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
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the largest cloud computing service provider and one of the leaders in machine and deep learning. Learn how to use a collection of their powerful cloud-based machine/deep learning services at this online day school.
- Sat 12 Oct 2024
- 10:00am – 5:00pm
Online - live • Short courses • Professional development
This course provides you with the terminology to identify workplace toxicity. You will learn about psychological tools and techniques to recognise and protect yourself, and be introduced to self-repair strategies to facilitate better mental health.
- Mon 14 Oct 2024 – 17 Oct 2024
- 4 meetings
- 11:00-12:30 (UK time)
Online - live • Short courses • Lecture series • Hybrid - in person or online
The people from the sparse populations and inhospitable lands surrounding the Baltic Sea have played a creative and totally disproportionate role in the history of Europe and the world. This lecture series examines their history and influence
- Wed 16 Oct 2024 – 20 Nov 2024
- 11:00am – 12:15pm
Online - live • Short courses • Lecture series • Hybrid - in person or online
The Cold War posed difficult challenges for European countries both East and West. This lecture series analyses how six European leaders navigated their way through this period.
- Fri 18 Oct 2024 – 22 Nov 2024
- 2:00 – 3:15pm
Online - live • Short courses • Lecture series • Hybrid - in person or online
Acknowledged to be a relative liberal in domestic policy, Nikita Khrushchev’s foreign policy was a complicated mixture of hard-line repression and conciliatory diplomacy with the US and NATO. This lecture examines the contradictions of ‘co-existence’.
- Fri 18 Oct 2024
- 2:00 – 3:15pm
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.