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Welcome to the OpenLearn schools hub

...out on OpenLearn won’t count towards any formal qualification, but sharing your certificates and badges with teachers, tutors, on applications and via social media is a great way to demonstrate your learning and interest in a subject – think college and university applications and how independent, proven study in a subject could set you apart! All learners must be...
The world's busiest railway - Mumbai, India and rail
Science, Maths & Technology

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

...out more about the world's busiest railway network - Mumbai in India...[Exterior, Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Mumbai railway station at night] Modern India was built on the railways. They unify a country of over a billion people – a nation divided by language, region, religion and politics. But India’s railways, a complex network, with the densest commuter services...
Your Health in Your Hands - PHBs
Health, Sports & Psychology

Your Health in Your Hands - PHBs

...out. The movement towards personalisation started in the 1970s. Since 2009 a variety of trials have taken place across England, mainly for people living with long term conditions. From 2014 more and more patients will be able to ask to take control of their own health care. Case study 4: Motor Neurone Disease In this case study we hear from Martin Harrison who was...
From Zero Day to Doomsday – Public Lecture
Digital & Computing

From Zero Day to Doomsday – Public Lecture

...comments box below this article. Study with The Open University Find out more about opportunities to study computing at the OU Find out about the OU’s lead role in the Institute of Coding Introduction to computing and information technology 1 (TM112) Introduction to cybersecurity: say safe online Information security Introduction to computing and information technology...
Can you learn a language with an app?
Languages

Can you learn a language with an app?

...out there promising to revolutionise language learning - but how effective are they? Fernando Rosell-Aguilar explores...['hello' in various languages ] Language learning apps are very popular in app stores worldwide – and are said to be revolutionising language learning. These apps offer opportunities to practise grammar and can be a very rewarding way to learn...
The Odyssey: List of characters
History & The Arts

The Odyssey: List of characters

...out more about The Open University's Classical Studies courses Odysseus is the king of Ithaca, and one of the Greek heroes who joined in the Greek expedition to Troy, leaving his wife Penelope and infant son Telemachus behind. He has a reputation for clever speaking and cunning; the ruse of the Trojan Horse by means of which the Greeks finally sacked Troy after ten years...
The housing crash and the man who saw it coming
Money & Business

The housing crash and the man who saw it coming

...out of control, that was unsustainable both in terms of increasing home prices, excesses in the housing market and in mortgages. It was pretty clear that there was a housing bubble in the United States. Real home prices had doubled between 1996 and 2006, when historically prices of home never increase more than inflation, so the doubling was not that sustainable, and...
Batman v Superman: Are superheroes always good?
History & The Arts

Batman v Superman: Are superheroes always good?

...out an exceptionally good and selfless deed, for example a soldier who risks his life to save a comrade, or a passer-by who pulls a child out of a river. In films and comic books, superheroes use their power to save the world from dastardly villains who want to destroy it. To the ancient Greeks, however, heroes were not necessarily good so much as larger than life, and...