Take our interactive test and find out if you’re alert when behind the wheel. Your attention will be put to the test.
Category: Psychology
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Police super-recognisers have an above average ability to recognise faces and have identified a large number of criminals via CCTV footage. Do you possess the skill? Try our quiz to find out.
Category: Psychology
Can you hold an image in your mind by just looking at it for a brief amount of time? Try our photographic memory test and see whether you have eidetic memory.
Category: Psychology
Please note: As part of a review of content, this course will be deleted from OpenLearn on 26th May 2021.
Category: Social Care & Social Work
Please note: This course contains two Flash activities
which are no longer playable. These are being updated. This course can still be
studied, but you may like to postpone your study for now if you would rather
have the full experience.
which are no longer playable. These are being updated. This course can still be
studied, but you may like to postpone your study for now if you would rather
have the full experience.
Category: Sport & Fitness
What should we eat before and after exercise? This free course, Eating to win: activity, diet and weight control, examines the importance of nutrition in physical activity, sport and weight management. The role that physical activity has alongside nutrition in controlling body weight will be discussed, as will considerations for pre-exercise and post-exercise nutrition and hydration.
Category: Sport & Fitness
Please note: As part of a review of content, this course will be deleted from OpenLearn on 26th May 2021.
Category: Sport & Fitness
Learn how teaching about Remembrance Sunday can support peace education in schools, helping children understand war, build empathy and create inclusive communities.
Category: Education & Development
Life Launchpad brings together a range of engaging resources
for secondary school aged pupils.
Category: Education & Development
Keep on top of your learning with these free resources from The Open University, created for secondary school age students across the UK.
Category: Education & Development
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 relates to the assessment objectives of the EPQ, so you can be assured that what you’re working on counts towards your final grade.
Category: Education & Development
This free course, Teaching mathematics, has been designed for
non-specialist mathematics teachers of 8 to 14 year olds, teaching assistants,
home schoolers and parents and draws on the established provision of
mathematics education at the Open University. It can
also be used as Continuing Professional Development by individuals or groups of
teachers. The authors have many years’ experience of teaching mathematics
in the classroom and in Initial and Continuing Teacher Education.
non-specialist mathematics teachers of 8 to 14 year olds, teaching assistants,
home schoolers and parents and draws on the established provision of
mathematics education at the Open University. It can
also be used as Continuing Professional Development by individuals or groups of
teachers. The authors have many years’ experience of teaching mathematics
in the classroom and in Initial and Continuing Teacher Education.
Category: Education & Development
Do you want to change jobs, are you just starting in the job market or may be returning after a break? If so, then this free course, Succeed in the workplace, is for you. It will help you explore career opportunities. You will also gain the skills to write strong CVs and application forms, and to handle different types of interviews. By the end of the course you will have made a start on your own realistic and strong action plan to enable you to find a job that will fulfil your aspirations and suit your lifestyle.
Category: Education & Development
Develop the English reading and writing skills needed for university success.
Category: Education & Development
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.
Category: Education
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Please note: This is course is due to be archived on Wednesday 21st December. You can study the course up until this date. For learners who have completed the course, the Statement of Participation will remain in your learner records in your OpenLearn profile.
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What are the differences between spoken and written English? Is use of grammar more or less complex than it appears? This free course, English grammar in context, looks at the way grammar can be used as a tool for adapting our communications (both written and spoken). This OpenLearn course will help you to see how language is intertwined with both describing a view of the world and interacting with others in that world.
Please note: This is course is due to be archived on Wednesday 21st December. You can study the course up until this date. For learners who have completed the course, the Statement of Participation will remain in your learner records in your OpenLearn profile.
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What are the differences between spoken and written English? Is use of grammar more or less complex than it appears? This free course, English grammar in context, looks at the way grammar can be used as a tool for adapting our communications (both written and spoken). This OpenLearn course will help you to see how language is intertwined with both describing a view of the world and interacting with others in that world.
Category: Education
A career in childcare and education is an investment in future generations. Find out how to engage your strong communication and leadership skills to care for young ones and guide their learning.
Category: Education Careers
This free course, Attachment in the early years, covers theory and research in the area of attachment in early childhood. In the 1950s, John Bowlby was the first person to develop a theory about the significance of early attachments between caregivers and very young children. His work has stimulated a massive and very productive field of research with important implications for childcare. This OpenLearn course describes Bowlby's theory and the work that has built on it, illustrated with video recordings of the assessment of attachment in a laboratory setting and a talk by an eminent attachment researcher.
Category: Early Years
In this free course, Understanding society: families, you will explore how different families have different ideas about how work in the home should be divided. You will also investigate the diversity of families. We will see how any discussion of the division of labour has to recognise that families differ in terms of shape and size.
Category: Early Years
Are you a parent? Do you work with young children? We've put together a variety of FREE fun tasks to share with your children to help aid them in their learning and development.
Category: Childhood & Youth