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Education & Development
Life Launchpad
Life Launchpad brings together a range of engaging resources for secondary school aged pupils.
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Education & Development
Succeed with Extended Project Qualifications (EPQs)
Make a success of your EPQ by using the OpenLearn EPQ Vision Tool. This tool will support you at the very beginning of your Extended Project by helping you to decide what your project will be, through to the next steps of researching and monitoring. There’s also some handy guidance on how to present your final project. Each of the headings ...
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Education & Development
EPQs: help and tips
The Extended Project Qualification (EPQ) is an opportunity for you to work independently on a topic that really interests you or that you think is important. It is equivalent to an A-level qualification. These articles are designed to help you if you are enrolled on an EPQ.
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History & The Arts
The Truth of Ghost Stories
Ghost stories might send a shiver down our spines but can they also reveal deeper truths? Dr Emily Bullock, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at The Open University, explores how supernatural fiction can reveal the very real emotions and experiences that shape our lives.
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History & The Arts
Writing ghosts: Gothic poetry from York
Can a haunted location inspire Gothic writing? Poet Jennie E. Owen spends a night in one of York’s most notoriously haunted pubs, exploring the city’s ghostly history and discovering how a sense of place can bring the macabre to life on the page.
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History & The Arts
What does it mean to be Welsh?
Take a look beyond familiar ideas of Wales and Welsh identity.
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History & The Arts
Fantasy fiction: an introduction
What happens to literature when it moves beyond the confines of the real? When it uses its power to create “other” worlds that no longer obey the rules of this one? Discover more about fantasy fiction, a genre that is as old as storytelling and yet constantly reinventing itself.
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Science, Maths & Technology
Angel Breed
Understand the basic rules of genetics and see if you can breed the rarest fish in our biology game.
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Education & Development
The questioning human in an AI world
As generative AI becomes part of everyday learning, how can we make sure human thinking doesn’t get lost? Explore how students and educators can use AI critically and constructively, while keeping questioning, reflection and authentic learning at the heart of education.
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History & The Arts
Have you ever wanted to write?
Everyone has a story worth telling. Whether you dream of writing a novel, memoir, travel journal, script or poem, this collection will spark your creativity, help you develop your writing skills, and support you to take the first steps towards bringing your ideas to life.
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Science, Maths & Technology
15 minutes on Mars
Have you ever looked up into the night sky at the red planet and wanted to know more? Now here’s your chance to explore Mars.
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Nature & Environment
Studying mammals: Plant predators
From the mouse-deer to the elephant, plant eaters come in all shapes and sizes. But how do they manage to flourish on a salad diet? In this free course, Studying mammals: Plant predators, we will examine the special features that allow them to extract their nutrients from leaves, and see how some plants protect themselves from these predators. ...