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Early Childhood Resources
Education & Development

Early Childhood Resources

...education, health, psychology, and beyond. Explore free courses and articles to deepen your knowledge and take the next step in your learning journey...Early Childhood is a vibrant, interdisciplinary field that touches many areas including education, health, psychology, and sociology. Because of its broad reach, resources related to Early Childhood can be found in lots of...
50 years of sport and fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

50 years of sport and fitness

...has rapidly developed since 1969. In this series of articles, we look back at the advances made in technology and sports medicine, successes of British sportswomen, world records and changes in various sports and fitness activites...Discover how sport has changed in the past 50 years Now take a free related course Study with the OU Read more on sports and risk taking...
The impact of supporting Ukrainians with free resources on OpenLearn
Education & Development

The impact of supporting Ukrainians with free resources on OpenLearn

...Educational Resources (OER). Today, the platform has recorded over 110 million visitors since 2012. The audience is international, accessing 1,000 free courses and 8,000 articles, videos and activities. Courses have associated free certificates and digital badges with no start or finish dates. OpenLearn supports learners’ employment skills and subject mastery. Content...
The relativistic Universe
Science, Maths & Technology

The relativistic Universe

...technology, scientists can peer deeper into space than ever before. The audio tracks in this album feature Dr Robert Lambourne and Dr Stephen Serjeant of The Open University's Department of Physics and Astronomy. They introduce the origin of relativistic cosmology and share the latest ideas about the structure and evolution of the universe. Einstein’s general theory of...
The physical world: waves and relativity
Science, Maths & Technology

The physical world: waves and relativity

...technology, gives a simple introduction to wavelengths and looks back to the discovery of electromagnetism and the invention of radio. To demonstrate just how vital waves are, the two captains turn off their modern communication tools and try traditional methods of keeping in touch. In addition, two bonus video tracks explore Newton's laws of motion and Einstein’s...
Embarking on a career in cyber security
Digital & Computing

Embarking on a career in cyber security

...technologies that can be used to keep these systems safe from attack. As online systems become an ever important part of our daily lives, they are going to be increasingly attractive targets for a range of cyber attackers. This makes cyber security an important and exciting discipline to work in, with a variety of career paths depending on your interests and aptitude....
The Switch tells us a lot about Nintendo
Science, Maths & Technology

The Switch tells us a lot about Nintendo

...technology. Motion control is built into many aspects of some of the Switch’s key launch games, such as Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and needs to be precise and easy to use. Luckily, the system is very intuitive, especially in portable mode. The way the game uses motion control also counters one of its previous issues in that it doesn’t require players to...
How is identity data creating headaches for large companies?
Money & Business

How is identity data creating headaches for large companies?

...technology. The rate at which valuable identity information is flying out of the control of firms is alarming – more than 3,500 records per minute. Around 23% of the top data-breaches over the past five years contained consumers’ identity information – like names, dates-of-birth, addresses and account passwords. Corporate victims include big names such as Yahoo,...