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Young People and Their Mental Health

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University of Cambridge, Cambridge , University of Groningen, Groningen via Futurelearn
Certificate

Young People and Their Mental Health

Mental health problems are rising these days, and we are often concerned about finding the right solutions for improving mental health. To ease this concern a bit, jointly the University of Groningen, the University of Cambridge, and the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) developed the Young People and Their Mental Health certification course. Students can locate this 5 weeks course on the FutureLearn website where this provider is responsible for granting certifications.

Young People and Their Mental Health certification syllabus contain ways in which young people can be taught to identify why, and how mental problems arise, what are the most common ones that they face, and how one should overcome these problems effectively. Students must know that this short course has been made a part of the Psychology & mental health department of FutureLearn.

Young People and Their Mental Health training are mostly designed for the young minds out there. Problems like fear, anxiety and depression often start developing when children are teenagers. Every 1 out of the 5 kids suffers from these mental issues. This online course will educate these young ones to deal with these issues once the symptoms start to show.

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5 Weeks
Free
Skills Covered:
Knowledge of Psychology
Why we Post the Anthropology of Social Media

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Why We Post: the Anthropology of Social Media

Why We Post: the Anthropology of Social Media certification is a 5 weeks online course that is free, and has been developed by FutureLearn in partnership with UCL (University College London). This certification course is dependent on the work done by 9 Anthropologists who had spent 15 months in the different field sites of Chile, Brazil, England, India, Trinidad, Turkey, and more.

With the Why We Post: the Anthropology of Social Media certification syllabus, candidates can discover a new meaning of Social Media Marketing which is not based on how capable the platform is but is focused on the posted content. This will help the participants why memes, photos, and selfies are important for communication.

Why We Post: the Anthropology of Social Media training for 3 hours every week will explain what impact social media has on education, Political Science, gender equality, privacy, Commerce, etc. Also, social media has different roles to play while in different regions, and participants will be able to know that by using an anthropological and comparative approach.

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5 Weeks
Free
Skills Covered:
Knowledge of Anthropology
Certificate

Demystifying Targeted Cancer Treatments

The way cancer is treated these days is changing so with these 5 weeks of Demystifying Targeted Cancer Treatments certification especially the Nurses researching on the clinical cancer treatment can get benefited. One of the world’s leading cancer charities, Cancer Research UK has crafted the certification course along with FuTureLearn who has been appointed for providing the achievement certificates.

The Demystifying Targeted Cancer Treatments certification syllabus contains fresh content on immune therapies including concepts like CAR T cells, PARP inhibitors, checkpoint inhibitors, and more. This Healthcare and Medicine course also takes into account different quizzes, articles, and interviews of real patients to help candidates learn about the evolving treatments. 

Demystifying Targeted Cancer Treatments training changes the way cancer is perceived, and hence providing a new ray of hope for every patient suffering from cancer. So candidates can learn, and share their experience and knowledge acquired with the world by studying for just 3 hours a week.

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5 Weeks
Free
Skills Covered:
Knowledge of healthcare sciences
Key Ideas in Mentoring Mathematics Teachers

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Key Ideas in Mentoring Mathematics Teachers

Key Ideas in Mentoring Mathematics Teachers certification is a 5 weeks short online course that is led by the educators of UCL (University College London), and FutureLearn for supporting maths teachers who are less experienced. By devoting nearly 4 hours a week, candidates can become mentors of these mathematics teachers.

Key Ideas in Mentoring Mathematics Teachers' certification syllabus offers live sessions involving course discussions that can help in boosting one’s own knowledge of the Mathematics subject. This kind of knowledge can be used for teaching secondary school students, and also apply new research techniques to the practice of teaching.

Key Ideas in Mentoring Mathematics Teachers' training focuses on promoting teaching and even learning maths like generalisation, reasoning and proof and abstraction, and also some conceptual structures with the help of digital technologies. With this course as mentor candidates will be using personal experience for reflecting on the further developments while sharing the expertise with the new maths Teachers.

