Sign up Now for This Free Course on Successful Ageing
Today I wanted to let you know about a free course I have taken myself and highly recommend. It’s running again in July, so there’s plenty of time to sign up.
The course is called Strategies for Successful Ageing. It’s run by Trinity College, Dublin, under the auspices of Futurelearn, a UK-based platform for short online courses from British and international universities. All Futurelearn courses are free (although for optional upgrades a fee is payable) and open to anyone in the world.
Strategies for Successful Ageing will run for five weeks, two hours per week, starting 2 July 2018. If those dates aren’t suitable for you, you can sign up to be notified when it’s running again.
This course is intended for anyone who wants to learn strategies and tips for successful ageing. On the website, it says:
The knowledge that you gain from this free online course will inspire you to choose activities and behaviours that improve your quality of life. Through this course, we hope you will think differently about ageing and recognise the many contributions that older adults make every day.
As a community of learners, we will discuss what you’re doing to maintain your health, increase your wellbeing, maintain friendships and navigate life’s challenges.
Together, we will discover the many opportunities for personal growth and community-building by exploring the skills, talents and dreams of older adults.
As I mentioned earlier, I took this course myself last year and highly recommend it. The course materials (and tutors) are first rate, and include information on the latest research into ageing that challenges the conventional stereotypes.
As well as the teaching, another big attraction of all Futurelearn courses is the opportunity they provide to interact with other students from all over the world. There can be almost as much to learn from them as the course itself! When I took Strategies for Successful Ageing most of my fellow students were in the 50-70 age group, but there were plenty who were older.
You can sign up for Strategies for Successful Ageing by clicking through any of the links to the course in this post.
Futurelearn also have lots of other interesting free courses, incidentally. I have studied subjects ranging from diabetes to astronomy, but Strategies for Successful Ageing has probably been the course I enjoyed most and got the most from.
If you have any comments or questions about this post, as always, please do post them below.
May 5, 2018 @ 4:52 pm
I love FutureLearn so I’d recommend any of their free courses – good to see there’s one on ageing too! x
May 5, 2018 @ 8:35 pm
Thanks, Caz. Yes, there are some great courses on offer, and Strategies for Successful Ageing is one of the best.