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What is the Neurodiversity Hub?
Education & Development

What is the Neurodiversity Hub?

...Open University is to be open to people. Differences in how we think and function in the world can make access to education harder. This is one of the reasons we have developed this hub of resources to help you understand more about the differences in how people think and better understand the impact this has upon their lives. If you are neurodivergent yourself, you will...
Voices from the Global South: confronting climate coloniality
Society, Politics & Law

Voices from the Global South: confronting climate coloniality

...Open University. It was held at the RGS, London in June 2024. In her keynote Professor Sultana engages diverse perspectives on the climate crisis, emphasising the significance of incorporating insights from academic, policy, and indigenous advocacy groups in confronting ongoing climate coloniality. Watch her keynote in the series of seven videos below..._Find out more...
Learning at Work Week: The OpenLearn Intrapreneurship Hub
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Learning at Work Week: The OpenLearn Intrapreneurship Hub

...Open University, is delighted to return as a partner of Learning at Work Week (18-24 May 2026) again this year...This year our theme is intrapreneurship – the idea that employees and organisations can innovate from within an established business and solve problems using the skills of an entrepreneur.​ ​ If individuals and employers can harness intrapreneurial skills...
Antigone: List of Characters
History & The Arts

Antigone: List of Characters

...Open University's Classical Studies qualifications The heroine Antigone is one of the four children of Oedipus (her siblings are Ismene, Eteocles and Polyneices). A loyal daughter, she guided the blind Oedipus into exile before he died, and she’ll be equally faithful to her dead brother Polyneices. Oedipus was king of Thebes, a city in central Greece. He is famous in...
Welcome to the OpenLearn schools hub
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Welcome to the OpenLearn schools hub

...Open University, specifically for secondary school age students, and filtered by subjects that you will recognise from your curriculum...It’s all been selected as content that can support your studies, be that in developing study skills or as further learning around the curriculum. So while we can’t guarantee there is content on every topic you are studying, with 350+...
The world's busiest railway - Mumbai, India and rail
Science, Maths & Technology

The world's busiest railway - Mumbai, India and rail

...opened in 1887 when India was still part of the British Empire. The station was built right at the southern tip of the city to service Mumbai’s busy port. Passengers arrived off the boat and were transported into the Indian interior by rail. Being at the centre of the rail network, connecting the whole of India to the rest of the world, turned Mumbai into the economic...
The Great Fall: Berlin’s ‘Freedom’ concert
History & The Arts

The Great Fall: Berlin’s ‘Freedom’ concert

...opened before East Berliners had the opportunity to re-engage with one of the city’s most prestigious cultural institutions: the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. On Sunday 12 November 1989, Daniel Baremboim conducted a celebratory performance of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony in the orchestra’s home, the Philharmonie, to which all East Berliners were invited. But this...
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Get started with OpenLearn

...From creating an account and enrolling on courses, to earning digital badges and exploring bite-sized learning resources, this guide walks you through everything you need to start learning anywhere, anytime, at your own pace...Welcome to OpenLearn Welcome to OpenLearn – the home of free learning from The Open University. We deliver bite-sized learning...