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Principles of Service Management

5 Weeks
Intermediate
Free
Certificate

Sustainable Construction and Development

The Sustainable Construction and Development certification, a 5 weeks online course on sustainability in construction is by Chartered Institute of Building Academy, and London South Bank University. This Business and Management course is found on the provider platform of FutureLearn with which people from all sectors, especially construction can improve their understanding of sustainability.

The development of sustainability can be met by doing proper activities that don’t compromise the ability of the upcoming generations for meeting their own needs. The Sustainable Construction and Development certification syllabus deals with actions, and tasks that have an important role to play in sustainability initiatives.

Environmental, social, and even economical sustainability are the 3 factors affecting construction sustainability, so learning about the ideal, and best possible practices is very important. This Sustainable Construction and Development training is conducted for a very short period of time that makes the candidates understand the issues in achieving future sustainability. In the construction sector.

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5 Weeks
Beginner
Free
Skills Covered:
Knowledge of Economics
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
Construction Ethics and Compliance

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Construction Ethics and Compliance

The Construction Ethics and Compliance certification is a 5 weeks course that is curated by the joint efforts of FutureLearn, and the Chartered Institute of Building Academy. This course falls under the Business, and Management category, and The CPD Certification Services gives accreditation to it. 

There are many large construction firms that have faced innumerable fines for breaching ethics due to cases of bribery, and collusion. This CIOB Construction Ethics and Compliance training tell the candidates how they can stay ethical in construction industries. Ethics is nothing but a moral set of values that define a person’s character and behavior so it is important for both the individual and the organization.

This free online course is owned by CIOB which is the world's largest construction management professional body since the year 1834. So, the construction Ethics and Compliance certification syllabus is the guiding light for students who want to understand what role is played by compliance in the construction industry.

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5 Weeks
Beginner
Free
Skills Covered:
Business Management
Certificate

Food for Thought: The Relationship Between Food, Gut and Brain

Food for Thought: The Relationship Between Food, Gut and Brain certification is a course that focuses on weekly classes of 4 hours that is held for only 5 short weeks. This course will find the interlinking between the brains’ effects on food choices

Food for Thought: The Relationship Between Food, Gut and Brain certification syllabus shows us the importance of the link between gut and brain in terms of food choices. The course will teach how exactly the human brain functions and how it gets affected by deficiencies of nutrition, and improper diet. 

Food for Thought: The Relationship Between Food, Gut and Brain training will help find out the complexity of the relationship between food, and the reproductive system, and between gut, and brain.

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5 Weeks
Free
Skills Covered:
Knowledge of Psychology
TARGET Antibiotics-Prescribing in Primary Care

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TARGET Antibiotics – Prescribing in Primary Care

TARGET Antibiotics – Prescribing in Primary Care certification course is a course awarded by the FutureLearn provider who has associated with TARGET, and BSAC for the content related to the course. This Oral Medicine course will reap benefits for optimising antibiotic prescription in primary care to deal with antimicrobial resistance that has become an alarming problem in recent years.

TARGET Antibiotics – Prescribing in Primary Care certification syllabus will teach the art of tackling this issue so that all the healthcare providers are at par with the methods. The content covers everything from the prescription of antibiotic doses to patients with UTI, and at the same time matching up to the requirements of these patients.

TARGET Antibiotics – Prescribing in Primary Care training is an accredited course where accreditation is successfully conferred by the Royal College of Pathologists.  

In the end, the candidates can help themselves make their antibiotic practice better by practically applying antimicrobial stewardship.

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5 Weeks
Intermediate
Free
Skills Covered:
Knowledge of Pharmaceuticals
Young People and Their Mental Health

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

Young People and 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
Beginner
Free
Skills Covered:
Knowledge of Psychology
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
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
Eliminating Trachoma

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Eliminating Trachoma

5 Weeks
Beginner
Free
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
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
Black Performance as Social Protest

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Black Performance as Social Protest

5 Weeks
Free
Certificate

Professional Development for Early Career Teachers

Professional Development for Early Career Teachers certification is a 100% online course that is provided on the FutureLearn platform by The University of East Anglia. The course can teach the Teachers to enrich their teaching practices, and also assist them in managing their workload.

The starting of any career can be really tedious since people are overburdened with new challenges, and responsibilities daily. The same can be when teachers start their professional career. The Professional Development for Early Career Teachers certification syllabus will support the participants in ways for the betterment of their teaching skills and also balance out their load of work so that they are able to handle the upcoming challenges smoothly.

