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If you’re looking to upskill or explore a new area without the commitment of a full degree, one of our free taster courses may be for you.

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Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)

Our MOOCs, delivered through Coursera, let you experience studying online to develop a personal interest, build on existing skills, or as a stepping stone to new career opportunities.

Some of these courses are also designed to prepare you for the flexible online degrees that we offer. You'll be introduced to the types of themes that appear in courses such as the BSc Computer Science and Global MBA.

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Business, Management and Marketing

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Brand Management

Gain a deeper understanding of the evolving practice of brand management, one that goes further than practised in most organisations today.

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Business Sustainability in the Circular Economy

This MOOC explores sustainability, you will learn how businesses and society can work to preserve our planet and develop new skills in research and analysis.

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Consumption, Marketing and Culture

This course prepares you for a more analytical understanding in the role that marketing activities play in shaping our consumer cultures and lives.

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Corporate Strategy

The course is designed for a broad audience but will be particularly relevant for those working in multi-business firms.

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Doing economics: Measuring climate change

In this online MOOC you will learn specific data handling skills in Excel and use techniques to analyse climate change data.

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Explore Management Concepts through Metaphor and Music

Explore how analysing music and metaphors can help us to better understand management, work organisations, working lives and ultimately, ourselves.

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Fundamentals of International Business

This course provides essential knowledge about international business, its key actors and recent trends.

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Fundamentals of Marketing Strategy

This course provides you with theoretical knowledge and insights into the practical implementation of an effective marketing strategy.

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How to Finance and Grow Your Startup – Without VC

This course is for you if you’re an entrepreneur at any stage of your journey.

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International Business Capstone

This course is part of the International Business Essentials specialisation and is designed to help you develop and build essential business skills.

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International Business Environment

Learners will develop a toolkit to apply in their own practice, by participating in discussion, quizzes, creative activities and mini masterclasses.

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International Business Essentials

This specialisation provides insight into the key professional skills needed by managers at all levels of an organisation.

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Management Skills for International Business

This course focuses on a range of management techniques, learn key skills necessary to succeed in international business, or in further study.

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Managing the Company of the Future

This MOOC provides both theoretical and practical perspectives on the nature of management in today’s organisations.

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Operations Systems Excellence

This course introduces the development of operational systems and how operating methods can help achieve corporate excellence.

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Professional Skills for International Business

Learn key skills such as how to make a positive first impression and skills necessary to succeed in international business, or in further study.

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Quantitative Foundations for International Business

This course provides the essential mathematics required to succeed in the finance and economics related modules of the Global MBA.

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Statistics for International Business

This course introduces core areas of statistics that will be useful in business and for several MBA modules.

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The Manager's Toolkit: A Practical Guide to Managing People at Work

In this MOOC you will engage with some HR theories and then see how they translate into every day working life.

Computing and Information Systems

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Building Interactive 3D Characters and Social VR

This course will enable you to create realistic social interactions in Virtual Reality (VR).

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Creative Programming for Digital Media and Mobile Apps

This MOOC is for anyone who would like to apply their technical skills to creative work ranging from video games to art installations to interactive music.

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Cyber Crime

In this online course you will learn about the types of cyber crime and understand the involvement of human behaviour.

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Cyber Security – Technology and Governance

This specialisation covers topics ranging from the security of computer system and networks to the key role of human aspects in cybercrime.

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Cyber Security Fundamentals

In this course you will learn the fundamentals of cyber security and how we can go about trying to improve the security properties of organisations.

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Foundations of Data Science: K-means Clustering in Python

This MOOC is designed to introduce students to the core concepts of data science and to prepare them for intermediate and advanced data science courses.

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How Computers Work

Learn some of the fundamental concepts of computer science that can be applied to to word processing applications, e-commerce and websites.

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Introduction to Applied Cryptography

In this course you will learn the fundamentals of cyber security and how we can go about trying to improve the security properties of organisations.

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Introduction to Computer Programming

This introductory course will provide you with the foundational skillset required to write computer programs.

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Introduction to computer science and programming specialisation

Create graphical programs, learn computing mathematics, develop mental models of computer systems by studying this specialisation.

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Introduction to computer security

Gain an introduction to computer system core components and functions, and also explore some of the vulnerability and threat issues in computer security.

