Open University Personal Finance course

[Brendan Burgess]

The Open University has a Personal Finance Mooc

https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/managing-my-money

About the course

With real incomes falling and personal debt at a record high, there has never been a better time to improve your personal financial skills – ‘Managing my money’ aims to do just that.
The course starts by giving you practical guidance on how to compile a budget and use it to make good decisions about your spending. You’ll explore debts and investments, and find out how mortgages are used to finance home ownership. The critical issue of pension planning is explained, with guidance on different pension products.
The course concludes by examining different types of insurance and offers practical advice on how to make rational decisions about which insurance products to buy.
Using up-to-the minute data from the UK you develop financial skills and approaches that are relevant globally. The course is rich in high-quality text, images, video, audio and interactive elements to support your learning.
You can use the hashtag #FLMyMoney14 to join and contribute to Twitter conversations about this course.
This course is presented on FutureLearn with the kind support of True Potential LLP.

Brendan



"Mooc" is a new word to me. Wikipedia tells me that it is

"A Massive Open Online Course (MOOC; /muːk/) is an online course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web. In addition to traditional course materials such as videos, readings, and problem sets, MOOCs provide interactive user forums that help build a community for students, professors, and teaching assistants (TAs). MOOCs are a recent development in distance education which began to emerge in 2012."

 

[RichInSpirit]

It sounds interesting all right Brendan.

 

[Orga]

The II had an article about MOOCs some time ago. Here is the link: http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle...lls-and-qualifications-for-free-30067010.html

Personally, I have used coursera and found a high percentage of the courses to be very good, bearing in mind the significant differences between face to face, online, and MOOC-based delivery.

 

[dub_nerd]

I've completed a couple of MOOCs with Coursera and Stanford Online. I'm also currently doing a more conventional degree with the Open University. They're not really comparable, however MOOCs definitely have their place.