Learning

In this blog post discover courses to help you ditch the boring small talk and find interesting new subjects. Ask “have you seen the moonwalking bear?” with Forensic Psychology Most of us like to think our powers of memory are fairly good, but in reality giving an accurate witness statement is very difficult. There are…

Despite regularly increasing life expectancies (WHO) and improving levels of education (UNICEF), the modern world has brought its own unique set of problems: from huge food waste (UN), to climate change (NASA), to an increasing wealth divide (Credit Suisse). The good news is people the world over are working together to understand these problems, and…

Bonnie Prince Charlie Full name: Charles Edward Louis John Casimir Sylvester Severino Maria StuartOccupation: Aristocrat Also known as: The Young Pretender, The Young Chevalier Time period: 1720 – 1788 Famous for: trying to reclaim the British throne for his exiled family (the Stuarts) by leading an uprising in 1745, failing and running away to France…

The theme of World Mental Health Day 2017 is mental health in the workplace. While mental health problems can affect anyone, at any time, today is a time to think about your own wellbeing and that of the people close to you – especially in relation to work. Here are three simple things you can…

Join a live coding Q&A with Raspberry Pi At 13:00 UTC+1 on 18 September 2017, we’ll be running a live coding Q&A on Facebook with the Raspberry Pi Foundation. This UK-based charity provides low-cost, high-performance computers, to help people learn, solve problems and have fun. Raspberry Pi already offers a range of coding courses on…

What did Henry VIII munch for lunch? How was chocolate used as a political tool? What was Queen Victoria’s favourite food? These are just some of the questions you’ll answer on the course A History of Royal Food and Feasting from the University of Reading and Historic Royal Palaces. Take an intimate look behind the scenes…

First held in 2010, the day coincides with William Shakespeare’s birthday and celebrates English as one of six official UN languages. To mark the occasion, we spoke to IELTS expert Chris Cavey about how the British Council’s online IELTS course helped 2.2 million students learn English last year, enabling them to live, work or study…

Imagine a world where you’re competing with AI and other technologies for work. With each new patent filed by the likes of Amazon and door-opening potential terminator created by Boston Dynamics, we edge ever-closer. In order to thrive and bring value to a post-industrial society, humans will need to adapt and learn continuously. At FutureLearn,…

This week is Learning at Work week in the UK. But making sure you have the right professional skills is important wherever you’re based. So how good are your soft skills? These aren’t the specialist skills required in your role that you might already have (for example coding or writing) these are skills that are…

Building self-confidence is the key to Leadership. When in sixth grade, my shy, soft-spoken, niece Katie approached me and asked me the best way how to learn to speak and write Japanese to add captions to her Japanese action cartoon characters that she liked to draw. I told her to take and learn martial arts.…