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 • Lecture series • Hybrid - in person or online
Should painters depict moral subjects in sharp-edged clarity? Or should painting echo the abstractions of music in its depictions of the modern industrial world? This lecture will address these questions, with reference to the Ruskin-Whistler controversy.
- Wed 05 Feb 2025
- 2:00 – 3:15pm
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 06 Feb 2025 – 07 Feb 2025
- 10:00am – 1:00pm
Online - live • Short courses • Hybrid - in person or online
Robots, cyborgs and AI systems fire our imaginations and have inspired many movies, from HAL in '2001: A Space Odyssey' to Data in 'Star Trek' and Skynet in 'The Terminator'. What moral issues do they raise?
- Sat 08 Feb 2025
- 10:15am – 5:30pm
Online - live • Short courses • Hybrid - in person or online
W.B. Yeats was one of the most influential and important poets of the twentieth century. During his long career, his poetry had many forms. This day school looks at his work during the 1920s and 30s. Join us in Oxford or online.
- Sat 08 Feb 2025
- 9:45am – 5:00pm
Online - live • Short courses • Professional development
This course is for marketing professionals and business owners who feel they have mastered the essentials of marketing and who are now looking to develop their knowledge and apply it at a new level.
- Tue 11 Feb 2025 – 13 Feb 2025
- 3 meetings
- 10:30 - 12:30 (UK time)
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.