Online Short Courses

Our online short courses provide you the opportunity to study what is relevant to you with freedom and flexibility in when, where and how you learn.

Professional and Continuing Education offers online short courses through AdelaideX and FutureLearn.

AdelaideX and FutureLearn courses are engaging, interactive and available on topics as diverse as Shakespeare to big data to leadership development. They are designed and taught by the University of Adelaide’s world-renowned academics and researchers.

Professional and Continuing Education, through AdelaideX, is also pleased to offer the Big Data MicroMasters Program, MathTrackX XSeries Program and Professional Certificate in Fundamentals of Project Management.

If you are a University of Adelaide academic who wants to provide your on-campus students with full access to online course materials, visit the ‘For Academics’ page.

Online courses

Explore more than 45 free online short courses taught by world-leading academics from the University of Adelaide, delivered through AdelaideX and FutureLearn.

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MicroMasters

Learn about the Big Data MicroMasters Program, featuring the following courses:

  • Programming for Data Science
  • Computational Thinking and Big Data
  • Big Data Fundamentals
  • Big Data Analytics
  • Big Data Capstone Project

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XSeries

Learn about the MathTrackX XSeries Program, featuring the following courses:

  • MathTrackX: Polynomials, Functions and Graphs
  • MathTrackX: Special Functions
  • MathTrackX: Differential Calculus
  • MathTrackX: Integral Calculus
  • MathTrackX: Probability
  • MathTrackX: Statistics

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Fundamentals of Project Management

Learn more about the Professional Certificate in Fundamentals of Project Management, featuring the following courses:

  • Introduction to Project Management
  • Rick Management for Projects

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