Free Study Game Development

What's it about?

There are lots of different skills that go into game development. This course is about key technical concepts in game development, and has been developed for people of many different backgrounds and skills. Some programming experience would be nice but is not required.

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What's involved?

MODULE 1ESSENTIALS OF GAME DESIGN	8 videos, 7 quizzes, 1 assessment	29 May - 4 Jun
MODULE 2MAKING IT HAPPEN	9 videos, 8 quizzes, 1 assessment	5 Jun - 11 Jun
MODULE 3RULES, MOVEMENT AND INTERACTION	8 videos, 7 quizzes, 1 assessment	12 Jun - 18 Jun
MODULE 4AI FOR GAMES	9 videos, 8 quizzes, 1 assessment	19 Jun - 25 Jun

What will I learn?

• Essential game design elements and the role of a game designer
• Key game development stages and principles of agile game development
• How games are like magic and real-time systems
• That programming is made up of simple steps, and how procedure and object oriented programming can help us structure our game code
• How messages and events are key concepts in games at different levels within game architecture
• About graphs and other data structures that help represent game worlds and characters
• How a game design can be described, modelled and implemented as simple game architecture
• About the emergence of game engines and the relationship of games to other data-driven applications, including concurrent and distributed architectures
• How to implement games using iterative step-by-step processes, by selecting, implementing and testing
• That rules are central to games, and that game balance relates to fairness and bias for players
• How physics can be used to create realistic force-based movement, for individual characters and groups
• About AI techniques that can add interesting behaviour to game characters, including decision making, action planning and path planning

This course requires approximately 2 - 4 hours of study per week, but can vary depending on the student. This includes watching videos, and taking quizzes and assessments.The total video time for this course is 3 Hours 28 minutes.

If you pass this course you'll receive a Certificate of Achievement. While this certificate isn't a formal qualification or credit, you can use it to demonstrate your interest in learning about this area to potential employers or educational institutions.

Where to from here?

If you love this course, why not take your studies further? Here are some accredited qualifications that could help you achieve your goals.

UNDERGRADUATE

• Bachelor of Business Information Systems
• Bachelor of Computer Science (Professional) with a major in Games Development
• Bachelor of Computer Science with a major in Games Development
• Bachelor of Games and Interactivity
• Bachelor of Games and Interactivity (Professional)
• Web Play, Online Games and Gamification

POSTGRADUATE

• Graduate Certificate of Information Technology
• Graduate Diploma of Information Technology
• Master of Information Technology
• Master of Technology (Business Systems)

Where could this lead me?

If you're wondering what your future could look like in this area, here are some potential careers you could head towards.

• Games programmer
• Games developer
• Software developer
• Games engineer

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Learn How To Study Mining Engineering Free of Charge

What's it about?

This course will provide an overview of the different phases involved in the mining process.

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What's involved?

MODULE 1THE MINING PROCESS	9 videos, 8 quizzes, 1 assessment	29 May - 4 Jun
MODULE 2MINING GEOMECHANICS	10 videos, 9 quizzes, 1 assessment	5 Jun - 11 Jun
MODULE 3SURFACE MINING	10 videos, 9 quizzes, 1 assessment	12 Jun - 18 Jun
MODULE 4UNDERGROUND MINING	10 videos, 9 quizzes, 1 assessment	19 Jun - 25 Jun

What will I learn?

• The steps in the mining process from mineral exploration to closure
• Fundamentals of Rock Mechanics. That is, stress-strain, rock strength, effect of discontinuities, rock testing, stress in the ground and instabilities
• Fundamentals of surface and underground mining including terminology, types of operations, economics and safety

This course requires approximately 2 - 4 hours of study per week, but can vary depending on the student. This includes watching videos, and taking quizzes and assessments. The total video time for this course is approximately 3 hours and 43 minutes.

