This session University of Reading will be offering an open online version of course, ‘Heart Health: a Beginner’s Guide to Cardiovascular Disease.’ This course serves to improve your knowledge of how the heart works, the effects of heart disease and what you can do to avoid it.
This free online course will help you to explore the anatomy of the heart, explaining how the circulatory system works and what it does. The self-paced course starts on January 11, 2016.
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( votes)Course At A Glance
Length: 4 weeks
Effort: 3 hours pw
Subject: Cardiovascular Disease
Institution: University of Reading and FutureLearn
Languages: English
Price: Free
Certificate Available: Yes
Session: Starts on January 11, 2016.
Providers’ Details
The University of Reading is ranked in the top 1% of universities in the world with a reputation for teaching, research and enterprise.
The University aims to deliver a world-class experience to all of its learners. Teaching is research-led, so learners can benefit from the expertise and hands-on knowledge of teaching staff.
FutureLearn offers a diverse selection of courses from leading universities and cultural institutions from around the world. These are delivered one step at a time, and are accessible on mobile, tablet and desktop, so you can fit learning around your life.
About This Course
This four-week course aims to improve your knowledge of how the heart works, the effects of heart disease and what you can do to avoid it. We’ll explore the anatomy of the heart, explaining how the circulatory system works and what it does.
We’ll then introduce some of the most common cardiovascular diseases, such as heart attacks, strokes, high blood pressure (hypertension) and heart failure. We’ll help you understand their effects on the body, why they happen and what can be done to prevent them. We’ll also highlight some wonderful resources from the British Heart Foundation including up to date statistics, patient leaflets and videos describing many of the tests that cardiac patients undergo.
In the final week, we’ll examine the risk factors for heart disease and what you can do keep your heart healthy.
Why Take This Course?
The course is very useful to all students. This is a free online course available for non-english natives. This course will explore the anatomy of the heart, explaining how the circulatory system works and what it does. Applicants will be introduced to some of the most common cardiovascular diseases, such as heart attacks, strokes, high blood pressure (hypertension) and heart failure. The course will help you to understand their effects on the body, why they happen and what can be done to prevent them.
Learning Outcomes
Applicants will have Hands-on exercises to understand your own heart. Each week you’ll have the opportunity to get hands on and do practical activities, helping you to apply the knowledge you’ll gain on the course, to better understand your own heart.
Instructors
– Natasha Barrett (Lead Educator)
Lecturer in cardiovascular biology and haematology
University of Reading & the lead educator for Heart Health
Requirements
This beginner’s course is aimed at anyone with an interest in how the heart works and the diseases that commonly affect it. It will help if you have a basic understanding of human biology, but we hope that we can explain things in a way that will be easy for anyone to understand. If you get stuck, you can always ask questions in the comments and other learners may be able to help you.
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, you will be able to access the course material
- After the start date, you will be able to access the course by following the Go To Course link on your My Courses page.
- Applicants can buy, to show that you’ve 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)).
