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Money & Business
Understand how interest works on your savings account
Want to know more about how interest earnings build up (or 'compound') on a savings account? This short video uses an example to show how it all works.
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Science, Maths & Technology
Building Stories
Meet the architects and explore the stories behind some of Britain's most iconic buildings.
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Science, Maths & Technology
Vaccination
Vaccinations are now considered a part of everyday life, but how do they work? Vaccination is a free course that will help those with a background in biology understand the historical development of vaccination, assess the various types of vaccines used today, examine their production and explore the limitations that are placed on vaccination ...
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History & The Arts
Shall I Compare Thee? Poetry, Education, Seduction - An OpenMinds talk
Professor Richard Danson Brown explores poetry, comparison and education in a lecture for The Open University.
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Nature & Environment
Do animals really raise human babies as their own?
Myth, history and popular culture tells of children raised by wolves and more. Do these stories have any basis in truth?
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Education & Development
The secret history of teenage bedrooms
In this transcript from Thinking Allowed, Laurie Taylor and guests discuss the role of the teenage bedroom across history - with a little help from The Beach Boys.
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Money & Business
How can we say Bitcoin is overvalued when we don't know how to value it?
One view of the rising cryptocurrency: We can't say it's a bubble when we don't really understand the value of the currency.
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Money & Business
Mortgage vs rent
The true cost of home ownership when compared with renting is revealed in this interview with Ray Wright.
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Education & Development
Interdisciplinarity: A collection
Bringing together the best of interdisciplinary resources from across OpenLearn – could an "Open" qualification be right for you?
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Do I have mental health problems and should I get some help?
How do we recognise if a reaction to a stressor has developed into a mental health problem? Here's a five point guide...
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Can protective headgear increase the risk of injury to rugby players?
While cuts and bruises may be avoided, new research suggests that wearing headgear during rugby can put players at greater risk. Andrew Barnes explains his research.
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Languages
Methods in Motion: Inside Outsiders and Outside Insiders
In today’s 'Methods in Motion' blog, the ordeal of conducting research interviews in imperfect German is turned to advantage by Sara de Jong in trying to understand how participants identify as ‘insiders’ or ‘outsiders’.