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Teaching And Academics Certification Courses

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5 Weeks
Free
Skills Covered:
Teaching skills
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Discovering Your PhD Potential: Writing a Research Proposal

This 5 weeks Discovering Your PhD. Potential: Writing a Research Proposal certification is a programme that is 100% online and is made jointly by the efforts of the University of Leicester and also FutureLearn. With this course, participants will be learning about the entire process involved in doing research to write the best postgraduate application proposal for postgraduate applications.

Discovering Your PhD. Potential: Writing a Research Proposal certification syllabus inculcates students on why a carefully curated research proposal is important for doctoral studies and can be the first step towards a postgraduate study. The course has a special focus on Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts, but the content can cater to all disciplines.

Discovering Your PhD. Potential: Writing a Research Proposal training gives you the confidence to build up the tools, and skills for writing a well-premeditated research proposal, that actually helps in the betterment of the postgraduate application. Agin this course will also provide a taste of the self-study that is a must for all participating in doctoral research.

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Teaching And Education Certification Courses

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5 Weeks
Free
Skills Covered:
Writing skills

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University of Padua, Padua via Futurelearn
Certificate

Precalculus: the Mathematics of Numbers, Functions and Equations

Precalculus: the Mathematics of Numbers, Functions and Equations certification is the first amongst 2 courses that are prepared by the University of Padova in cooperation with FutureLearn. The main purpose of this programme is to provide students with introductory mathematical skills that are required for completing their first-ever course in calculus. The online category of courses that this particular one falls under is Science, maths, and Engineering.

With the Precalculus: the Mathematics of Numbers, Functions, and Equations certification syllabus, candidates are supposed to learn the fundamentals necessary for undergraduate or college students. The topics are all related to Mathematics which include sets and set operations, factoring and division, functions and graphs, reasoning and proofs, and also inequality.

Precalculus: the Mathematics of Numbers, Functions, and Equations training is online for a time of just 5 whole weeks where only 6 hours weekly classes will be taught. With this precalculus course, candidates will gain foundational skills for supporting mathematical studies so that it can be beneficial for using Maths in everyday life.

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5 Weeks
Free
Skills Covered:
Mathematical skill
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Supercomputing

A 5 weeks Supercomputing certification course that is supervised by the University of Edinburgh, Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE), SURFsara, and the certification is distributed by FutureLearn. This course covers all the aspects which are technical and are conceptually covered. Supercomputers give Scientists and Engineers an extremely powerful tool for studying the natural world for computer simulation.

With no prior requirement of being able to write computer programs, this weekly Supercomputing certification syllabus is powered by EPCC. Spread over 5 weeks the curriculum covers topics like supercomputers, parallel computers, parallel computing, computer simulation, and also case studies.

Falling under the Information Technology and Computer Science batch of courses, the Supercomputing training teaches how virtual environments can be prepared using supercomputers. This training will offer how one can look real inside of atoms individually so that future climates can be studied, and evolution can follow the full universe from the big bang.

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5 Weeks
Free

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KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm , EIT via Futurelearn
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Transforming Urban Mobility: Governing the Transformation to Sustainable Systems

Sustainable mobility is the number one goal for city planners because of climate change and population issues. The Transforming Urban Mobility online course revolves around urban mobility and how it can be aligned with sustainability. You will be introduced to a sustainable urban mobility plan and strategy (SUMPS) that takes the stakeholders' interests into account. Sustainable cities are the future, and sustainability planning is the need of the hour. 

Furthermore, the Transforming Urban Mobility certification syllabus includes sustainable transport planning, sustainable urban development, transformation management, long-term planning, technology assessment and more. The programme is designed to be 100% online and self-paced to make it more accessible. 

In addition, FutureLearn’s Transforming Urban Mobility certification will run for five weeks, and you can join the course for free. The programme has been developed by EIT RawMaterials, KTH Executive School, and KTH Royal Institute of Technology. It will take you a weekly effort of 4 hours to finish the course. You must upgrade the course and complete the series of tests to access the printed and digital certificate.

