Our massive open online courses (MOOCs) are free to study, fit flexibly around your schedule, and are designed by experts to help you learn new skills, pursue your interests, or advance your career.
With FutureLearn, you can access full courses for free or choose to upgrade for more benefits. You can also subscribe to ‘Unlimited’, giving you access to more courses and more time to complete them.
You can use FutureLearn to complete our courses anywhere in the world, so wherever you live or travel, you’ll have access to expertise from the University.
Our FutureLearn courses are flexible, which means you can choose when you study and fit your learning around your schedule.
You can choose from different start dates on many of our courses, or join a course after it’s started, letting you plan your time better so you get the most out of your course.
All our courses are between two and six weeks long and take up to three or four hours a week to complete.
Choose from a variety of different subject areas, including:
Improve your knowledge of healthcare and medicine, including how genes influence cancer development and new ways to organise health and social care services.
Understand how genetics influences the development and spread of cancer, with this free, introductory online course.
This course will run again in October 2020.
Explore new and better ways of organising health and social care services to improve quality with this free CPD-certified course.
You can join this course now.
Find out about the uses, impacts, and ethics of biosecurity, biosafety, special ops units, and private security firms.
Explore the impact and ethics of using drones, special ops units and private security firms, with this free online course.
You can join this course now.
Learn about biosecurity, biosafety and bioethics, and why they're vital - inside and outside of the lab.
You can join this course now.
Develop your understanding of good practice for educating children with autism, including developing an inclusive curriculum and finding the best technological resources.
Explore the benefits and challenges of the different schooling available to children with autism.
You can join this course now.
Discover how technology can be used to best support children and young adults with autism and intellectual disability (ID).
We’ll announce the next start date for this course when it’s available.
Learn how climate change, technology, and regulation are changing science and engineering.
Explore how trends such as climate change and technology are changing modern building design and how higher education can work with industry to help.
You can join this course to start on:
Find ways to improve your study skills and succeed in your EPQ or Welsh Baccalaureate.
Prepare for EPQ qualifications while developing skills to help you transition to university.
You can join this course to start:
Prepare for the Welsh Bacc Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate – Individual Project.
You can join this course now.
Learn key concepts and how to integrate them into the classroom.
A short course designed to help students and teachers understand the key scientific concepts of evolution, starting with genetics.
You can join this course to start on 6 July 2020.
If you’re a member of staff with an idea for a course topic and would like to produce a MOOC, please submit an initial proposal to the Centre for Learning & Teaching.
We will provide you with advice about producing your MOOC.
Learn more about our courses
Browse our courses on futurelearn.comIf you have any questions about our online courses on FutureLearn, contact the Technology Enhanced Learning team in the Centre for Learning & Teaching.