Boredom busting courses

Join virtual classrooms and learn new skills.

Bored of Netflix? Need a distraction from the news? Here’s a collection of tried and tested, boredom busting online courses to help fill up the hours. And it's FREE of charge, see below.

There's a whole world of interesting content from world-class universities and institutions, including:

• Start Writing Fiction made by The Open University
• the life and times of The Tudors from the University of Roehampton
• and all things fashion, business and culture with Institut Français de la mode's course, featuring exclusive input from fashion industry leaders and designers such as Simon Porte Jacquemus, Christelle Kocher, Paul Smith, and CEOs at Chanel, YSL and Hermès.

Whilst you're taking care of your hobbies, don't forget yourself. There's a series of courses which can help control anxiety, improve wellbeing, and discover the role food plays in your health. Explore online psychology and mental health courses here.

Learn for free, upgrade, or buy Unlimited
You can choose how you learn on the online short courses. Here’s the difference between learning for free, upgrading, and buying Unlimited:

Free

• Access to the course for its duration + 14 days, regardless of when you join

Upgrade

• Access to the course for as long as it exists on FutureLearn
• Access to course tests if there are any
• A printed and digital Certificate of Achievement or Statement of Participation when you’re eligible

Unlimited

• Access to your choice of hundreds of online short courses and tests for a year
• A printable digital Certificate of Achievement on all short courses once you’re eligible
• The freedom to keep the content of any of the courses you’ve gained a digital Certificate of Achievement on
• The flexibility to complete your short courses in your own time within a year

Click here to find out more on the FutureLearn website

Other FREE Online tuition sites:

• GCF Global (part of the Goodwill Community Foundation)  https://edu.gcfglobal.org/en/subjects/tech/
• Tech Boomers   https://techboomers.com/