Online short courses and events
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Explore a topic in depth over one or two days; extend your knowledge over several weeks with a lecture series; or join a weekly learning programme.
Browse all online short courses or explore the different online course types below.
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Flexible short online courses: these have no live-time meetings so you can study when it suits you.
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Live-time weekly classes: these have scheduled, live-time online meetings to attend.
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Day schools and weekend events: include livestreamed lectures and small online workshops.
Upcoming courses
Online - live • Short courses
Who am I? Why am I this way? Why do I make certain choices? Can I change? This online day school presents the main psychological theories of personality and explains how psychologists measure it.
- Thu 29 May 2025
- 10:00am – 5:00pm
Online - live • Short courses • Hybrid - in person or online
Explore how people and societies, from the ancient world to the 20th century, have understood and coped with crises caused by climatic events or climate change, using evidence from archaeology and economic, social and oral history.
- Sat 31 May 2025
- 9:45am – 5:00pm
Online - live • Short courses
Learn how to perform several highly useful statistical significance and hypothesis tests in R at this online day school. This includes, but is not limited to, t-tests, A/B, permutation, ANOVA, chi-squared, Fisher's Exact and Shapiro-Wilk tests.
- Sat 31 May 2025
- 10:00am – 5:00pm
Online - live • Short courses
We will take a brief look at the workings of the brain, and how psychologists describe the functions of attention, perception and memory. Explore how these processes can work to fool us, and what we have learned from dysfunction.
- Thu 05 Jun 2025 – 06 Jun 2025
- 2:00 – 5:00pm
Online - live • Short courses • Hybrid - in person or online
Trees speak to all of us. Across the world and throughout history, trees have been central to our lives: sources of shelter and food and wonder. This day school explores how Western artists through the ages have celebrated their mysterious power.
- Sat 07 Jun 2025
- 10:15am – 5:30pm
Online - live • Short courses
Positive Psychology offers a direct approach to help people create strategies towards wellbeing. Changing our interpretation of the world can help us feel happier, healthier, more positive, and become more resilient. Learn more at this online workshop.
- Thu 12 Jun 2025 – 13 Jun 2025
- 10:00am – 1:00pm
Flexible learning with Oxford
As well as short online courses, we also offer flexible Oxford University qualifications and professional development programmes. Many can be studied fully online, some require short residencies in Oxford.
Distance learning
Study with Oxford from anywhere in the world. From part-time Oxford University qualifications and professional development programmes (CPD), to online short courses.Low-residency programmes
Our low-residency programmes allow students the flexibility of studying primarily from home, with short residential stays in Oxford.Continuing professional development
Professional development (CPD) with Oxford University. From short courses and training in Oxford and online to flexible graduate programmes and bespoke courses.