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 a weekly learning programme.
Explore the different online course types below.
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Short online courses (Flexible): These have no live-time meetings, so you can study when it suits you.
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Short online courses (Live): These have weekly 1-hour online meetings to attend.
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Day and weekend events: Include livestreamed lectures and small online workshops.
Upcoming courses
Online - live • Professional development • Hybrid - in person or online
Department for Continuing Education’s second annual research ethics colloquium; a dynamic forum exploring AI’s evolving role in lifelong learning and its ethical implications in academic research.
- Fri 13 Jun 2025
- 9:30am – 5:00pm
Online - live • Professional development
Covering the process of doing a systematic review, focusing on practicalities and emphasising how and why this qualifies as scientific research.
- Mon 30 Jun 2025 – 04 Jul 2025
- 8:00am – 1:00pm
Online - live • Professional development • Hybrid - in person or online
Consider techniques for reading effectively in different contexts, and think critically through seminal papers from different academic disciplines. Part of the Graduate School's postgraduate research skills training programme.
- Wed 09 Jul 2025
- 11:00am – 1:00pm
Online - live • Professional development • Hybrid - in person or online
Discounted package for all 5 postgraduate research skills training sessions: Academic Reading: Approach and Critique; Writing an Abstract; Improving Your Presentations; Writing Your Methodology; and Research Interviews: Styles and Techniques.
- Wed 09 Jul 2025 – 06 Aug 2025
- 5 meetings
- 11:00am – 1:00pm
Online - live • Professional development
Explore issues and methods involved in conducting qualitative and/or ethnographic research in the social sciences related to the digital with this online course.
- Wed 16 Jul 2025 – 05 Sep 2025
Online - live • Professional development • Hybrid - in person or online
This interactive and practical hybrid session will consider how to write a clear and effective abstract in various different academic contexts. Part of the Graduate School's postgraduate research skills training programme.
- Wed 16 Jul 2025
- 11:00am – 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.
Short online courses
Our short online courses are taught in two alternative teaching formats - flexible or live. All of these courses are 10 weeks long.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 with Oxford University. From short courses and training in Oxford and online to flexible graduate programmes and bespoke courses.