Our hubs bring together handpicked courses, videos, interactive activities and articles on a key theme. Whether you're looking to build skills, spark ideas or support others, there's something here for you. When you're ready, just click into a hub to start discovering free content that fits your interests.
Elective Home Education Hub
With more young people being educated outside of the traditional school classroom, we wanted to provide a collection of resources, tailored to support home educators, home-educated young people and other stakeholders in one easy-to-navigate collection.
A collection of free resources from The Open University - articles, videos, audio and courses tailored to support home educators, home-educated young people, and other stakeholders. All the content in this hub has been selected by academics across The Open University, specifically for home educators, home-educated young people, practitioners and others interested in home education.
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Sport and Fitness Hub
Sport and fitness is a key part of the OU’s formal learning offering, which is reflected in the wide array of free learning resources we’ve created. If you’re passionate about sport, be that competing, coaching or watching, this is a great introduction to OpenLearn.
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Sport and Fitness Hub
Welcome to the Sport and Fitness Hub. Enjoy exploring our range of free courses, articles and interactives to exercise your body and mind.
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What is the Sport and Fitness Hub?
What is the Sport and Fitness Hub and who is it for? Find out in this short article.
Employability Hub
If you want to boost your career prospects, whatever your job or the stage you’re at, then the Employability hub is packed with free resources to help you build confidence, develop in-demand skills and take your next step.
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Employability Hub
Welcome, in this hub you’ll find a range of FREE resources to help develop your employability. It is searchable by the ten components of the OU’s Employability Framework.
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How the OpenLearn employability hub can help you get ahead
Want to boost your career prospects? The OpenLearn Employability hub is packed with free resources to help you build confidence, develop in-demand skills, and take your next step - whatever stage you're at.
Sustainability Hub
If you’re passionate about creating a greener, fairer future, then explore our free, expert-led content that turns knowledge into action. From climate change and sustainable communities, to tackling poverty and hunger, it’s the perfect hub from which to begin your OpenLearn journey.
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Sustainability Hub
Learn about living sustainably with this collection of free courses, articles, interactives and films from The Open University.
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Why you should visit the OpenLearn sustainability hub
Discover why the OpenLearn sustainability hub is a must-visit resource for anyone passionate about creating a greener, fairer future. From climate change to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, explore free, expert-led content that turns knowledge into action.
Resources for Schools Hub
This hub was made for secondary school-age pupils and educators. Filtered by the subjects you will recognise, every hand-picked item will relate to the school curriculum, offering content to support and supplement learning inside the classroom, and independently.
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Resources for schools
Keep on top of your learning with these free resources from The Open University, created for secondary school age students across the UK.
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Welcome to the OpenLearn schools hub
All the content in this collection has been selected by academics across The Open University, specifically for secondary school age students, and filtered by subjects that you will recognise from your curriculum.
Race and Ethnicity Hub
Created in 2020, following high-profile news stories across the world, this hub is for everyone with an interest in the themes of race, racism and ethnicity. It now boasts well over 200 items of insightful and thought-provoking courses, articles, videos and interactive films.
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Race and Ethnicity Hub
This award-winning hub offers fresh perspectives on race, racism and ethnicity through free courses, articles, interactives and audio/visual materials.
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What this hub is about
What is the Race and Ethnicity hub and who is it for? Find out in this short video and article.
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Why this hub was created
Explore the reasons why the Race and Ethnicity hub was created.
Religion, Belief and Worldviews Hub
This new, but rapidly expanding hub is a place for exploring religion, spirituality and non-religion. It explores worldviews, offers insights into different cultures and beliefs through articles, courses and animations – a great collection to introduce you to the world of free learning.
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Religion, belief and worldviews hub
A place for exploring religion, spirituality and non-religion.
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Religion, Belief and Equalities
Religion and belief is important to equality in the United Kingdom. This animation explains how religion and belief is a protected characteristic, and how the term of “worldviews” might help us to understand this.
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Religion, Faith, Spirituality and Worldviews?
People use different terms to describe their beliefs about the world but what does religion, faith, spirituality and worldviews mean? This animation explores the themes further.
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