Futurelearn

Futurelearn is an award-winning digital education platform launched in 2012 and based in the UK. The company has over 12 top university partners, including Princeton, Yale, and The University of Amsterdam. Its courses cover various topics, from Artificial Intelligence to Philosophy to Global History. Futurelearn also offers micro-credentials accredited by its partner universities on topics like Digital Leadership and STEM teaching. Futurelearn is founded on the belief that learning can be inspiring and accessible to everyone. It strives to create a global community of learners through its online platform, which provides high-quality educational materials in videos, texts, quizzes, articles, and discussions.
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Futurelearn
Placemaking and Public Space Design: Unlocking Design Potential

Use climate analysis to create better public spacesWhen it comes to designing successful urban spaces, which work for both tourists and residents, analysing and understanding the influence of climate is crucial. This three-week course will...

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  • Flexible deadline
  • 3 hours
Explore and Understand the Gaming Industry

Explore the gaming landscape and how your brand fits into itIn the vast industry of gaming, the options are seemingly endless, but the risk of a wrong move is potentially disastrous. On this three-week course...

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  • Flexible deadline
  • 3 hours
How to Create Everlasting Experiences Through Gaming

Explore worldbuilding to engage your audienceBuilding a world that hooks people in, ignites their imagination, and thrills their senses takes time, techniques and brilliant storytelling. On this three-week course from D&AD, you’ll learn to use...

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  • Flexible deadline
  • 3 hours
How to Understand the Gaming Audience

Cultivate active and engaged audiences for your brandWhile the audience sits at the heart of any successful communication, the community you build is what supercharges gaming. Often called the new social media, this medium is...

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  • Flexible deadline
  • 3 hours
An Introduction to the Nordoff Robbins approach to Music Therapy
4.88

Understand a person-centred approach to music therapyThis introductory six-week course will help you explore music therapy through the Nordoff Robbins person-centred approach. You’ll gain an understanding of how music therapy works today, and how th...

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  • Flexible deadline
  • 6 hours
Placemaking and Public Space Design: Unlocking Tourist Destinations
4

Discover placemaking, place shaping, and what makes an attractive tourist spaceWhat is it that makes a tourist hotspot hot? When it comes to developing sustainable, attractive, and exciting tourist destinations, high quality public spaces are...

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  • Flexible deadline
  • 3 hours
Healthy House Plants: A Complete Guide to Gardening Indoors
4.72

Discover how to make any room beautiful with these indoor gardening tipsHouse plants can help make any indoor space more beautiful. Growing and taking care of house plants can also offer mood-boosting benefits. This course...

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  • Flexible deadline
  • 4 hours
Stylistics: Using Linguistics to Explore Texts and Meaning
4.81

Uncover the real meaning behind the words you read and hear with stylisticsStylistics is the study of linguistic style in texts. It helps to explain how politicians mislead; how novelists and poets move their readers;...

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  • Flexible deadline
  • 4 hours
Sustainable Fashion Ecologies: Sustainable Practices Across the Fashion Ecosystem
4.8

Expand your understanding of sustainable practicesFashion ecology examines the interconnectedness of garments, people, and the environment. It explores how different components of the fashion industry are linked together in often complex relationshi...

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  • Flexible deadline
  • 3 hours
Dementia and the Arts: Sharing Practice, Developing Understanding and Enhancing Lives
4.78

Understand how the arts can improve the lives of people with dementiaCreating a society that supports people living with a dementia is a major challenge - and opportunity. On this course you will discover how...

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  • Flexible deadline
  • 4 hours
A History of Royal Fashion
4.85

Enter the world of British royal fashion and discover its rich history A History of Royal Fashion welcomes you on a 5-week journey into the wardrobes of British kings and queens. Your fashion history exploration...

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  • Flexible deadline
  • 5 hours
Introduction to Production Design for Film and Screen
4.84

Production Design is at the heart of making memorable screen stories. This course provides a basic understanding of the role of the Production Designer on feature films, short films, TV, live action, animation or game...

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  • Flexible deadline
  • 3 hours
Introduction to 3D Animation using Blender
4.18

Unleash your creativity with 3D modelling and animation3D animation is everywhere; in games, movies, commercials, and the industry is growing exponentially. It’s also more accessible now, with tools and training available to everyone, like the...

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  • Flexible deadline
  • 10 hours
Fibre, Fermentation & the Gut with BBC Good Food

Discover tips to help improve your gut health dietGut health is so much more than nutrition. Studies have shown that the bacteria in our GI tract is also linked to the immune system, chronic illnesses,...

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  • Flexible deadline
  • 3 hours
Healthy Cooking Made Easy with BBC Good Food
4.75

Learn how to create nutritious meals and master 5 healthy recipes in 5 weeksDo you want to cook healthy and delicious meals from scratch that make you feel good too? This course will take you...

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  • Flexible deadline
  • 5 hours
Healthy Vegan Cooking with BBC Good Food
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Discover healthy vegan recipesWhether it’s for ethics, the planet, or your health, there are many reasons why you might want to follow a vegan diet or simply introduce more vegan meals into your life. On...

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  • Flexible deadline
  • 4 hours
Special Diets: Cooking for Allergies and Intolerances with BBC Good Food
3

Explore the basic principles of food safetyWhether you’re experiencing an allergy or intolerance, or you’re cooking for someone with special dietary requirements, this five-week course will take you through the basics of safely preparing meals...

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  • Flexible deadline
  • 4 hours
Sweet Tooth: Understanding Sugar and the Body with BBC Good Food

Understand how high sugar intake can impact health and wellbeingHigh sugar consumption affects not only your weight but your energy and mind. However, it can be difficult to navigate the different types of sugar and...

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  • Flexible deadline
  • 4 hours
Video Game Design and Development: A Bit-by-Bit History of Video Game Music: Video Game Sound and Music
4.26

Chart the history of video game music, bit by bitFrom early arcade games to modern open-world adventures, video game soundtracks have made an indelible mark on our culture. On this course, you’ll get an introduction...

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  • Flexible deadline
  • 2 hours
Visualizing Women's Work: Using Art Media for Social Justice
3

Discover the historical erasure of women’s work through social justice artPublic art has often ignored the work and legacy of minorities and women, but recently there has been a welcome reappraisal of publicly displayed visual...

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  • Flexible deadline
  • 4 hours