For the Professional Development for Early Career Teachers training, the applicants out of 24 hours only give 3 hours in a week at a stretch for 5 weeks to complete going through this course. The programme just contains 5 modules which are explained through short videos and audios that make the learning experience smoother.

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5 Weeks
Intermediate
Free
Skills Covered:
Teaching skills
Certificate

Train the Healthcare Trainer

5 Weeks
Intermediate
Free
Certificate

Animal Feed Production: Feed Quality

The course Animal Feed Production: Feed Quality by Future Learn is here to help us to know what is the best way of feeding animals, what all can be fed, and how to feed them. A good diet will make animals healthier and yield more productivity eventually leading to more profits. 

This course will help a candidate to learn different types of animal feed Production, learn regulatory requirements, come across different issues that affect the quality of feed, learn about hazard analysis critical control points, adulteration in food quality, and touch many more areas associated with animal feed Production. 

The course enlightens the candidates about the feed production discipline and the right knowledge about livestock production. This 5 weeks course requires a weekly study of around 4 hours giving the candidates exhaustive and elaborative knowledge about animal feed regulation, production, and quality assurance of the same. The course also gives its candidates the flexibility to learn at their own pace and time.

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5 Weeks
Free
Skills Covered:
Quality control
Certificate

Caregiving Dementia and Incontinence

This Caregiving, Dementia, and Incontinence training is a five weeks online course. This online course was designed and offered through Deakin University and NARI and delivered through the FutureLearn platform. The instructors for the Caregiving, Dementia, and Incontinence online course are Elizabeth (Liz) Watt, Jessica Cecil, and Joan Ostaszkiewicz.

Through the Caregiving, Dementia, and Incontinence certification, you will investigate the biological functions of the bowel and bladder, as well as the effects of ageing and dementia on continence, and identify warning signs for when medical attention is required. You will also be able to develop sensitive support strategies based on a scientific understanding of this knowledge. 

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5 Weeks
Free
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Building Alliances in Global Health From Global Institutions to Local Communities

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Building Alliances in Global Health: From Global Institutions to Local Communities

This Building Alliances in Global Health: From Global Institutions to Local Communities training is a five-week online course. The course syllabus was developed and offered by Johns Hopkins University and STRIPE via the FutureLearn platform. The instructors for this online course are Olakunle Alonge, Svea Closser, Anna Kalbarczyk, and Angelica Lopez Hernandez.

The Building Alliances in Global Health: From Global Institutions to Local Communities online course will enable you to face the challenges of forming alliances in the global health sector. You will discuss the themes of political causes, policymaking, health communications, and wider community engagement that use the Global Polio Eradication Initiative as a case study.

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5 Weeks
Intermediate
Free
Planning and Managing Global Health Programmes Promoting Quality Accountability and Equity

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Planning and Managing Global Health Programmes: Promoting Quality, Accountability, and Equity

This online training for Planning and Managing Global Health Programmes: Promoting Quality, Accountability, and Equity lasts five weeks. This course syllabus was created and delivered through the FutureLearn platform by the Synthesis and Translation of Research and Innovations in Polio Eradication and Johns Hopkins University. Svea Closser, Olakunle Alonge, Anna Kalbarczyk, and Angelica Lopez Hernandez are the instructors for this course.

A complex set of problems must be discussed when organising and overseeing a global health initiative. There are numerous considerations to be made at all levels, from global to citizen and sub-national. Using polio eradication as a case study, you will tackle the basic concepts, theoretical frameworks, and practical details involved in this complex process. This included establishing a strong supply chain, combating corruption, evaluating the intersectional of poverty and gender, as well as evaluating how the initiative may assist or impede the bigger goal of universal access. 

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5 Weeks
Intermediate
Free
Certificate

Begin Robotics

Belonging to the IT, and Computer Science field, this Begin Robotics certification is a mini-course offered together by the University of Reading, and FutureLearn. Robots are everywhere, even on Mars, and even present in our entertainment films. The great Stephen Hawkings had also predicted that robots will be a threat to human beings in the coming times. So this introductory course is here to explain all about robots and their different forms.

Begin Robotics certification syllabus is here to explain the robotic history, its evolution, and how these exciting machines can be put to work by humans in their daily walks of life. Not only this the candidates get to explore the modernized application of Robotics and human relationships with them.

Begin Robotics training will help to find the basics of robot design, and bring the candidates a step closer to how Hawking’s brain worked in cybernetics. The University of Reading is a reputed organization in research so one can even do a robotic test drive to enhance their practical knowledge with this  IT course.

