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History & The Arts
Writing across cultures
Xiaolu Guo explains how she approached her novel, A Concise Chinese–English Dictionary for Lovers - making creativity work across the English and Chinese languages
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Society, Politics & Law
Methods in Motion: Getting on your bike, and looking for answers
Dr Peter Wood, a Visiting Fellow with the Geography Discipline, argues that although methodological choices are often seen as technical decisions, they can actually be key to intellectual creativity.
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Nature & Environment
The environmental costs of Trump’s wall
Trump's wall will not only have long-lasting impact on human society, but also severe ecological consequences.
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Money & Business
How is Italy reinventing the co-op?
One hundred million people are part of some sort of co-op around the world. A change in the law in 1991 has powered their development in Italy. It's a model worth investigating, explains onthecommons' Jay Walljasper.
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Society, Politics & Law
Climate change: the kale smoothie of TV
Is climate change the kale smoothie of TV schedules: unappealing but somehow fashionable and even essential to the diet?
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Society, Politics & Law
Heathrow third runway: who and where will benefit?
Exploring the costs and benefits of expanding Heathrow, using a geographical analysis.
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Science, Maths & Technology
Sound for music technology: An introduction
Whether you're a professional musician, play music with your friends on the weekends or just like to listen to CDs, music technology affects your life. In this free course, Sound for music technology: An introduction, you will learn some of the basics of music technology, starting with what sound is, how it is created and how it travels.
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Money & Business
Difference and challenge in teams
This free course looks at how teams ‘travel’ together on a journey of development. Those journeys are hardly ever smooth. The course encourages you to recognise difference and challenge amongst individuals in the team who are pulling in different directions. It will help you identify where such challenges can be embraced for the benefit of your ...
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Supporting children's development
This course will help you develop a deeper understanding of children's development from the ages of 0-17 years.
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Nature & Environment
Sir David Attenborough and The Open University
Sir David Attenborough and The Open University have had a long-standing relationship since the university's birth. David explains how that relationship came about and how it has developed over the years.
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Society, Politics & Law
Nationalism, self-determination and secession
What makes a 'nation' and what makes peoples strive for nationhood? This free course, Nationalism, self-determination and secession, will provide you with an introduction to studying political ideas by looking at how people who see themselves as nations challenge the existing order to assert their right to a state of their own.
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Science, Maths & Technology
Minerals and the crystalline state
Rocks are made of minerals and, as minerals are natural crystals, the geological world is mostly a crystalline world. This free course, Minerals and the crystalline state, introduces the study of minerals and crystal structures, using online text and interactive activities, including questions and answers, video clips, slidecasts and a Digital Kit.