The Open University Courses

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Sustainable Business Strategy for Future Leaders

Equips professionals with skills to develop sustainable business strategies, driving innovation and creating positive change across various industries and organizational roles.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 5 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Thinking about sustainable business systemically

Examine global circular economy initiatives using systems thinking and mapping to understand complex dynamics, identify leverage points, and develop sustainable business interventions.

• Coursera
• 12 hours 2 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Understanding the need for a sustainable business

Discover sustainable business features for success. Explore critical global issues, UN SDGs, and innovative problem-solving approaches. Gain insights on implementing sustainability and engaging stakeholders for positive change.

• Coursera
• 9 hours 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

From prototyping to validating business models

Discover sustainable business value through prototyping and validation. Appraise stakeholder value, assess impact, develop a comprehensive model, and learn effective pitching techniques for sustainable concepts.

• Coursera
• 12 hours 24 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Critical thinking for sustainable business solutions

Discover innovative thinking techniques to generate and refine sustainable business solutions, applying critical reflection to avoid biases and ensure positive impact on complex systemic challenges.

• Coursera
• 10 hours 39 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Discovering chemistry

5 ratings

Chemistry lies at the centre of our modern life, playing a part in areas as diverse as the development of new drugs and materials, analysing our environment through to more mundane activities such ...

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

Fundamentals of accounting

5 ratings

Learn about the essential numerical and double-entry skills required for accounting. This free course, Fundamentals of accounting, will explain the fundamental purpose and role of accounting as ...

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

Understanding operations management

5 ratings

Operations management is one of the central functions of all organisations. This free course, Understanding operations management, will provide you with a basic framework for understanding this ...

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

International relations: exploring territorial divisions

5 ratings

Explore territorial divisions in international relations, examining global conflicts, geopolitics, and imperial rivalries. Uncover the origins of modern borders and their impact on world affairs.

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

Digital forensics

5 ratings

Digital evidence features in just about every part of our personal and business lives. Legal and business decisions hinge on having timely data about what people have actually done. This free ...

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

Critical criminology and the social sciences

5 ratings

This free course, Critical criminology and the social sciences, will provide you with an insight into some of the main disciplines within the social sciences, focusing in particular on critical ...

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

An introduction to electronics

5 ratings

Electronics is fundamental to modern life. Using an interactive website, videos, and easy-to-use electronic circuit design and simulation software, this free course, An introduction to electronics,...

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

Exploring issues in women's health

5 ratings

This free course, Exploring issues in women's health, will introduce social model approaches to health and wellbeing, which take as their starting point not the scientific context of the body, but ...

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

Language and creativity

21 ratings at OpenLearn

This free course is an introduction to the relationship between language and creativity, to the roles that linguistic creativity plays in culture and society, and to the different approaches to its...

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

Collective leadership

25 ratings at OpenLearn

This free course, Collective leadership, will give you an insight into the importance of how to be a more effective leader, and how to better engage and work with ‘followers’ in an organisational ...

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