You can complete one short course as a standalone credential or stack multiple to build towards a full postgraduate degree at Deakin. Want to know more?
Course overview
Ready to take on the next challenge in your career? Equip yourself with technical skills in forecasting and quantitative methods for evidence-based decision making. In this short course you'll learn the foundations and applications of forecasting in business and economic contexts and understand how to identify and utilise forecasting solutions.
After completing this stackable short course, you’ll be able to apply these skills immediately in your workplace.
- Problem solving skills for forecasting modelling.
- Data analytics skills using BigML software.
- Communication skills for decision making in economics.
Entry requirements
To be successful we recommend you are proficient in English and have a minimum of an undergraduate degree in a related field or significant work experience.
Industry experts
This industry-led stackable short course is co-designed with industry experts. Together, we’ve designed a course where you’ll gain skills that you can apply immediately in your workplace.
Professor Mehmet Ulubasoglu is head of the Department of Economics at Deakin Business School. Mehmet has taught several courses in the undergraduate, PhD and executive MBA programs at Deakin, including business and financial forecasting, applied econometrics for economics and finance, and analytical tools in economics and finance.
Dr David Akman has more than two decades of research, teaching, consulting and professional work experience in data science and analytics, particularly in forecasting, machine learning, and mathematical modelling and optimisation.
Hemant Pullabhotla is a lecturer of economics in the Department of Economics, Deakin Business School.
Shuddha Rafiq is a senior lecturer of economics in the Department of Economics, Deakin Business School.
Earn a digital credential
We’ve teamed up with Credly to award you a digital credential when you complete this industry-recognised stackable short course, plus you can bank the credit towards a Deakin postgraduate degree. You can also share your digital credential on social and professional platforms.
Course structure
How you'll learn
Go at your own pace with support from your educator and fellow learners during online learning activities and discussions. Complete your course within 6 weeks, including the assessment, or take extra time and use the regular assessment submission windows to complete within 24 weeks of your enrolment.
What you’ll learn
During the short course you’ll:
- learn the foundations and applications of forecasting in business
- identify when forecasting is suitable for your business problem
- explore different forecasting methods and models
- discuss and evaluate the outputs of models.
How you're assessed
You’ll need to submit a 2000-word business report with forecasting analysis using BigML.
Reshaping university education
An innovative learning structure delivered by a leading university. With more than 40 years’ experience in distance and online education, we’re proud to be adding this unique study format to our courses, providing you with more choice to further your career and fulfil your lifelong learning needs.
Ready to enrol?
It takes five minutes to register your details and sign up for a stackable short course. We have discounts available for Deakin alumni, staff and group bookings. Enrol today and get the skills you need to take your career further, faster.
Did you know you can apply credit to a postgraduate degree?
Unsure what degree you want to study? Study two short courses that interest you and apply both as credit towards a wide range of postgraduate degrees at Deakin – from business administration to nursing, sustainability to communication and more.*
*Subject to successful completion of the short course and meeting Deakin’s award course admission and selection requirements, including English language proficiency requirements.
Limits on elective space in a destination degree are outlined in specific degrees’ course rules within the Deakin University Handbook. Typically, a maximum of four stackable short courses can be used as credit (2 credit points) towards a masters; and two stackable short courses can be used as credit (1 credit point) towards graduate certificates and diplomas.
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