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Digital & Computing
Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online
Protect your digital life with this free course introducing the essentials of cyber security. Learn how to spot online threats, keep your information safe and understand key topics like malware, network security and identity theft — helping you stay secure at home, at work, and beyond.
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Education & Development
An introduction to artificial intelligence
Artificial Intelligence (AI) represents great opportunity, but also significant disruption for modern societies and cultures. This free online short course investigates the historical, ethical and social issues surrounding this technology. It is aimed at people interested in understanding where this technology has come from, the kinds of ...
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History & The Arts
Who gets to be a human? Religion in colonial histories and Indigenous resistance
The global challenge of growing inequalities is intricately linked to the distinction made between those historically regarded as human and those who have not been. The division between ‘civilised’ and ‘non-civilised/primitive’ played a vital role in justifying the colonisation and enslavement of those who were deemed ‘lesser human’, ‘other ...
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Education & Development
How to become an ethical researcher
Why think about effective informed consent and assent and what do we mean?
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Education & Development
Closing the awarding gap: practical actions to support Black and minority ethnic students
Drawing on recent research and Open University scholarship (2020–2024), Rajvinder Samra explores how educators can help to close the awarding gap for Black and minority ethnic students.
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Education & Development
Reimagining professional learning: conversations across perspectives
Professional learning is often framed as a structured, measurable process—courses attended, certificates earned, hours logged. But what if we reimagined it as something more human, more relational and more embedded in the everyday?
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Education & Development
Datblygwch eich brand personol
Dewch o hyd i adnoddau i’ch helpu chi ddeall beth sy’n eich gwneud chi’n unigryw - a sut i rannu hynny gyda’r byd.
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Education & Development
Build your personal brand
Discover tools to help you to understand what makes you uniquely you - and how to share it with the world.
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Education & Development
Learning Design resources to support embedding sustainability competencies and learning outcomes in course materials
Check out this set of free resources to help prompt initial thoughts and discussions about embedding sustainability in course design.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Children and young people's mental health: a collection of free resources
Explore our collection of free resources focusing on the issue of mental health and wellbeing when it comes to children and young people.
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Languages
Year of the Horse: Chinese Lunar New Year
Happy Chinese New Year of the Horse! As the Lunar New Year approaches once again, millions of people across the world prepare to welcome a new zodiac cycle with festive celebrations, family gatherings, and expressions of hope for the year ahead.
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Education & Development
Neurodiversity Hub
Exploring how minds work differently and brilliantly. This hub brings together free OpenLearn courses, articles and personal stories on autism, ADHD, dyslexia and more.