MOOCs (massive open online courses) are free, online courses specifically designed to be studied online by cohort of world-wide learners.
Building a community of learners is at the core of our MOOCs and we achieve this by developing content that activity encourages discussion and sharing of knowledge. You will also experience resources such as video, articles, peer review and quizzes to test your knowledge.
Our portfolio of MOOCs is constantly expanding, so please check back regularly or visit our FutureLearn or Coursera (available soon) page.
The University of Glasgow is currently offering MOOCs via the FutureLearn and Coursea platform.
MOOCs on offer
The Scottish Highland Clans: Origins, Decline and Transformation
Explore fascinating Scottish history by learning about the Highland clans and how clanship has changed across hundreds of years.
End of Life Care: Challenges and Innovation
Explore dying and palliative care practice around the world and evaluate new trends and ideas surrounding end of life care issues.
Understanding Suicide and Suicide Prevention Strategies in a Global Context
Develop an understanding of suicide in a global context. Learn about suicide risk factors and ways to help prevent it.
Career Management for Early Career Academic Researchers
Learn how data science can help us understand our environment and try the tools used by statisticians and data scientists.
Data Science for Environmental modelling and renewables
Learn how data science can help us understand our environment and try the tools used by statisticians and data scientists.
Functional Programming in Haskell: Supercharge your coding
Get an introduction to Haskell, the increasingly popular functional programming language, with this University of Glasgow course.
TESOL Strategies: Enriching Classrooms
Learn the basic principles, considerations and strategies for cultivating a rich language-learning environment.
Research Impact: Making a Difference
Help your work to benefit society and the economy. Learn what research impact is and how to create it.
Working Supportively With Refugees: Principles, Skills and Perspectives
Learn how the principals of psychological well-being, communication and interpretation can benefit your work with refugees.
The Museum as a Site and Source for Learning
Find out how museum collections, spaces and technology help visitors learn.
Introduction to Critical Care Medicine
Get an introduction to basic first aid, including how to help someone who is choking, with this first aid course.
A History of Royal Fashion
Explore how British kings and queens have used fashion, and how fashion has used them, in this free online course.
Basic First Aid: How to Be an Everyday Hero
Get an introduction to basic first aid, including how to help someone who is choking, with this first aid course.
Early Modern Scottish Palaeography: Reading Scotland's Records
Travel back in time through Scottish history by examining early modern Scottish handwriting.
Introduction to Health Technology Assessment
This online course provides a short, interactive introduction to health technology assessment (HTA), based on the University of Glasgow’s successful online distance-learning programme, the MSc in HTA.
Cancer in the 21st Century: The Genomic Revolution
Discover how genetics is revolutionising the detection and treatment of cancer, with this free online course.
Antiquities Trafficking and Art Crime
Delve into the seedy underbelly of the art world, looking at smuggling, theft, fakes, and fraud, with this free online course.
Multilingual Learning for a Globalised World
This course will explore multilingual education and how it can impact and improve education and even wider society.
The Right to Education: Breaking Down the Barriers
Explore whether "education for all" means all and what barriers are there to participating in education? How do you include "all" in the classroom?
Robert Burns: Poems, Songs and Legacy
Celebrate Burns Night online, and dig deeper into the life and works of Robert Burns, with this free University of Glasgow course.
Music Copyright: Understanding UK Copyright Law When Working with Music
Understand UK music copyright law and how it applies to you as a creator, producer, marketer, distributor or licensee of music.
Net that Job: How to write a CV online
Find out how to write a CV online that will help you stand out and net your dream job, with this free online CV writing course.