If you pass this course you'll receive a Certificate of Achievement. While this certificate isn't a formal qualification or credit, you can use it to demonstrate your interest in learning about this area to potential employers or educational institutions.

Where to from here?

If you love this course, why not take your studies further? Here are some accredited qualifications that could help you achieve your goals.

UNDERGRADUATE

• Associate Degree in Engineering

POSTGRADUATE

• Graduate Diploma in Extractive Metallurgy
• Master of Engineering (Civil and Transport)

Where could this lead me?

If you're wondering what your future could look like in this area, here are some potential careers you could head towards.

• Civil Engineer
• Mining Engineer

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Free Study Climate Change

What's it about?

Climate change is the biggest global challenge the human race has ever faced. Our insatiable demand for energy from fossil fuels is changing the atmosphere, and in turn changing our climate. Climate change is already affecting the physical surface of the earth, the environment that provides our life support, our food supply, economy and society. These changes will accelerate over the next few decades

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What's involved?

MODULE 1CLIMATE CHANGE: WHY SHOULD WE CARE?	10 videos, 9 quizzes, 1 assessment	29 May - 4 Jun
MODULE 2WHAT’S HAPPENING AND WHY?	10 videos, 9 quizzes, 1 assessment	5 Jun - 11 Jun
MODULE 3WILL WE COPE?	8 videos, 7 quizzes, 1 assessment	12 Jun - 18 Jun
MODULE 4FIXING IT	10 videos, 9 quizzes, 1 assessment	19 Jun - 25 Jun

What will I learn?

• Why human activities are changing the climate
• How our knowledge of science underpins what we know about the past, present and future climate
• What our future might hold, and why we should care about it
• Why an increase of 2 or 4°C in global average temperature is important
• How the changing climate is affecting, and will continue to affect, the incidence and impacts of extreme weather events
• The role of extreme events and the effect it has on our species, ecosystems, coastlines, food supply, health, infrastructure, economy and security
• How climate change is likely to exacerbate existing problems of social inequality
• How climate change will interact with other pressures on global systems such as ecosystem degradation and human population growth
• Why fixing the climate problem is urgent, and how the timing of solutions is critical
• The relative contributions that different emission reduction solutions have had on solving the climate problem

This course requires approximately 2 - 4 hours of study per week, but can vary depending on the student. This includes watching videos, and taking quizzes and assessments. The total video time for this course is approximately 3 hours 30 minutes.

If you pass this course you'll receive a Certificate of Achievement. While this certificate isn't a formal qualification or credit, you can use it to demonstrate your interest in learning about this area to potential employers or educational institutions.

Where to from here?

If you love this course, why not take your studies further? Here are some accredited qualifications that could help you achieve your goals.

UNDERGRADUATE

• Bachelor of Arts (Sustainable Development)
• Bachelor of Environment

POSTGRADUATE

• Master of Environmental Law

Where could this lead me?

If you're wondering what your future could look like in this area, here are some potential careers you could head towards.

• Sustainability project officer
• Sustainability / Climate policy officer
• Urban development officer
• Sustainability manager
• Environmental and social sustainability consultant
• Sustainability project manager
• Sustainability officer
• Environmental and social sustainability officer

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Learn How To Study Astronomy Free of Charge

What's it about?

What was the Big Bang? How do black holes work? Could there be life elsewhere in the Universe? In this course we’ll address those topics, as well as gaining some insight into how great scientific discoveries were made, and what's involved in scientific research.

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What's involved?

MODULE 1GREAT DISCOVERIES IN ASTRONOMY	9 videos, 8 quizzes, 1 assessment	29 May - 4 Jun
MODULE 2UNLOCKING THE SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE: HOW WE DO SCIENCE	9 videos, 8 quizzes, 1 assessment	5 Jun - 11 Jun
MODULE 3BUILDING THE WORLD'S LARGEST SCIENCE EXPERIMENT	9 videos, 8 quizzes, 1 assessment	12 Jun - 18 Jun
MODULE 4ANSWERING BIG QUESTIONS WITH THE SQUARE KILOMETRE ARRAY	7 videos, 6 quizzes, 1 assessment	19 Jun - 25 Jun

What will I learn?

