How our short courses work
Join us online or in Oxford
Ways to study with Oxford Continuing Education
Explore a new topic or revisit a favourite subject over a few days, a few weeks or a term. Our short courses run in person or online, with some offered in both formats – so you can choose the study option best for you.
- ‘Online – live’ courses are taught completely online and have scheduled, live-time meetings to attend. Live-time discussions and Q&A take place via an online platform. Additionally, some ‘online – live’ weekly courses have prerecorded lectures to enjoy. Courses include day events, weekend schools, lecture series and weekly classes.
- ‘Online – flexible’ courses are taught fully online but have no live-time meetings – so you can study when it suits you at any time of the day or night. Teaching takes place in a virtual learning environment, with students and tutors interacting in online text-based forums. The forums are not live and students can add their comments at any time.
- In-person events require attendance in Oxford and have no online components. These include weekly classes, day events and weekend schools.
- Hybrid teaching events are livestreamed from Oxford and include lecture series, day events and weekend schools. You can choose to join either in person or online.
Upcoming courses
In-person weekly • Short courses
Everything you wanted to know about fossils - from the very first life (the 'weird and wonderfuls') to the multitude of life through geological time. The main groups are covered, how they lived, how they died and environmental information they provide.
- Tue 08 Oct 2024 – Tue 03 Dec 2024
- 10 meetings
- 2:00 – 4:00pm
In-person weekly • Short courses
Discover Earth's origin, its chemical composition, continents and oceans, mountains, earthquakes, volcanoes, the history of life, climate change, energy resources, species diversity and natural disasters: geological science explains all these and more.
- Wed 09 Oct 2024 – Wed 04 Dec 2024
- 10 meetings
- 7:00 – 9:00pm
In-person weekly • Short courses
An introduction to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy that will enable both experienced clinicians from other therapeutic traditions and people with a general interest in therapy to gain a foundation in key CBT theory and skills.
- Thu 10 Oct 2024 – Thu 12 Dec 2024
- 10 meetings
- 9:30 – 11:30am
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
In-person day/weekend • Short courses
Introducing the physical and personal journeys and intercultural collaborations of independent British women as they travelled, and lived, in Ottoman Turkish Arabia and the post-WW1 Middle East at a time of dramatic change (1845-1945).
- Sat 12 Oct 2024
- 9:45am – 5:00pm
Day and Weekend Events
Join us in Oxford or online to explore a topic in depth over one or two days with multiple speakers or extend your knowledge over several weeks with a lecture series.Lecture series
Weekly lectures on a given topic. All can be enjoyed in person at Rewley House, with the majority also being livestreamed – so you can choose to attend online or in Oxford.Weekly learning
Study with Oxford on a weekly schedule over one or two terms. Choose from courses that meet in-person in Oxford, online courses with live-time sessions and flexible online courses.