Science, Maths & Technology
Interested in a STEM career?
Browse our collection of FREE resources offering useful skills and solutions to help you get into a STEM career or return to one.
Education & Development
Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)
...resources for school governors in Wales...Welcome This course provides a brief introduction to the field of inclusive education. You can also access the other courses in this collection: An introduction to leadership for governors and Teamwork: an introduction for school governors. Regardless of the type of school in which you find yourself, their approach to inclusive...
Health, Sports & Psychology
Sex and the Natsal surveys – how do you compare?
...Resources (OERs). Specifically OERs derived from the National Surveys of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal)...Find out more about The Open University’s statistics qualifications. Transcript The first is an animation - “5 facts you didn’t know about sex in Britain” which can be viewed above, followed by our interactive - “No sex please, we’re British!”,...
Education & Development
Pineapples and Pashto: building intercultural competence through Peace Education
...human beings carry out in their everyday relationships with each other. What is intercultural competence? Peace and intercultural competence are intermingled in United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4:7, which calls for the ‘…promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship, and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s...
Education & Development
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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OpenLearn Ireland
Libraries NI learning hub
This OpenLearn hub, prepared in collaboration with Libraries NI, features a collection of free online resources designed to support mental health, wellbeing and learning and development.
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Nature & Environment
On the inside of the rebellion against climate change
...humanity, and what social sciences and psychology could be said to be good for. Following David Attenborough’s screening of Climate change the facts on BBC, a message is becoming ever clearer – humanity and life on earth are in peril from the catastrophic potential of climate change that is caused by human activity on the planet. As David Attenborough highlighted, the...
Languages
Language in the real world
...human and (other) animal communicative behaviours. We look at the ‘design features’ of language and whether any can be recognised as unique to human languages. We then move on to the disciplines of linguistics and applied linguistics before considering different puzzles that knowledge about language can help to resolve. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from...