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Education & Development
Life Launchpad
Life Launchpad brings together a range of engaging resources for secondary school aged pupils.
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Education & Development
Succeed with Extended Project Qualifications (EPQs)
Make a success of your EPQ by using the OpenLearn EPQ Vision Tool. This tool will support you at the very beginning of your Extended Project by helping you to decide what your project will be, through to the next steps of researching and monitoring. There’s also some handy guidance on how to present your final project. Each of the headings ...
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Education & Development
EPQs: help and tips
The Extended Project Qualification (EPQ) is an opportunity for you to work independently on a topic that really interests you or that you think is important. It is equivalent to an A-level qualification. These articles are designed to help you if you are enrolled on an EPQ.
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Science, Maths & Technology
15 minutes on Mars
Have you ever looked up into the night sky at the red planet and wanted to know more? Now here’s your chance to explore Mars.
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Nature & Environment
Studying mammals: Plant predators
From the mouse-deer to the elephant, plant eaters come in all shapes and sizes. But how do they manage to flourish on a salad diet? In this free course, Studying mammals: Plant predators, we will examine the special features that allow them to extract their nutrients from leaves, and see how some plants protect themselves from these predators. ...
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Society, Politics & Law
Detecting Deception: Can you spot a liar?
Some money has been stolen - everyone denies taking it but some people are lying. Can you work out who is telling the truth and who is being dishonest? Find out in our interactive...
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Science, Maths & Technology
Bioinformatics: a new asset in the Disease Detectives toolkit
Bioinformatics is transforming modern medicine. Discover how DNA sequencing and metagenomics are helping scientists identify hidden pathogens, solve medical mysteries and improve disease diagnosis faster than ever before.
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History & The Arts
Religion as Social Control - Karl Marx
Why did Karl Marx thought religion was like Opium? Had Marx got his way, society would be so happy being revolutionaries, there’d be no need for religion. This 60 second animation explains more.
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History & The Arts
Troy Story: Homer's Iliad and Odyssey
Interested in Greek myths? We've condensed the epic narrative of Homer's poems the Iliad and the Odyssey into short animations voiced by the dulcet tones of Don Warrington.
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Money & Business
Entrepreneurship – from ideas to reality
Turn your business ideas into reality with this free course on entrepreneurship. Explore practical steps for starting and growing a business, from developing ideas and choosing a business model to funding, location, and assessing your own skills and risk approach — all illustrated with real-life case studies.
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History & The Arts
HeadStart Classical Studies
Explore the worlds of ancient Greece and Rome with this collection of free courses on the classical world.
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History & The Arts
Exploring Ovid’s big ideas
In this free course, Exploring Ovid’s big ideas, you will find out why Ovid’s work is still so relevant today. You will meet characters from ancient myth like Actaeon the hunter who was turned into a stag, and Ta’aroa the ancient Pacific Islander god who lived in a shell. And you will discover how ancient stories still give us new ways of ...