore the causes of limited transparency in social science research, and tools to make your own work more open and reproducible.

Get an introduction to histology – the study of anatomy at a microscopic level – and use histopathology to identify disease.

Thinking about a career change? Identify your key strengths and professionals skills, and learn how to sell them and yourself.

Explore the factors that influence property values and house prices with this online course.

How does gender relate to international and community development? Find out with this online course.

Design, build and program a simple robot and share it with other learners.

Learn how to use the free, open source process mining framework (ProM) to analyse, visualise, and improve processes based on data.

Become a more informed digital citizen and engage with debate about what is appropriate in the modern world of social media

Find out how to make the most of your time at university and ensure you have the skills and experience graduate employers want.

This course for learners of English helps you with the language you need to find a job and successfully function in the workplace.

Develop your time management skills and discover time management strategies to ensure every project you manage runs smoothly.

Learn how the Greenland ice sheet is monitored from space and the ground, to understand our past, present and future climate.

Learn about the skills you need for IELTS Academic on this free course from Cambridge English, the producers of the test.

This free three week course provides the tools you need to succeed at interviews and land your dream job or course place.

An introduction to modern analytical science techniques and how they can be used to uncover food fraud.

Discover the history of humanitarian aid and the principles and values that underpin it.

Develop your knowledge of UK education, the UK as a study destination and the benefits of Study UK.

Understand how new technologies can make supply chains more sustainable and learn how to deal with today's trends.

Learn what teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL) involves. Explore the opportunities to teach English abroad or at home.

Develop the academic language and study skills you need to learn in English at university.

Explore how the web has changed our world and what the future might hold, with this free online course introducing Web Science.

Learn about the role of data in a range of disciplines and about some fundamental tools for extracting knowledge from data.

Get an introduction to nutritional science. Explore the biology, chemistry and physics of food and how our bodies digest it.

Explore the organic chemistry behind perfume, medicine, brewing and sport from one of the UK's leading universities

Develop your understanding of genealogy. Uncover your ancestors’ past and create a meaningful family history or family tree.

Learn how Patient Reported Outcome Measures and Quality Adjusted Life Years can compare treatments and inform healthcare spending.

In this sixth Italian for Beginners course, learn to book holiday accommodation and order a meal.

Explore the fascinating work of philosopher Ramon Llull and its impact with this free online course

Learn how to turn your social enterprise ideas into action in this free online course from Middlesex University Business School.

Discover how very young children learn English as an additional language and how you can help them progress.

Get an introduction to geology. Discover where materials that make up everyday objects come from and how to use them sustainably.

Explore perioperative medicine and how you can improve care for the high risk surgical patient. Join this RCoA endorsed course.

Learn how to ask for directions, shop for clothes, and order food and drinks in the sixth Spanish for Beginners course.

Uncover new perspectives on the role and behaviour of your customers.

Understand where public health has come from, why it looks the way it does today and where it might go next.

How can technology make you healthy? Learn about the design, application, implementation and evaluation of eHealth.

Explore the impact of biochemistry on bioenergy and health, discovering why graduates are in demand; with the Biochemical Society.

Undertaking an Extended Project Qualification, IB extended essay or any other scholarly research? This guides you step-by-step.

What do we know and what are we discovering about the form and function of the human brain? Find out with this online course.

Learn how to develop a funding strategy for your business; explore different types of finance and learn when, and how, to use them

With household budgets feeling the pinch this course shows how to bring order to your finances and make good financial decisions.

Learn about the role of clinical bioinformaticians in healthcare and how their work is helping to realise the genomics revolution.

Discover how biomaterials and 3D printing collide, to create revolutionary, bioprinted body parts, with this free online course.

Gain a practical grounding in communication to boost your personal effectiveness, save you time and reduce your stress levels.

Explore the links between investment theory and practice. Examine investment strategies and performance. How do experts manage?

Equip yourself to teach in international contexts by increasing your English language skills and intercultural knowledge.

Gain the skills to manage your personal finances: managing budgets, debts, investments, property purchase, pensions and insurance.

Discover who made your clothes, share their stories, and find out how you can influence global change.

Learn how to design your activities to engage customers through relationships instead of a one-off sale.

Learn to build relationships and manage contracts successfully with this free online course backed by UK government and IACCM.

Understand the importance of copyright and learn its history, from the Renaissance to the Internet, with this free online course.

Understand and explore the physical processes behind the weather

Discover the science behind targeted cancer treatments that are changing the landscape of patient care on this free online course

Consider the latest data, priorities and debates about the health of mothers, children and adolescents in this free online course.

This free three week course will help you produce a perfect CV, application and online profile when applying for a job or course.

Learn the basics of project planning and management so you can run effective projects at work or in daily life.

How can you manage challenging behaviour in young people? Find out with this free online course featuring the latest research.

Discover the varying uses of social media around the world and its consequences for politics, relationships and everyday life.

This course is designed to enhance the supervision skills of clinical and educational supervisors of trainee doctors.

Get an introduction to museum studies with this free online course. Learn about the people and ideas that shape museums today

Learn how a psychological understanding of our emotions and behaviour gives us new ways to improve mental health and well-being.

Explore whether cultural, institutional and environmental differences can be overcome to create a more cooperative world.

Discover the relationship between history, financial crises and business cycles, with this free online course.

Learn how to use film in the classroom, teach literacy and improve both reading and writing skills, with this free online course

Improve your logical and critical thinking skills in this free online course. Identify common obstacles to effective thinking.

Enhance your practice and subject knowledge as a primary or secondary school teacher of Computing.

Explore the intriguing world of film production and find out about the complexities of development, distribution and finance.

Explores the new reproductive technologies, the opportunities they provide, and the profound social challenges they pose.

Explore the foundations of successful management with this free online course from The Open University and CMI.

Study Language and Literature in Italian and develop the skills you need to take part in a European student mobility program.

Discover what healthcare was like in ancient Greece and the Roman world with this free online course.

1 in 2 people will develop cancer in their lifetime. At Cancer Research UK we want to get people talking about cancer & health.

Find out how to stay ethical, compliant and professional in the construction industry, with this free online course from the CIOB.

Improve your understanding of depression and anxiety and find out more about an effective and evidence-based treatment: CBT

Develop the language skills you need to study in English and make the most of European student mobility programmes

Explore the role of the state in regulating criminal behaviour and the parts played by those in the criminal justice system.

Get an introduction to the language and culture of Korea, with this online Korean course from Hanyang University in Seoul.

Join us to explore how the vast amounts of data generated today can help us understand and even predict how humans behave.

Get an introduction to the biology, epidemiology and evolution of the influenza virus in this free online course.

Learn how to balance your books and develop the skills to manage finances in personal and business environments.