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60 second adventures: Behind the scenes
Science, Maths & Technology

60 second adventures: Behind the scenes

...Open University's Open degree. Narrated by David Mitchell, the 60 Second Adventures animation series began in 2011 with ’60 Second Adventures in Thought’ exploring paradoxes and thought experiments such as The Grandfather paradox and Schrodinger’s Cat. Since then the series has explored economics, religion, astronomy and now microgravity. This short video features...
Study online and find a subject that inspires you
Education & Development

Study online and find a subject that inspires you

...and postgraduate courses with The Open University can be found here and there's information on fees, funding and bursaries here. Nearly all of our undergraduate courses have no pre-entry requirements. The PFA NI can support you through degree level study, even without the need to have studied or completed GCSEs/A-Levels (or equivalent). Discover more content like this...
Skills to succeed in the workplace
Education & Development

Skills to succeed in the workplace

...Open University to provide a selection of free training courses to enhance your career prospects and opportunities...Football clubs across Scotland play a pivotal role in supporting their local communities. The Open University in Scotland is working in partnership with the following organisations to support the work they're doing to improve employment outcomes for young...
A Buen Puerto: Fast Forward in Spanish
Languages

A Buen Puerto: Fast Forward in Spanish

...Open University course L314 A buen puerto: advanced Spanish... Introduction Introduction to the series of programmes Radio Programme 1: Astronomy in Colombia A radio-style programme about astronomy from Cali in Colombia featuring experts and some phone-in callers Radio programme 1: English borrowings in Spanish A talk about the words which Spanish has borrowed from...
Space scientist: John Zarnecki
Science, Maths & Technology

Space scientist: John Zarnecki

...Astronomy at The Open University. In the course of his 30 year career, Zarnecki has taken part in several high profile space probe missions. In this album, he recalls the landing of the Huygens probe on Titan, explains why space has become essential for communication and navigation today and describes technology developed by the space programme that's set to improve our...
British Science Week
Science, Maths & Technology

British Science Week

...courses, games, animations and more...British Science Week is a ten-day programme of science, technology, engineering and maths events and activities across the UK for people of all ages, coordinated by the British Science Association. To find out what is going on across the UK to celebrate, visit the British Science Week Event Calendar and keep up to date by following...
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OpenLearn and schools
Education & Development

OpenLearn and schools

...Open University. There are no forums on OpenLearn courses but all learners with an account can do the following: leave a review for a course or comment on an article edit their OpenLearn profile. As a teacher, you can use our OpenLearn content in several ways: to assist your pupils in topic mastery. OpenLearn provides learning in a variety of formats: articles, courses,...
Soft skills training
Money & Business

Soft skills training

...courses from OpenLearn, endorsed by Google...This content is associated with The Open University Open Degree qualification. The phrase ‘soft skills’ incorporates a wide variety of personality traits, communication and people skills, social attitudes and emotional intelligence. These qualities (also known as ‘core skills’) are increasingly important for success in...