Published 4th March 2025

u3a National Online Learning Resources

Welcome to March’s timetable of U3A online learning resources. Find out what’s on offer this month from, The use of artificial Intelligence in Healthcare to Introduction to Cryptic Crosswords and plenty more…

Online Learning – March 2025

The Lifecycle of a Laser: from prototype to making stars on Earth.– Monday 3 March. 10.00

Flight Inspirations.  – Tuesday 4 March, 10.00

Apps to help Seniors being out and about: A travel focus journey.  – Tuesday 4 March, 2.00

The Truth in Ten. – Wednesday 5 March, 10.00

How to best use Facebook. Wednesday 5 March, 1.00.

Growing up human: The Evolution of Childhood. – Thursday 6 March, 10.00.

The Gothic: Tracing the genre from Medieval architecture to Goths. –  Friday 7 March, 2.00.

Exploring World Faiths: Faith and Water.  Monday 10 March, 10.00.

Dorothy Levitt: The Fast Lady. – Tuesday 11 March, 11.00.

The use of artificial Intelligence in Health are. – Wednesday 12 March, 10.00.

Sustainable travel in Europe. – Wednesday 12 March, 7.00 pm.

From turmoil to joy: The sculpture of Auguste Rodin. –Thursday 13 March, 2.00.

Making your smart phone or tablet easier to use as you get older. – Tuesday 18 March, 2.00.

Laughter yoga with Judith. –Wednesday 19 March, 10.00

Recording and editing a video on your smart phone. –Wednesday 19 March, 1.00.

Cryptic Crosswords for beginners: 6 sessions course. –Thursday 20 March, 10.00.

Mindfulness and Meditation, Continuation Session.  -Thursday 20 March, 10.00.

Artificial intelligence news: March. –Friday 21 March, 10.00.

LEO – The world’s first business computer. – Friday 21 March, 2.00.

How many letters in the alphabet? –Monday 24 March, 2.00.

Lung disease in advancing age: Identifying new treatments. – Tuesday 25 March, 11.00.

Laughter yoga with Merrie Maggie: March. – Tuesday 25 March, 3.30.

A glimpse of Anglo India. – Wednesday 26 March, 10.00.

Secrets of the Human brain: Talk 3. –Thursday 27 March, 2.00.

Some of February’s offerings …

Podcasts – (released on the 17 of each month). 

Online Learning

*Notes

·         All classes/groups are delivered via Zoom.

·         To enrol you will be asked to use the  Eventbrite app.

·         Both apps are easy to install on your laptop, tablet, phone or PC.

·         Search for the app, where you find apps,  then install.

·         Once installed you will get reminders from your learning choice to join the meeting on Zoom.

·         For more information please visit: www.u3a.org.uk

Interest Groups Online

For those members unable to attend groups in person but would like to interact with others, the Online Interest Groups, may be for you. u3a – Interest Groups Online

Some have waiting lists, many have spaces.

Examples are; Dance Exercise, book clubs, astronomy, climate matters and many more.

There is an annual charge of £12.00,  and £6 after October 1st.

This does not provide membership of your local group.

One member’s experience trying out an online learning resource – Jane Evans writes re ‘Introduction to Cryptic Crosswords’

Inspired by Bridget’s helpful list of u3a’s events I signed up for ‘Introduction to Cryptic Crosswords’.  I immediately got an email confirming my ticket and telling me how I could proceed. 

I got an email reminder 2 days and 2 hours before plus an email telling me what to expect and, for this, a document to print out.

Logging in on my laptop 10 minutes before it started, Zoom decided it needed an update which was a bit nerve racking but it only took a couple of minutes.

I know nothing about cryptic crosswords but by the end of the talk I was aware that there was a code that clues adhere to, and had a reasonable understanding of 2 of those codes governing clues.

There is a ‘free’ 6 week course and I might actually sign up!  (Not totally free as a requirement is to buy the course book so an outlay of about £16 ish but we did get the first chapter at the end of today’s 2 hour session.

Zoom is intuitive.  For me, not sure I could only use a smart phone but a tablet should be fine.  If it was just a lecture and not interactive then maybe a mobile would be OK.

Why not pick something that interests you from the list and give it a go?

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