Wondering what it’s like to study online with us? Try one of our free tasters and get a glimpse of how a lecturecast within our virtual learning environment (VLE) works.
The purpose-built VLE is home to all our course materials, assessments, module lecturecasts, discussion forums and more. Plus, it’s available 24/7 – so you can study whenever and wherever suits you.
Choose from one of the free tasters below and experience just what it’s like to be an Essex Online student.
*Please note, these tasters are demonstrations only and may not appear in the full version of our courses. They do not carry any credits.
Undergraduate tasters
| Taster | Subject area |
|---|---|
| The purpose of financial decision making | Business |
| Introduction to consumer behaviour | Business |
| Strategic planning | Health |
| Introduction to Criminal Law | Law |
| Emotion and Cognition | Psychology |
Postgraduate tasters
| Taster | Subject |
|---|---|
| Data collection sources and methods | Business |
| Decision making and consumer engagement | Business |
| The impact of infectious disease on public health | Health |
| Global public health priorities | Health |
| Everyday politics in healthcare | Health |
| Introduction to the World Trade Organization | Law |
| Approaches to security design | Computing |
| Defining crime and deviance | Criminology |
| Meta theories | Education |
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