• How people over the ages have tried to understand the world around them
• How we have developed our current picture of the Universe
• What the Universe looks like on different scales - from the Earth and the Solar System right up to the largest-scale structure of the universe
• Key theories in astronomy and the key individuals behind them
• How the universe has evolved and what new discoveries we are finding through the use of new technologies
• Some insight into the big questions we hope to find answers for, such as whether we are alone in the universe

This course requires approximately 2 - 4 hours of study per week, but can vary depending on the student. This includes watching videos, and taking quizzes and assessments. The total video time for this course is approximately 2 hours 42 minutes.

If you pass this course you'll receive a Certificate of Achievement. While this certificate isn't a formal qualification or credit, you can use it to demonstrate your interest in learning about this area to potential employers or educational institutions.

Where to from here?

If you love this course, why not take your studies further? Here are some accredited qualifications that could help you achieve your goals.

UNDERGRADUATE

• Bachelor of Science (Physical Sciences Pre-major)

POSTGRADUATE

• Graduate Diploma of Science (Astronomy)
• Physics Honours (4th Year)

VOCATIONAL

• Astronomy 101

Where could this lead me?

If you're wondering what your future could look like in this area, here are some potential careers you could head towards.

• Astronomer

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Study Agriculture and the World We Live In (Agri) Free Of Charge

What's it about?

You will learn about the world’s population and the crucial role of agriculture in feeding the steadily increasing number of people. You will then see how climate and soils dictate the types of farms we see in different regions and countries.

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What's involved?

MODULE 1GLOBAL FOOD PRODUCTION	10 videos, 9 quizzes, 1 assessment	29 May - 4 Jun
MODULE 2HOW FARMS WORK	10 videos, 9 quizzes, 1 assessment	5 Jun - 11 Jun
MODULE 3THE BUSINESS OF FARMING	10 videos, 9 quizzes, 1 assessment	12 Jun - 18 Jun
MODULE 4AGRICULTURAL SUSTAINABILITY	10 videos, 9 quizzes, 1 assessment	19 Jun - 25 Jun

What will I learn?

• The size of the world’s population and how quickly it is growing
• Whether more people live in cities than in rural areas and why this is important
• The quantities and types of food we produce around the world
• How food production is becoming globalised and the implications of this for farmers and consumers
• How climate, soils and fertilisers affect the way we farm
• The crucial role of soil biology in our farming systems
• How different cropping farms operate and the role of crop rotations
• The big differences between pasture based and feedlot systems of animal production
• Some of the issues associated with the intensive production of animals such as pigs and poultry
• The arguments for and against organic farming and the use of genetically modified plants and animals in agriculture.
• The vast array of businesses that are associated with agriculture
• The new information technologies that are transforming the way we farm
• How agriculture can have adverse effects on the environment
• The challenges that might be posed by global climate change

This course requires approximately 2 - 4 hours of study per week, but can vary depending on the student. This includes watching videos, and taking quizzes and assessments. The total video time for this course is approximately 4 hours 11 minutes.

If you pass this course you'll receive a Certificate of Achievement. While this certificate isn't a formal qualification or credit, you can use it to demonstrate your interest in learning about this area to potential employers or educational institutions.

Where to from here?

If you love this course, why not take your studies further? Here are some accredited qualifications that could help you achieve your goals.

UNDERGRADUATE

• Bachelor of AgriScience (BAgriScience)
• Bachelor of Arts (Sustainable Development)
• Bachelor of Science (Agricultural Science)
• Bachelor of Science (Animal Science)

Where could this lead me?

If you're wondering what your future could look like in this area, here are some potential careers you could head towards.

• Agricultural consultant
• Farmer
• Rural banker
• Stock and station agent

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