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So you think you're supportive? But are you really an LGBTQI+ ally? Test yourself by using our immersive film-based interactive.
Category: Young People's Health
Only a small minority of LGBT young people learn about sexual health in the classroom, which could put them at risk.
Category: Young People's Health
Transgender people are now able to compete at the Olympics - but there are some who worry this might create opportunities for cheating. Katharina Lindner explores the questions.
Category: Sport & Fitness
How and why does pre-registration nurse education play a crucial role in ensuring patients and their families receive high-quality nursing care?
Category: Healthcare Careers
How can educators better support students who fail? Drawing on personal and professional experience, Karen Storey and Vicky Kiddey share their insights.
Category: Education & Development
This free course explores different aspects of learning and teaching in primary education. It gives opportunities to engage with different types of activities that are designed to develop an understanding of learning and teaching in primary education.
Category: Education & Development
Are you currently studying? This free course, All my own work: exploring academic integrity, is designed to help you build confidence in producing your own work for academic purposes. You will explore what plagiarism is and how to avoid it, and learn how and when to reference. The course also includes an interactive to work through, which will help you to identify the potential temptations and challenges you may face when working on assignments. By the end of the course you should have developed an understanding of what appropriate academic practice is and feel more confident in producing your own work for academic purposes.
Category: Education & Development
For David, OpenLearn offered a chance to understand more about a subject close to his heart, and to help him find a route back into studying again in the future. He discovered what he calls ‘an amazing resource’, as he explains...
Category: Education & Development
Returning to study after 30 years led Charity to not only rediscover a passion for learning, but also to discover OpenLearn. She’s used the free courses to prepare for her OU degree, found some to support her during her studies and others just for the fun of learning (and improving her quizzing skills!), as she explains...
Category: Education & Development
With more than 800 free courses, OpenLearn has something for everyone. These learners shared with us how they benefited, how it changed lives, inspired further study, sparked an interest or just learned something new. It can become addictive!
Category: Education & Development
In this article Dr Laura Tan gives a fresh mixed-race perspective on having twice the cultures, twice the workload… so it was only right that she had twice the celebration at graduation!
Category: Education & Development
Tackling ecological and social injustice together: how early years practitioners and young children can respond to the climate crisis alongside non-human creatures and the material world around them.
Category: Education & Development
If you work in a Primary school setting and want to further your professional development, you might find these free resources useful.
Category: Education & Development
Tanveer Ahmed reflects on how Black and women of colour feminist theories have helped her better understand how patriarchal and Eurocentric narratives continue to underpin and shape fashion design and explores how to decolonise design practices.
Category: Education & Development
Are you a practitioner working in Early Years, primary or secondary settings? If so you'll find these free resources useful.
Category: Education & Development
The Department for Education has partnered with the Open University to offer free training tools designed to help people find a job, advance their career or grow their business.
Category: Education & Development
Beyond the gates - a short film exploring 50 years of educating students in prison.
Category: Education & Development
The stakeholders from universities that offer iTunes U materials discuss the future of iTunes U in this podcast.
Category: Education & Development
In these interviews with several iTunes U users, learners discuss how they find and use the materials they download.
Category: Education & Development