Education & Development
Dr David Hann on how to succeed as a distance learner
The Open University's Dr David Hann tells you how to become a successful distance learner in this extended interview from 'Go the Distance'...Transcript
Science, Maths & Technology
Moon Trumps: Pitch satellite against satellite
Become a master of the universe by winning Moon Trumps...Find out more about The Open University's Natural Sciences courses. Play full-screen
Education & Development
53 things you never knew about OpenLearn
...Open University is 53 on 23rd April 2022, to coincide with the celebrations we put together 53 surprising things about the OU's FREE online learning resources......ABOUT OPENLEARN OpenLearn was born in 2006, the same year Bernard Matthews discontinued Turkey Twizzlers (thanks for that, Jamie Oliver) and Pluto got declassed as a planet. We’ve had more than 100 million...
Health, Sports & Psychology
Meet the OU experts behind 'Hospital'
...Open University's academics Julie Messenger and Dr Rajvinder Samra advised on our co-production 'Hospital'; here's what they think of the series...[hospital staff with a machine] Julie Messenger, academic consultant on the programme and Head of Nursing at The Open University, on what makes Hospital different from other programmes: "Unlike other hospital programmes which...
Nature & Environment
Information blackout at the Council of Europe?
...open to public access” if these documents are over 30 years old. In 2001, this same body went further by establishing such access rights for many documents immediately (if unclassified), after one year (if “restricted”) or after ten years (if “confidential”). It is frankly astonishing that an organisation so formally committed to the human rights, democracy and...
Science, Maths & Technology
Golden Globe Ocean Race: Drifting continents and a stormy passage
...opening and closure of oceans, also known as gateways, and the associated movements of continents called . At times, continental drift has resulted in the continents fragmenting into many smaller land masses as now, whilst at other times collisions have assembled vast supercontinents with immense mountain chains along their joins. Such constant rearrangement has had a...
Science, Maths & Technology
Dangoor Education
...Open University and Dangoor Education, and provides links to the free courses we have created together...[The Open University logo, a blue shield] The Open University (OU) has a mission to be open to people, places, methods and ideas. We promote educational opportunity and social justice by providing high-quality education to all who wish to realise their ambitions and...
Education & Development
Rebecca Ferguson on Working Collaboratively
The Open University's Rebecca Ferguson explains the why it's important for long distance learners to work together in this extended interview from 'Go the Distance'...Transcript