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.

Welcome to the Sport and Fitness Hub. Enjoy exploring our range of free courses, articles and interactives to exercise your body and mind.

What is the Sport and Fitness Hub and who is it for? Find out in this short article.

This free course, Leadership and followership, will help you to explore what makes a good leader, recognise common leadership challenges, and identify the skills you need to develop if you want to enhance your own leadership experience.

Build your confidence online with this free course designed to help you thrive in the digital world. Explore key skills such as managing your digital identity, staying safe, finding reliable information, and maintaining digital well-being — all while developing a critical, reflective approach to life online.

This free course, Everyday English 1, will develop and improve your essential speaking and listening, reading and writing skills for work, study and everyday life.

This course is for people who want to feel more confident about their learning skills. Informal in approach, the course builds on each person's own qualities, knowledge and skills to develop a deeper understanding of the nature of learning and of their own potential. It introduces some core ideas about learning and academic study, and some ...

Writing reports and assignments can be a daunting prospect. Learn how to interpret questions and how to plan, structure and write your assignment or report. This free course, Essay and report writing skills, is designed to help you develop the skills you need to write effectively for academic purposes.

Check out our series of one-minute animations exploring revision tips, beating procrastination, what’s involved in a remote exam and other study skills.

Grow your knowledge and have fun with this free collection of games, quizzes and other interactive activities.

Can you hold an image in your mind by just looking at it for a brief amount of time? Try our photographic memory test and see whether you have eidetic memory.

Can you piece together strands of historical evidence to work out what motivated the Roman Emperor, Hadrian, to travel so extensively?

Learn about living sustainably with this collection of free courses, articles, interactives and films from The Open University.

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.

Keep on top of your learning with these free resources from The Open University, created for secondary school age students across the UK.  

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.

This award-winning hub offers fresh perspectives on race, racism and ethnicity through free courses, articles, interactives and audio/visual materials.

What is the Race and Ethnicity hub and who is it for? Find out in this short video and article.

Explore the reasons why the Race and Ethnicity hub was created.

A place for exploring religion, spirituality and non-religion.

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.

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.