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4 Weeks
Beginner
Free
Skills Covered:
Robotic skills
Certificate

Exploring Everyday Chemistry

One of the leading universities in the United Kingdom, the University of York has prepared the Exploring Everyday Chemistry certification with the help of FutureLearn. This is a free course that is taught in an online format with a special emphasis on what role organic Chemistry plays in the study of organic compounds containing carbon. This course is ideal for students who are sixth formers for the development of independent learning skills.

The Exploring Everyday Chemistry certification syllabus has a range of topics which is based on chemistry that has impacts on our daily lives. The several activities that are included in this syllabus are hands-on projects that range from drawing out a fragrance to finding out by testing the spice’s activities in relation to microbes.

Exploring Everyday Chemistry training is divided into 4 weeks that use real-life incidents to showcase how the organic compounds’ structure and shape are used further to explain their properties and reactivity.

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4 Weeks
Beginner
Free
Skills Covered:
Knowledge of Chemistry
Certificate

Improving Healthcare Through Clinical Research

Improving Healthcare Through Clinical Research certification is an online course where certificates have been jointly given both by FutureLearn, the University of Leeds, and the National Institute for Health Research. From this 4 hours course which is held weekly, the candidates are able to explore the benefits, and challenges of modern healthcare with respect to clinical research.

Anything that is done for the healthcare sector has to be discovered first and then tested thoroughly before it can be used for practice. Improving Healthcare Through Clinical Research certification syllabus allows the students to learn through case studies, and also investigate what kind of research takes place for doing treatment of deadly diseases like cancer, and dementia.

With Improving Healthcare Through Clinical Research, candidates can raise ethical questions on the research process, and even learn how the research team’s members, participants, and academics are responsible for contributing to this process of clinical discovery.

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4 Weeks
Beginner
Free
Skills Covered:
Knowledge of healthcare sciences
Certificate

Communicating with Diverse Audiences

Communication is critical for a professional in any domain. However, what sets one apart, is communicating seamlessly in a diverse setting, with people from various backgrounds, thus ensuring a seamless interaction. 

The online Communicating with Diverse Audiences programme imparts learning in this sphere exactly, enabling aspirants to master barrier-less communication, no matter what the situation. 

FutureLearn offers the Communicating with Diverse Audiences training course in collaboration with the CPD Certification Service. Hence, learners undertake a programme that conforms to continuing the professional development principles and become certified professionals in the process. 

The course curriculum covers essential topics of this domain, including the role of language and culture in communication, unconscious and language bias, how language establishes interpersonal relationships, and more. 

Other than the course content, students will avail an array of benefits as well. The Communicating with Diverse Audiences certificate programme offers a 100% online training, a short duration of four weeks, a chance to earn a digital certificate, and more. Learners can also preview a couple of the course steps to understand what the programme is about before they join.

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4 Weeks
Free
Skills Covered:
Communication skills
Certificate

Climate Change: The Science

4 Weeks
Free
Global Prosperity Beyond GDP

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Global Prosperity Beyond GDP

The Global Prosperity Beyond GDP certification is responsible for creating a better world by shifting its focus on health, and prosperity rather than wealth. Within just one month, and 2 hours of sessions the candidates will approach what are the other determinants of the success of a society. This course has been designed both by University College London, and pretend on the FutureLearn platform.

No longer more success means economic growth, and by 2050, the population in the world will be 10 billion and there may be an environmental crisis. To survive such a situation, from today itself people will have to use new tools to tackle the problems of today so that the world can have a prosperous future ahead. This is exactly what the Global Prosperity Beyond GDP certification syllabus is responsible for teaching.

Global Prosperity Beyond GDP training will shift its focus from prosperity to how the world got to the economies that it is today in. In these 4 weekly modules, the students will progress from the current to the future well-being of our world.

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4 Weeks
Free
Skills Covered:
Knowledge of Economics

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LUT University , EIT via Futurelearn
Certificate

Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing: Costs Structures and Benefits

Future Learn’s Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing programme is a short-term online course that will run for four weeks. You will learn about 3D printing and additive manufacturing and how your organisation can benefit from them. The programme will help develop your understanding of the benefits and cost structure of the two processes. You will also learn the business advantages related to additive manufacturing. 

Furthermore, the Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing certification syllabus will dive into metal additive manufacturing and its benefits. You will get a deep understanding of digital manufacturing technology and the opportunities it presents. The programme will provide you with a chance to learn alongside experts from EIT RawMaterials and LUT University. 

Additionally, Future Learn’s Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing certification has been designed to enable self-paced learning. You can even map your progress during the course by marking the lessons you have completed. After completing the course material and assessments, you will also be eligible for an official certificate.

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4 Weeks
Intermediate
Free
Skills Covered:
Supply Management

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