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5 Weeks
Free
Skills Covered:
Knowledge of Urban Planning
Certificate

Prison Health: Managing Outbreaks of Tuberculosis in Prisons

Tuberculosis (TB) is a transmissible disease and can prove deadly if left uncured. In a confined setting such as a prison, the inhabitants are a particularly vulnerable group. The Prison Health online programme by FutureLearn is a five-week-long course that tells you about the significance of addressing TB in prisons.

This Prison Health certification course lets you explore the considerations for effectively managing a TB outbreak in prison. You will also study how its mismanagement can cause drug resistance. During this curriculum, you will learn how to enhance your ability to identify TB symptoms and signs. 

Developed by Public Health England, FutureLearn’s Prison Health training course has the CPD certification service’s accreditation. The programme includes a mix of video lectures, audio, short and long-form articles, and practical activities to deepen your understanding. You can also earn a printable and digital certificate of achievement after fulfilling specific criteria. 

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5 Weeks
Expert
Free
Skills Covered:
Knowledge of epidemiology
Certificate

Marketing Analytics

Organizations have access to a tremendous amount of data about customers and their preferences, buying behaviour, etc. But having access to all this data is of no use if marketers and decision-makers do not know how to interpret it and use it to justify and inform their decisions. The Marketing Analytics online course by Future Learn will teach you how to do just that. 

The Marketing Analytics online course will equip you with the tools you need to measure the efficiency of your customer and brand assets; calculate customer lifetime value; interpret regression analysis; and design experiments as a means to optimize and evaluate marketing campaigns.

The Marketing Analytics programme will benefit aspiring marketing professionals, and even practising marketing professionals who want to develop a career portfolio, grow their knowledge, and increase the effectiveness of their marketing campaigns. But anyone interested in learning the basics of marketing analytics will find this course useful.

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5 Weeks
Intermediate
Free
Skills Covered:
Marketing skills Brand Management
Managing Big Data with R and Hadoop

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Managing Big Data With R and Hadoop

The Managing Big Data With R and Hadoop training is a five-week training programme offered by the FutureLearn portal in association with the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE). In this course, candidates will learn about statistical learning, the use of Linux with Hadoop, and how to manage data using different tools and techniques such as R, Hadoop, and R Studio. Also, learners will learn to use the big data Hadoop tool to manage and analyse big data for the organisation or client.  

Managing Big Data With R and Hadoop online course will be taught by Janez Povh, Biljsna Mileva Boshkoska, and Leon Kos using the English language as a medium of teaching. This course is designed for people who are interested in learning about data science, computational statistics, and machine learning. To apply for this course, students will have to visit the official website of the provider and register for the Managing Big Data With R and Hadoop online course. As for the complete information about this course, please go through the article given below.

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5 Weeks
Intermediate
Free
Skills Covered:
Data science knowledge Knowledge of Big Data Machine learning Knowledge of Linux
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People Management Skills

The course on ‘People Management Skills’ is offered by the online educational platform FutureLearn for a period of five weeks and three study hours every week. This course is developed by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) to improve the business and management expertise of the leaders.

The People Management Skills online course helps managers exercise their role with improved confidence and preparation as successful leaders. This course provides insights into the various kinds of leadership and management, organising skills, and adaptive techniques. 

Specific human resource and management concepts like labour market, recruitment process, team development and successful coaching, conflict management, and well-being in a workplace are discussed during the training. The course instruction engages with performance management aspects like the high-performing team and setting team performance goals through practical strategies.

Learning with Andy Lancaster (learning and development head in CIPD), Michelle Parry-Slater(L&D Consultancy owner), Jo Squires (Learning and development content producer at CIPD) and Robin Lawrence(leadership and management developing specialist) will help the candidates acquire valuable knowledge of the domain.

