37 Short courses offered by the university

The aim of The Open University UK's Understanding financial statements course is to help you understand and interpret three types of financial statements. 

The Open University UK offers the Social media marketing programme.

The Open University UK offers the Introduction to digital marketing programme.

This Supply Chain Management module at The Open University UK will provide you with an in-depth insight into supply chain theory, design and best practice, taking into account issues such as ethics, sustainability and risk management. This will enable you to question and reflect upon your own organisation and its role in the supply chain.

This Managing in a Changing World module from The Open University UK will encourage you to develop, as well as challenge, your current knowledge and skills in order to deal with contemporary and rapidly changing areas of management and marketing. 

This Financial markets and the financing of organisations module from The Open University UK provides a grounding in the core areas of finance. You'll learn how to quantify risk and rewards associated with investments, as well as operationalise investment appraisal and construct portfolios of assets. 

The aim of this Management Accounting And International Finance module at The Open University UK is to introduce you to core management accounting and international financial concepts within organisations for decision making purposes.

This Managing Change With Systems Thinking In Practice module at The Open University UK  is about effecting whole-system change. It views change as inescapable in managing everyday situations ranging from personal to workplace to society in general.

Are you ready to discover how strategic management can help to explain our dynamic world? In this Strategic Management module at  The Open University UK  you’ll learn how to apply strategic management models and frameworks to real cases — from entrepreneurial companies to large multinationals and see how companies succeed in competition or how corporations expand internationally.

The Effective Communication Strategies and Skills for Work course from The Open University UK, developed by experts, equips you with linguistic strategies for effective workplace communication. 

This Employment relations and employee engagement module from The Open University UK explores the choices organisations make about employment relations strategies and the associated impacts on employee engagement. 

This Technology And Innovation Management module at The Open University UK  examines innovation from a management perspective, and thus enables you to develop your contribution to the process and management of technological innovation.

The Open University UK's The impact of storytelling in business course will take you on a learning journey to consider aspects of storytelling at the personal, organisational, and social levels.

This Leadership And Management Of Public Services module at The Open University UK  provides you with the opportunity to study the many dimensions of managing public services. The definition of what public services are will be deconstructed to enable you to analyse and integrate the many areas it spans.

This An Introduction to Business and Management course from The Open University UK provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to business and management in a globalised world. 

This Strategic Capabilities for Technological Innovation module at The Open University UK draws on material from the resource-based view of organisations and strategic and innovation management more generally to produce a multi-layered, practical, approach to the development and management of technological innovation.

This Entrepreneurship in Context module from The Open University UK will equip you with an entrepreneurial mindset that helps you cope with the increasingly rapid changes in economy and society. Entrepreneurial initiatives go beyond new venture creation.