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Online Courses to Improve your Career Prospects Are you doing the right things to move your career forward? There are lots of things you probably know you should be doing, but do you actually do them or even know HOW to do them? Building the right skills is more important than ever in today's job environment if you want to improve your employability or advance in your current workplace. With people increasingly regularly changing jobs and even careers several times in a lifetime, being...

Online Learning FAQ Although online courses can have many of the same components as traditional classrooms such as lectures, group discussions, and assignments, online learning is a different experience to the traditional face-to-face setting of teaching and learning. If you are thinking of taking your learning online, these Frequently Asked Questions and Answers will give you a better idea of what online learning involves and whether it's right for you. Go to the Online Learning FAQ

With many of us confined to our homes during this COVID-19 crisis, it makes sense to use this time as an opportunity to build our skillset and deepen our knowledge. Indeed, there has been a sharp increase in the numbers of people turning to online learning platforms such as edX, FutureLearn and Coursera, which offer “Massive Open Online Courses” – or MOOCs. What are MOOCs? MOOCs are educational courses which are delivered online and are open to anyone who wants to enrol. MOOCs are often...

MoocLab submitted a new resource: Online Tools for the Online Learner - Online tools to help students be successful online Read more about this resource...

In 2013, the Open Universities Australia (OUA) launched Open2Study, a MOOC platform offering 50 free courses focusing on concrete career skills. The courses, which included free course certificates, were sourced from the Australian universities involved with the Open Universities consortium and also from corporate partners. It has become apparent that the site has been quietly closing down their free offering by gradually removing courses from their catalogue of free courses. There...