The Open University Courses

Introduction to Cyber Security

22 ratings

Our lives depend on online services. Gain essential cyber security knowledge and skills, to help protect your digital life.

• FutureLearn
• 8 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Start Writing Fiction

21 ratings

Get started with your own fiction writing, focusing on the central skill of creating characters, with this hands-on course.

• FutureLearn
• 8 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Forensic Psychology: Witness Investigation

19 ratings

Discover how psychology can help obtain evidence from eyewitnesses in police investigations and prevent miscarriages of justice.

• FutureLearn
• 8 weeks
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online

19 ratings

This free course, Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online, will help you to understand online security and start to protect your digital life, whether at home or work. You will learn how ...

• OpenLearn
• 24 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Information security

18 ratings

Information security underpins the commercial viability and profitability of enterprises of all sizes and the effectiveness of public sector organisations. This free course begins by explaining why...

• OpenLearn
• 10 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

IT in everyday life

16 ratings

We now live in a global village where distance is no longer a barrier to commercial or social contact. This free course, IT in everyday life, will enable you to gain an understanding of the ...

• OpenLearn
• 4 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Public health approaches to infectious disease

14 ratings

This free course, Public health approaches to infectious disease, reviews the current global burden of infectious disease, the public health strategies that are reducing the impact of some major ...

• OpenLearn
• 3 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Learning to teach: mentoring and tutoring student teachers

12 ratings

This is the second of four courses which comprise the course Learning to teach. Traditionally student teachers are supported by a mentor in school and a tutor from a university. Both play ...

• OpenLearn
• 5 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

The importance of interpersonal skills

12 ratings

To succeed in management you need good interpersonal skills, you need to understand how to deal with other people. This free course, The importance of interpersonal skills, will help you gain an ...

• OpenLearn
• 3 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Developing your skills as an HR professional

12 ratings

This free course, Developing your skills as an HR professional, will help you to develop some of the skills you will need to be effective as an HR professional. You will practise learning ...

• OpenLearn
• 9 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Project governance and Project Management Office (PMO)

11 ratings

Whether a project is large or small, innovative or similar to other projects, governance and administrative support will be needed. The type of governance, and level of support, will vary ...

• OpenLearn
• 7 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Forensic science and fingerprints

11 ratings

This free course, Forensic science and fingerprints, covers how science can make fingerprints easier to study, how they are used in court and some of the questions about the extent to which ...

• OpenLearn
• 10 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Step up to leadership

10 ratings

This free course is one in a series focusing on leadership, decision-making and communication in the context of policing with the community.  This particular course focuses on the challenge of ...

• OpenLearn
• 4 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Introduction to child psychology

10 ratings

Childhood is a time of rapid growth and development, and studying these changes is endlessly stimulating. In this free course, Introduction to child psychology, you will be introduced to the ...

• OpenLearn
• 8 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Microbes – friend or foe?

10 ratings

Microbes often get a bad name. Whilst some of them do cause disease, others play vital roles in recycling nutrients in the soil to enable plants to grow, and in breaking down human waste. Without ...

• OpenLearn
• 2 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate