11 Short courses offered by the university

This Technology in Practice module at The Open University UK provides an opportunity to sample some of the key areas in computing and information technology. You will be introduced to three topics as tasters for your future studies and career: networking, operating systems and robotics.

This Engineering - frameworks, analysis, production module from The Open University UK builds on the concepts and techniques in Engineering: origins, methods, context (T192).

The development of reflective engineering practice is integral throughout this Core Engineering A modules from The Open University UK.

Team Engineering at The Open University UK aims to develop the essential professional engineering skill of working with others.

This Electronics - signal processing, control and communications module from The Open University UK takes the ideas that you know about basic electronic circuits, together with general engineering principles, and looks at three of the main applications of electronics. It comprises three blocks: signal processing, control and communications.

In this Electronics - Sensing, Logic and Actuation module from The Open University UK you’ll gain industrially relevant skills in the core aspects of electronics: sensing gives detailed awareness of the world, logic makes smart decisions and actuation produces tangible outputs. 

This Renewable Energy module at The Open University UK explores each of the principal renewable energy sources in turn. Each technology is examined in terms of the relevant physical principles; the main technologies involved; their costs and environmental impact; the size of the potential renewable resource; and their future prospects.

This Making Strategy With Systems Thinking In Practice module at The Open University UK  will enable you to take strategic action in complex interconnected situations, where contrasting understandings, motivations and interests can often lead to conflict.

This Systems Security module at The Open University UK is based on the systems security domain of the Cyber Security Body of Knowledge (CyBOK). This knowledge area includes cryptography; authentication, authorisation and accountability (AAA); operating systems and virtualisation security; and distributed systems security.

This introductory Engineering - Origins, Methods, Context module offered by The Open University UK examines the range of human activity that is ’engineering’, setting current practice in a historical context and looking forward to new developments that will help shape the future.

This Engineering - Frameworks, Analysis, Production module from The Open University UK builds on the concepts and techniques in Engineering: origins, methods, context (T192).