Advancing digital for your career

This free course, Gamified Intelligent Cyber Aptitude and Skills Training (GICAST), will help you to understand online security and start to protect your digital life, whether at home or work. You will learn how to recognise the threats that could harm you online and the steps you can take to reduce the chances that they will happen to you.

Information security underpins the commercial viability and profitability of enterprises of all sizes and the effectiveness of public sector organisations. This free course begins by explaining why information security and its management are important for any modern organisation and to every individual. You need to be familiar with an organisation, such as your employer, to study this course.

This course analyses several cyber security incidents and looks at what lessons can be learned.

Learn Information Security from top universities and institutions around the world to build your skills and advance your career with the free courses available on edX.

Learn Windows 10 Security from top universities and institutions around the world to build your skills and advance your career with the free courses available on edX.

On this Cyber Technologist Skills Bootcamp, you'll be able to implement a series of technical, procedural and physical controls to monitor, detect and respond to a wide range of cyber security threats. In just 12 weeks, you'll be trained in cyber risk and mitigation, maintaining the confidentiality, integrity and availability of digital data. They will use their skills to feed into policy decisions of a cyber security awareness culture within the business.

This free course, Data and processes in computing, will help you to understand the forms of data that are handled by software and look at the various processes that can be applied to the data. These ideas are demonstrated through the use of a supermarket till and illustrate how simple data sets can be manipulated.

Learn how web analytics can help measure the success of your online marketing, and get better results.

DataSkills by The Open University is a 16 week part time training programme which combines the Open University’s fifty years’ experience of promoting education for all and supporting busy working adults to learn, with real-world careers insights from Microsoft, one of the world’s largest IT companies.

You will write up analyses and do coding exercises using the popular Jupyter Notebooks platform, which allows you to see immediately the result of running your code and helps you identify – and fix – any errors more easily. You will also look at real data from the World Health Organisation, the World Bank and other organisations.

Learn Statistics from top universities and institutions around the world to build your skills and advance your career with the free courses available on edX.

Learn how to work together to meet challenges effectively with Microsoft Power Platform by analyzing data, building apps, automating processes, and creating virtual agents.

Computers are all around us: in cars, kitchen scales, digital cameras, etc. But how do they store the data they hold? This free course, Representing and manipulating data in computers, will help you to understand how the data in a computer represents something in the outside world. You will also explore how ASCII code and Unicode are used to control data.

Make your complex data available and accessibleYou design and implement the management, monitoring, and security of data solutions. Get the skills and knowledge needed to build your career as a successful Data Engineer.

Learn NumPy from top universities and institutions around the world to build your skills and advance your career with the free courses available on edX.