#flcriticalthinking

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Ezegbe, 34, is a medical doctor and trainee paediatrician from Nigeria. Here he shares the skills gaps he identified within himself, how this hindered his professional life and how FutureLearn helped him to overcome challenges and is guiding him on his path to professional success. 

“In the course of my medical practice, I have come to identify certain deficiencies in which have tended to hinder some aspects of my professional life. Some of these include challenges in critical thinking, problem-solving, entrepreneurship and creativity. I have worked, for so long, to overcome these challenges. I had some discussion with my brother about these challenges and he introduced me to FutureLearn.

From my earliest lessons in Logical and Critical Thinking, Unleash Your Potential: Innovation and Enterprise, Healthcare Research: For Healthcare Professionals and others, I have learnt how human behaviour and scientific principles have been transforming human lives and transcending imaginary boundaries. This insight has touched me personally, it has reformed my thinking process, liberated my creative ability and is guiding me on the road to successful entrepreneurship. For this, I am grateful to FutureLearn.

I am happy to share my experience; the experience of a life well transformed by one of the best online learning platforms. FutureLearn is changing lives and I will definitely apply the skills I have acquired to reset the statistics of morbidity and mortality in many rural areas in my country and beyond. I hope to contribute immensely in helping my country to achieve its sustainable development goals. What is more? It is the entrepreneurship which this opportunity offers that deepens my joy and makes me feel so indebted to FutureLearn.”

Inspired by Ezegbe story?

Explore the courses he took:

Logical and Critical Thinking

Unleash Your Potential: Innovation and Enterprise

Healthcare Research: For Healthcare Professionals

Or, explore all FutureLearn courses.

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“Being out of work for so long can be very frustrating and disheartening. The FutureLearn courses were very impressive, well put together and from reputable universities with up to date tips and latest trends. I attended 3 interviews after completing the courses and they went a lot better than the previous ones”. 

Rachel is a Business Development Administrator from St Austell, Cornwall. In her spare time she also works on a voluntary basis for two learning institutions, one of which educates criminals, and is Editor of her parish magazine. She discovered FutureLearn through members of a book club she attends.

“Several of the women regularly spoke about amazing courses they were studying and spoke very highly of the FutureLearn site. I checked it out and signed up immediately. I find studying so satisfying and rewarding. Learning is fun and I was impressed with the variety of courses available”.

Rachel initially joined FutureLearn for fun and to feed her passion for learning but was made redundant in September 2015 and found it very difficult to find a job.

“I have a very high IQ but a car accident affected my ability to retain certain information and perhaps knocked my confidence in job interviews”.

Rachel completed 9 courses before signing up to How to Succeed at Writing Applications and How to Succeed at Interviews by The University of Sheffield.  She also purchased a certificate for Logical and Critical Thinking, “I thought it might help in a job environment”.

“Being out of work for so long can be very frustrating and disheartening. I attended 26 interviews with no success and could not understand why. I found the Job Centre’s application and interview advice dated and it did not seem to help me. The FutureLearn courses were very impressive, well put together and from reputable universities with up to date tips and latest trends. I attended 3 interviews after completing the courses and they went a lot better than the previous ones”.

Rachel found that FutureLearn allowed her to learn and study in a way that suited her, “my favourite thing about the FutureLearn platform is that I could go at my own pace and do it at home, for free, with good advice from tutors”.