Free Online Course on Returning to Education as a Mature Student offered By FutureLearn

Future Learn Platform is offering a free online course on the theme of “Returning to Education as a Mature Student”.

Course introduction:

What is a mature student? What life and work experience can mature learners bring to the learning environment? Answer these questions and more with this course.

You will consider the perceived barriers that mature learners face and potential solutions to those barriers. You will learn about the skills you need to develop as a mature student, the support systems you can gain access to, and the guidance that is available to you in making an application to a course of interest.

This course is intended for:

This course is for mature students who have been out of the education system for a significant period of time who are considering their future educational and career options with a view to doing a university course.

Course duration:

4 hours per week for 2 weeks.

Course topics:

Are you mature?

• Welcome
• Who are mature learners?
• Assumptions and barriers
• Benefits of returning to learning
• Closing thoughts and what's happening next week

So, education might be for me... what next?

• Goodbye barriers...time for next steps
• Ready, steady... go!
• Information, advice and guidance
• Digital and academic expectations
• On course for success
• Closing thoughts and next steps

Course objectives:

By the end of this course learners will be able to:

• Engage with other mature learners
• Evaluate their own barriers to returning to education including, those related to a sense of belonging to an education setting
• Design an action plan to prepare for the skills and support networks learners will need in advance of, and during, their course
• Apply the skills learned to begin making a UCAS application

Course costs:

Learner can join this course for free and get access to it for 4 weeks.

Or upgrade this course for $64 and gets:

• Access to this course for as long as it’s on Future Learn.
• Access to this course’s tests as well as a print and digital Certificate of Achievement once he/she is eligible.

Or buy unlimited for $ 189.99 for one year and gets:

• Access to this course, and hundreds of other FutureLearn short courses and tests for a year.
• A printable digital Certificate of Achievement on all short courses once they are eligible.
• The freedom to keep access to any course he/she has achieved a digital Certificate of Achievement on, for as long as the course exists on Future Learn.
• The flexibility to complete own choice of short courses in learner’s own time within the year.

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