UCT offers 19 courses hosted on Coursera that are free and that anyone can join. There are no entry requirements and these are not for university credit. You can choose to purchase a certificate, and in some cases financial aid is available.
Four UCT courses that were previously hosted on the FutureLearn platform have been retired. These were Medicine and the Arts, What is a Mind, Extinctions: Past and Present and Education for All. The video lectures from these courses can be accessed through the OpenUCT public repository, search using the MOOC name.
We hope you find a course from the list below that excites you; sign up or register your interest. Find out more about learning in a MOOC, making MOOCs and UCTMOOCs in the news.
- Popular courses for everyone
- Courses for research and development professionals
- Courses focused on innovation and technology
- Courses for health professionals
- Courses focused on teaching and learning
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Becoming a changemaker: Introduction to Social Innovation Learn about, or improve the quality of your social innovation knowledge. |
Dr Francois Bonnici, A/Prof Warren Nilsson & Dr Marlon Parker |
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Climate Change Mitigation in Developing Countries Challenges you to consider how one might lift societies out of poverty while also mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. |
Professor Harald Winkler 6 weeks, on Coursera View promo Enroll |
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This course focuses on climate change impacts across Africa, dealing with concepts of vulnerability, adaptation, sustainable development and |
Professor Mark New 6 weeks, on Coursera View promo Enroll |
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Large Marine Ecosystems: Assessment and Management This course introduces the concepts and tools for assessing and managing Large Marine Ecosystems (LMEs). |
A/Prof Coleen Moloney 6 weeks, on Coursera View promo Enroll |
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Learn a set of principles and practices that will make your research more impactful. |
Prof Mark New & Mr Jesse DeMaria-Kinney |
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Courses focused on innovation and technology |
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Innovative Finance: Design and build innovative finance strategies to catalyse social impact in a business or community. |
Ms Aunnie Patton Power 5 weeks, on Coursera View promo Enroll |
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Fintech Regulation in Emerging Learn about the major financial crises and fintech regulation in emerging markets using case studies. |
A/Prof Co-Pierre Georg 4 weeks, on Coursera View promo Enroll |
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How Entrepreneurs in Emerging Discover the potential of blockchain and artificial intelligence for start-ups in emerging markets. |
A/Prof Co-Pierre Georg African Institute for Financial Markets and Risk Management 4 weeks, on Coursera View promo Enroll |
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Building Fintech Startups in Emerging Markets Offers steps to get going on your entrepreneurial journey in the Fintech field, with basic business planning tools and interviews with a variety of start-up companies. |
A/Prof Co-Pierre Georg 4 weeks, on Coursera Enroll |
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An introduction to a new programming language developed specifically for high-performance scientific computing. |
Dr Henri Laurie & Dr Juan H Klopper 4 weeks, on Coursera View promo Enroll |
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Introduction to Small Molecule Drug Discovery & Development Learn about the different stages of drug discovery and development, including the tools and technologies influencing how we think about new medicines. |
Dr Susan Winks 4 weeks, on Coursera |
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Understanding Clinical Research: If you have ever skipped the results section of a medical paper because terms like ‘confidence interval’ or ‘p-value’ go over your head, then this is the course for you. |
Dr Juan H Klopper 6 weeks, on Coursera View promo Enroll |
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Doing Clinical Research: Biostatistics with the Wolfram Language With no prior coding experience, you can learn how to do biostatistical analysis for clinical research by programming with the Wolfram Language. |
Dr Juan H Klopper 4 weeks, on Coursera Enroll |
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Organ Donation: From Death to Life Learn about the science behind death determination and when it is possible for deceased organ donation to take place. |
Dr David Thomson 4 weeks, on Coursera View promo Enroll |
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Writing your World: Finding yourself This course is not just about writing skills, it is also about engaging with the world through the concepts of identity, mobility and culture. |
Dr Aditi Hunma & Dr Gideon Nomdo 4 weeks, on Coursera View promo Enroll |
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Disability Inclusion in Education: This course explores the support that teachers need to meet the learning needs of children with severe to profound hearing, visual or intellectual disability. |
A/Prof Judith McKenzie 5 weeks, on Coursera View promo Enroll |
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Educating Deaf Children: Becoming an Empowered Teacher Gain knowledge and skills to provide quality and holistic education to Deaf children. |
Odette Swift and Tara Kuhn 4 weeks, on Coursera View promo Enroll |
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Severe to Profound Intellectual Disability: Circles of Care and Education This course is about informing and empowering parents, caregivers, therapists and others involved in caring for and educating children with severe to profound intellectual disability by exploring what intellectual disability entails, learning about support needs, how to plan learning activities and build relationships of care and respect. |
A/Prof Judith McKenzie 4 weeks, on Coursera View promo Enroll |
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Teaching Children with Visual Impairment: Creating Empowering Classrooms This course empowers teachers to create classrooms that are inclusive, accessible, and attuned to children with visual impairment. |
Dr Brian Watermeyer Disability Studies scholar and Clinical Psychologist 4 weeks, on Coursera Enroll |
