Developing your skills and competence
At Laurea, you can develop your skills and competence with the courses offered by Laurea Smart:
- Open UAS courses and working life oriented competence modules are open to everyone without previous education. Open UAS offers both free and paid online and face-to-face courses.
- Specialisation courses are paid education intended for those working in the working life and those who have already completed a university degree or otherwise acquired similar skills.
- Continuous education is company-specific education based on the company’s needs, as well as paid courses that are tailor made for employees of different organizations.
With the courses of the Open UAS you can develop and update your own skills, acquire completely new skills and get to know a new field. The studies of the Open UAS are open to anyone interested in studying, without previous education or age requirements.
Some of the courses may have prerequisite requirements, which are mentioned in the course information. For example, the prerequisite for studies for a Masters degree courses is a Bachelor’s degree or similar competence. Laurea’s degree students cannot register as students of the Open UAS of their own university of applied sciences.
In Laurea’s Open UAS, the courses are mainly from all Laurea’s Bachelor and Master degree programmes. All courses at the Open UAS are in content and level of requirements in accordance with the degree requirements, so the studies completed at Laurea’s Open UAS can be accepted as part of the degree at Laurea later.
The individual courses of the Open UAS are 1-10 credits and have different implementation methods:
- Scheduled online study : the course is conducted online, but includes participation online.
- Independent online study : the course is completed independently and at your own pace online within the course implementation time.
- Studying at campus : the course is taught on campus.
In the Open UAS course offering, there are also micro-courses, which are short online courses, podcasts, and videos that are less than 1 credit.
One credit corresponds to approx. 27 hours of work, so we recommend completing a maximum of 30 credits per semester.
Help with planning your studies
If you need help planning your Open UAS studies, you can book a personal study guidance time from the booking calendar.
Work oriented competence modules are broader course sets where you can develop professional skills or find new skills for working life. These modules consist of the courses in Laurea’s study offer and they range from 10 to 60 credits. The studies are mainly aimed at clients in working life, whose goal is to develop and expand their own competence.
Laurea’s specialisation education is paid courses that allow experts to strengthen and deepen their knowledge in their field.
Specialisation education is intended for those working in the working life, those who have already completed a university degree or have otherwise acquired similar skills.
Laurea’s continuing education courses are paid courses that complement the skills needed in working life.
Laurea wants to help organizations in a changing world, and support the development of personnel skills to meet demanding new tasks.
