OpenLearn Courses

Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online

18 reviews

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 ...

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• 24 hours
• On-Demand
• Free Certificate

Learning to teach: mentoring and tutoring student teachers

12 reviews

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 ...

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• 5 hours
• On-Demand
• Free Certificate

Information security

11 reviews

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...

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• 10 hours
• On-Demand
• Free Certificate

IT in everyday life

11 reviews

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 ...

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• 4 hours
• On-Demand
• Free Certificate

Forensic science and fingerprints

11 reviews

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 ...

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• 10 hours
• On-Demand
• Free Certificate

Step up to leadership

9 reviews

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 ...

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• 4 hours
• On-Demand
• Free Certificate

Developing your skills as an HR professional

9 reviews

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 ...

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• 9 hours
• On-Demand
• Free Certificate

Sure, I know how to talk to people!

8 reviews

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

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• 4 hours
• On-Demand
• Free Certificate

Project governance and Project Management Office (PMO)

8 reviews

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 ...

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• 7 hours
• On-Demand
• Free Certificate

Public health approaches to infectious disease

8 reviews

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 ...

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• 3 hours
• On-Demand
• Free Certificate

Microbes – friend or foe?

8 reviews

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 ...

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• 2 hours
• On-Demand
• Free Certificate

Energy resources: solar energy

7 reviews

Energy from sources other than fossil and nuclear fuels is to a large extent free of the concerns about environmental effects and renewability that characterize those two sources. Each alternative ...

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• 2 hours
• On-Demand
• Free Certificate

Introduction to child psychology

7 reviews

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 ...

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• 8 hours
• On-Demand
• Free Certificate

Supply chain sustainability

7 reviews

To survive in today’s competitive environment, organisations need not only have an efficient and effective supply chain for the context in which they operate, they also have to consider issues of ...

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• 8 hours
• On-Demand
• Free Certificate

Drug development process: combating pain

6 reviews

Drug development process: combating pain, is a free course offering a brief introduction to the process of new drug discovery; from identification of a suitable candidate drug molecule to the ...

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• 2 hours
• On-Demand
• Free Certificate