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Gain the skills to manage your personal finances: managing budgets, debts, investments, property purchase, pensions and insurance.
With real incomes falling and personal debt at a record high, there has never been a better time to improve your personal financial skills – Managing My Money aims to do just that.
This free online course starts by giving you practical guidance on how to compile a budget and use it to make good decisions about your spending. You’ll explore debts and investments, and find out how mortgages are used to finance home ownership. The critical issue of pension planning is explained, with guidance on different pension products.
The course concludes by examining different types of insurance and offers practical advice on how to make rational decisions about which insurance products to buy.
Using up-to-the minute data from the UK, you’ll develop financial skills and approaches that are relevant globally. The course is rich in high-quality text, images, video, audio and interactive elements to support your learning.
课程大纲
This course is intended for those with an interest in developing their personal financial skills to make good decisions when managing their finances and buying financial products. The course does not require any previous experience of studying this subject.
教师
- Martin Upton
内容设计师
开放大学是一所英国公立大学，成立于 1969 年。它是英国唯一一所远程教育大学。其总部位于白金汉郡的米尔顿凯恩斯，但设有 13 个地区中心。该大学授予学士学位、文凭和证书，以及硕士学位和博士学位。
2011 年，该校学生人数超过 25 万，是英国最大的教育机构1。大多数学生在英国，但也有超过 25000 名学生在欧洲、非洲和东亚学习。自建校以来，已有 300 多万名学生在此学习。2005 年，英国政府在英格兰、威尔士和北爱尔兰进行了一次全国学生调查，结果显示该校学生的满意度最高。
平台
FutureLearn est une plate-forme d'apprentissage proposant des formations en ligne ouvertes à tous (MOOC)
Fondée en Décembre 2012, la société est entièrement détenue par l'Open University à Milton Keynes, en Angleterre.
Elle est la 1ère plateforme offrant des MOOC au Royaume-Uni, avec à son actif plus d'une cinquantaine d'universités partenaires provenant du Royaume Uni mais aussi du reste du monde.
FutureLearn se différencie également par des partenariats avec des entités non-universitaires comme le British Museum, le British Council, la British Library et la national Film and Television School.
