{"id":4129,"date":"2014-09-28T20:48:20","date_gmt":"2014-09-28T20:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/?p=4129"},"modified":"2014-09-28T20:48:20","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T20:48:20","slug":"moocs-moocs-moocs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/moocs-moocs-moocs\/","title":{"rendered":"MOOCs, MOOCs and more MOOCs\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are a number of FutureLearn MOOCs about to start which may be of interest to students, staff, alumni\u2026<\/p>\n

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For students coming up to dissertations and\/or preparing for the workplace:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.futurelearn.com\/courses\/data-to-insight<\/a>\u00a0(University of Auckland, starts 6\/10<\/a> ) This course is a hands-on introduction to statistical data analysis that emphasises fundamental concepts and practical skills.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.futurelearn.com\/courses\/writing-applications<\/a>\u00a0(University of Sheffield, starts 6\/10<\/a>) This free three week course will help you produce a perfect CV, application and online profile when applying for a job or course.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.futurelearn.com\/courses\/interviews<\/a>\u00a0(University of Sheffield, starts 3\/11<\/a>) This free three week course provides the tools you need to succeed at interviews and land your dream job or course place.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.futurelearn.com\/courses\/research-project-sep-2014<\/a>(University of Southampton, started 15\/9) Undertaking an Extended Project Qualification, IB extended essay or any other scholarly research? This guides you step-by-step. (Although this course has already started, it runs for 8 weeks at just one hour per week, so catching up is not difficult. It is proving very popular with students up to PhD level from all over the world.)<\/p>\n

For new students recently arrived in the UK:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.futurelearn.com\/courses\/english-for-study-oct-2014<\/a>\u00a0(University of Reading, starts 6\/10<\/a>) Learn how to use English for study at university or college and develop your writing skills, vocabulary and grammar.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.futurelearn.com\/courses\/academic-integrity<\/a>\u00a0(University of Auckland, starts 10\/11) <\/a>This course will explore academic integrity and how you can demonstrate it in your work, study and research at university.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.futurelearn.com\/courses\/study-skills-for-international-students-4<\/a>\u00a0(University of East Anglia, starts 24\/11<\/a>) A course looking at key skills that international students need in order to be successful at a UK university.<\/p>\n

And for the full range of our own @unisouthampton MOOCS: https:\/\/www.futurelearn.com\/partners\/university-of-southampton. <\/a>From this list, Shipwrecks and Web Science start on 6th October, and Digital Marketing on 13th October. We are rapidly approaching a total of 100,000 learners who have studied across all of our Southampton MOOCs \u2013 a suite of programmes that started less than a year ago. Big celebrations are planned \u2013 watch this space!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are a number of FutureLearn MOOCs about to start which may be of interest to students, staff, alumni\u2026 For students coming up to dissertations and\/or preparing for the workplace: https:\/\/www.futurelearn.com\/courses\/data-to-insight\u00a0(University of Auckland, starts 6\/10 ) This course is a hands-on introduction to statistical data analysis that emphasises fundamental concepts and practical skills. https:\/\/www.futurelearn.com\/courses\/writing-applications\u00a0(University of Sheffield, starts 6\/10) This free …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73492,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[413006],"tags":[504563,504295],"class_list":["post-4129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moocs","tag-fldigital","tag-flwebsci","column","threecol"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p44UOk-14B","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/73492"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4129"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4133,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4129\/revisions\/4133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}