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Introduction to Meteor.js Development

In this course you will learn how to create a complete, multi-user web site using the Meteor.js framework and MongoDB.

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Introduction to network security

In this MOOC you will develop an understanding of the design and security of computer communication, network technology, and the Internet.

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Introduction to Virtual Reality

This course will introduce you to Virtual Reality (VR). You will learn how to evaluate existing VR applications, and design, test, and implement VR experiences.

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Machine Learning for All

This MOOC will provide an understanding of the basic idea of machine learning, including a machine learning project on training a computer to recognise images.

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Making your first Virtual Reality Game

This course will take you through all of the steps you need to create a VR game or other project.

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Object Oriented Programming specialisation

A specialisation of five courses to provide you with the theoretical knowledge to build a crypto-currency exchange platform.

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Responsive Web Design

In this online course you will learn how to build an interactive website by applying responsive design concepts.

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Responsive Website Basics

In this online course you will learn three key website programming and design languages: HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

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Responsive Website Development and Design

This specialisation from the University of London will give you the skills needed to design and launch your own fully-functioning, responsive web application.

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Responsive Website Development and Design Capstone

Develop a complete website using the full range of skills learned during the specialisation and apply problem solutions.

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Responsive Website Tutorial and Examples

Learn to build exciting collaborative, interactive web applications that use various types of media including sound, images and big data.

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Security Management and Governance

In this course you will be exposed to two key components for effective security management.

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Use C++ to build a crypto trading platform I: User input

The first of five courses to help you to become confident working in the object-oriented paradigm in the C++ language.

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Use C++ to build a crypto trading platform II: Data

The second of five courses where you learn how to select appropriate data types to represent a dataset in a C++ program.

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Use C++ to build a crypto trading platform III: Functions

The third courses focuses on how to convert pseudocode algorithms involving iteration, logic, and string processing into working C++ code.

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Use C++ to build a crypto trading platform IV: Objects

In the fourth course you learn how to write functions that calculate basic statistics by iterating over vectors of objects.

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Use C++ to build a crypto trading platform V: Final system

In the fifth course you learn how to create a fully functional crypto-currency exchange application.

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Virtual Reality

This specialisation from the University of London will introduce you to virtual reality (VR), and is available on Coursera.

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Virtual Reality - 3D Interaction Design

Learn about the most important aspects of VR, the basic concepts and technologies of VR interaction design through creating your own project.

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Virtual Reality - 3D Models

Learn the basics of 3D graphics and how to lay them out to create your environment using the professional game and VR engine Unity3D.

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Web Application Development

In this online course you will develop more advanced web application programming skills.

Humanities, Social Sciences, Development

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Applied Public History

Learners will develop a toolkit to apply in their own practice, by participating in discussion, quizzes, creative activities and mini masterclasses.

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Global Diplomacy – Diplomacy in the Modern World

This MOOC brings together cutting edge research in the broad fields of Diplomatic and International studies and successful MOOC delivery.

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Global Diplomacy: the United Nations in the World

Once you enroll for a Certificate, you’ll have access to all videos, quizzes, and programming assignments (if applicable).

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Global Energy and Climate Policy

This MOOC is aimed broadly at people interested in learning more about interconnected issues in energy and climate policy globally.

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Internal Displacement, Conflict and Protection

Gain insight into the phenomenon of internal displacement, a major humanitarian and development challenge in today’s world

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Introduction to Who Wrote Shakespeare

Explore the Shakespeare authorship question with this exciting new MOOC.

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Magna Carta and its Legacies

This course examines the roles that Magna Carta has played historically as well as the importance of Magna Carta today.

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Refugees in the 21st Century

With this online course, gain insight into the refugee phenomenon as one of the most complex, compelling and misunderstood features of the 21st century.

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The Camera Never Lies

This course is a short taster on the topic of the use of images and film, and their use in historical interpretation in the 20th century.

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Understanding Research Methods

This MOOC will appeal to those of you who require an understanding of research approaches and skills, and importantly an ability to deploy them in your studies.

Teaching and Learning in Education

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Get Interactive: Practical Teaching with Technology

Each week we will focus on a topic: Using multimedia for teaching and learning | Encouraging student collaboration | Formative assessment and feedback.

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