Future Learn and Start Writing Fiction

Future Learn allows you to further your education for free.

      Hey everyone! I'm here today to talk about an awesome website I found early on last year. FutureLearn.com is a great site with hundreds of different courses from Universities and Colleges from all over the world (For the most part the United Kingdom) such as The Open University. You can find courses about topics such as Business,  Film, Story Writing, Medical, Science, and more. 

      Each course has its own set run period set up by the university running it, some courses run from two weeks to a whopping ten weeks. Each course week you go through steps, marking each step as complete once you finish reading each article, or watching each video. At the end of the week you will sometimes have an assessment test or pop quiz. The pop quizzes will not be counted towards your final score but the assessments will, but you're able to go back and re-read all your previous steps so it's no biggie. At the end of the course you receive an Certificate of Achievement recognizing that you sat through and completed each course week, these you can put onto your Resume or CV. 

      The website is easy to sign up on and all you need is your First Name, Last Name, a Password and your email address, you can actually sign in using your facebook as well if you want. After you've signed up you can either edit your profile to add a profile picture or jump straight into the course search list and look for some courses to join. Some courses won't start for a few weeks or even a month but you can sign up prior to them starting. The thing is with these courses is that you're free to do them at your own pace and even when the course ends you can still go back and do them at anytime if you haven't clicked "leave this course".

      I've learned a lot using this website and this week I've joined a new course called Start Writing Fiction, it's run by The Open University and Darek Neale is the head instructor. I have a huge passion for writing stories,even though I tend to lack the confidence to put them out there. (This blog will definitely fix that I think) I'm going to be on there as Zachary Kuhn, so if you see a Zach with a tie and glasses on his profile image, yeah that's me, I'm a nerd forgive me.

      I can't wait to see the short stories people will write during this course and hope you post some of yours there! If writing isn't your thing there are hundreds and hundreds of other courses to choose from so have fun, and good luck learning!

See you in the next blog!