Open University Free Online Course on Managing My Financial Journey

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Open University Free Online Course on Managing My Financial Journey

Open University is offering free online course on Managing My Financial Journey. Students will have gained a full insight into how the financial services industry operates and how you can transact business with knowledge and confidence.
This four-week course will guide you through the UK financial marketplace, starting with a rapid review of the history of the industry leading up to the financial crisis that transformed it. This course will start on .

Course At Glance

Length: 4 weeks
Effort: 3 hours/week
Subject: Managing My Financial Journey
Institution: Open University and Future learn
Languages: English
Price: Free
Certificate Available: Yes
Session: Course starts on 

Providers’ Details

The Open University (OU) is the largest academic institution in the UK and a world leader in flexible distance learning.
Since it began in 1969, the OU has taught more than 1.8 million students and has almost 220,000 current students, including more than 15,000 overseas.

About This Course

The dramatic events of the financial crisis in the late 2000s transformed the UK financial services industry. Long established institutions went out of business, others were forced into takeovers and only the intervention of governments worldwide – courtesy of eye-watering financial recovery packages – prevented the banking industry from implosion.

Why Take This Course?

This is a free online course. This MOOC will be offered with Video Transcripts in English.  Applicants can get a verified certificate.

Learning Outcomes

  • Discuss and understand the development of the financial services industry up to the 2007/08 global financial crisis.
  • Assess and appreciate how the financial services industry and the way it is regulated have changed since the financial crisis.
  • Apply and understand recent developments to financial and other investment products.
  • Assess and understand how the regulation of financial firms is conducted.
  • Assess and understand how sales of financial products are regulated and how this regulation aims to protect consumers.

Requirements

This course is intended for those with an interest in the financial services industry. The course does not require any previous experience of this subject, but prior study of Managing My Money may be an advantage.

Instructors

Martin Upton
I am Director of the True Potential Centre for the Public Understanding of Finance (PUFin) at the OU Business School. Previously I was Treasurer of Nationwide Building Society.

How To Join This Course

  • Go to the course website link
  • Sign Up At FutureLearn
  • Select a course and Join
  • Once a course has started, applicant will be able to access the course material
  • After the start date, students will be able to access the course by following the Go To Course link on My Courses page.
  • Applicants can buy, to show that they have completed a FutureLearn course.
  • On some FutureLearn courses, learners will be able to pay to take an exam to qualify for a Statement of Attainment. (These are university-branded, printed certificates that provide proof of learning on the course topic(s)).
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