Ever wanted to develop an on-line shopping application, build a content management system, create database-enabled websites? Perhaps your business is ready to make its mark on the World Wide Web. Then maybe you've come to the right place, for here you can learn about an exciting new range of short courses proposed for future development within the Faculty of Maths Computing and Technology.
The topics covered include:
- The design, development and management of web applications
- Client-side application development
- Server-side application development
- Databases within web applications
- Open source software for web applications
- Server administration, performance, and tuning
These are academic courses, not training courses. So whilst you'll encounter development tools such as JavaScript, ASP, PHP, and ColdFusion, the emphasis will always be on the broader issues of planning, designing, and managing. You'll learn something of the strengths and weaknesses of these various tools, you'll even be expected to use them within project work, but in the end the primary aim is to empower you to make decisions that matter.
The presentation schedule of the courses will permit students to complete the Certificate to two years. Details can be found via the FAQs page or the Start Dates page.
Any information you provide via this website will be used solely for the purposes of communicating information about the Faculty's Short Courses Programme. This information will not be used outside of the Open University and will not be shared with any third parties.
If after browsing through these pages you have any questions that remain unanswered, then drop an e-mail to the Director of the Certificate in Web Applications Development.
We are keen to promote the activities of students that have completed any of the Web Certificate courses, so we've devoted a page to carry links to their web sites.
If you want your site posted here please e-mail the Director with the details.