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5 Weeks
Intermediate
Free
Skills Covered:
Human Resource Management Business Management Managerial skill Leadership Innovative Teamwork Mental Agility
Transforming Urban Mobility Components of Transport Planning for Sustainable Cities

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Transforming Urban Mobility: Components of Transport Planning for Sustainable Cities

The Transforming Urban Mobility: Components of Transport Planning for Sustainable Cities online course is provided by FutureLearn and is developed by the University College London, GIZ (a serving agency that helps the German government) and the Transforming Urban Mobility Initiative (TUMI). 

This online programme delves into strategies to develop sustainable cities like the Avoid-Shift-Improve framework which includes important elements of ‘Shift’ and ‘Improve’. It helps the candidates understand the significance of alternative public transport options which reduce environmental pollution. The course instruction describes the components of urban mobility like traffic demand management and the role of public transports. 

The online trainees will be able to decode the aspects of active mobility and streetscape designing while identifying the role of vehicle technologies in environmental effects. The practical methodologies and case analyses will enable the learners to comprehend the productive decision-making process and the participatory impact on the sustainability of cities.

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5 Weeks
Expert
Free
Skills Covered:
Decision making skills Knowledge of Environmental Science Knowledge of Urban Planning Knowledge of engineering
Revolutionising the Food Chain with Technology

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Revolutionising the Food Chain with Technology

The Revolutionising the Food Chain with Technology online course is offered by the online educational platform FutureLearn and is accredited by the CPD Certification service. The online programme of 5 weeks is developed by the EIT Food, the Queen’s University Belfast, and the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), and is scheduled for five weeks with four hours of study every week.

This online certification programme deals with the role of data-enabled technologies that impact the revolution in the food business to make the food supply establishments efficient to counter the challenges like population, climate change, and hunger. The course is about transforming the food systems to contribute to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. 

The learning in the course helps us understand the development of global food security inclusive of innovation and technologies in order to accomplish productivity and food sustainability to feed the growing population in the world. 

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5 Weeks
Beginner
Free
Skills Covered:
Knowledge of Food Technology Knowledge of nutrition Quality control Knowledge of Agricultural practices Business sense Knowledge of Environmental Science
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Foundations of Science for Undergraduate Degrees

The ‘Foundations of Science for Undergraduate Degrees’ online course is a foundational course to prepare you for higher education in science and related fields. This course helps the students to develop their knowledge of the concepts and principles of sciences as a foundation for the university curriculum. The online program is provided by the online educational platform FutureLearn and is developed by the University of Nottingham. 

The course duration is scheduled for five weeks and the students can spend four hours every week to complete the program. Field experts from Nottingham University such as Vicki Onions (teaching associate), Amir Choudhary(teaching associate), and Samantha Millward (digital innovation and media officer) will guide the students through the course. 

The students of the ‘Foundations of Science for Undergraduate Degrees’ training program will receive a theoretical learning experience and benefits such as progress tracking and the certificate of achievement by FutureLearn after course completion.

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5 Weeks
Beginner
Free
Skills Covered:
Knowledge of science Knowledge of Chemistry Knowledge of Biology Knowledge of Microbiology
Developing and Testing Complex Healthcare Interventions

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University of Bergen, Bergen via Futurelearn
Examining African Contributions to Global Health

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University of Basel, Basel via Futurelearn
Certificate

Train the Healthcare Trainer

5 Weeks
Free
Black Performance as Social Protest

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Black Performance as Social Protest

5 Weeks
Free

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UCM Madrid via Futurelearn
A History of Royal Fashion

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University of Glasgow, Glasgow , Historic Royal Palaces via Futurelearn
Certificate

A History of Royal Fashion

5 Weeks
Free
Eliminating Trachoma

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Eliminating Trachoma

5 Weeks
Free
Entrepreneurship in Nonprofits

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University of Basel, Basel via Futurelearn
Certificate

Entrepreneurship in Nonprofits

5 Weeks
Free

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