Future Learn (Open University)
Future Learn offers a diverse selection of courses from leading universities and cultural institutions from around the world. These are delivered one step at a time, and are accessible on mobile, tablet and desktop, so you can fit learning around your life. Future Learn is a private company jointly owned by The Open University and The SEEK Group. The Open University have 50 years of experience in distance learning and online education.
Using Future Learn
Pick a course
Browse our course list to find something that you’d like to learn about. We have courses in a diverse range of subjects and are always adding more. Courses vary in length. Most are six to ten weeks long but we also have some shorter two and three week courses.
Perhaps you might want to invite a friend to take part with you? You can do this via email and social media when you join.
Learn for free, upgrade, or buy Unlimited
You can choose how you learn on our online short courses. Here’s the difference between learning for free, upgrading, and buying Unlimited:
- Free:
- Access to the course for its duration + 14 days, regardless of when you join.
- Upgrade:
- Access to the course for as long as it exists on FutureLearn.
- Access to course tests if there are any.
- A printed and digital Certificate of Achievement or Statement of Participation when you’re eligible.
- Unlimited:
- Access to your choice of hundreds of online short courses and tests for a year.
- A printable digital Certificate of Achievement on all short courses once you’re eligible.
- The freedom to keep the content of any of the courses you’ve gained a digital Certificate of Achievement on.
- The flexibility to complete your short courses in your own time within a year.
At present, it offers the following courses relating to covid: https://www.futurelearn.com/search?q=covid
Future Learn. Milton Keynes, The Open University, 2020, online.
English / Europe / United Kingdom