A new set of engaging games to play on your Apple or Android device will reveal what time of day you're at your best.
Category: Psychology
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We've created a dedicated page for tennis and Wimbledon.
Category: Sport & Fitness
The school holidays are here, but learning doesn't have to stop! Check out our range of fun FREE games, interactives, animations and courses - perfect for the whole family to enjoy together.
Category: Education & Development
The Acropolis is one of the most famous ancient sites in the world. Rising over the city of Athens 150 metres above sea level, it consists of several significant archaeological remains of temples dedicated to various deities, and civic buildings. This album offers a chance to tour the Acropolis and examine its many buildings, including its best preserved temple, the Parthenon, along with its friezes, known as the Elgin Marbles. Also, the album follows the route of the procession that took place during the Panathenaea festival which rivalled the Olympic Games in popularity, and contains a track to help the student understand the conventions used to draw up plans of ancient buildings and to visualise 3-dimensional structures. This material forms part of The Open University course A219 Exploring the Classical World.
Category: History
How did the Romans entertain themselves on the long nights in the corner of empire?
Category: History
'Castle, Forest, Island, Sea' is a choose-your-own-adventure interactive that explores key questions in philosophy. Where will your chosen path lead you?
Category: Philosophy
Sean Crawford explains the Prisoner's dilemma.
Category: Philosophy
Introducing John Nash, inventor of The Prisoner's Dilemma and game theory.
Category: Philosophy
Video games are an everyday part of our children’s lives today. But many parents have concerns about the time their children spend gaming, and sometimes perceive games as addictive and unhealthy. Others see games as a creative medium, with positive educational benefits. Presented by science writer Angela Saini, this podcast explores many of the issues surrounding the subject of children and video games, and looks at work in this area by the Open University’s Centre for Childhood, Development and Learning. In the first five tracks we hear first-hand accounts from a number of perspectives, and in the final track, Angela Saini chairs a discussion about the points raised.
Category: Languages
Take a journey into the Earth's oceans and discover whether you've got what it takes to become an oceanographer. Explore ocean depths, currents, temperatures and find out more about the future of our oceans.
Category: Environmental Studies
Rocks hurtling through space shape the surface of the moons and planets as collide – and now you can use your skill and knowledge to make your own mark. Can you cover a target percentage of a planet or a moon’s surface with impact craters – by choosing meteroids based on size, make-up and speed and aiming them at your chosen target.
Category: Science, Maths & Technology
Esports is a rapidly growing, multi-billion-dollar industry offering a wide range of career pathways — from game design and event production to marketing, broadcasting, business and beyond. To explore these opportunities, we spoke with industry expert Leyla Sabet about careers in the sector.
Category: Engineering & Technology
Have you ever been told that you spend so much time playing computer games, you should get paid to do it? Well, maybe you should consider a career in designing them!
Category: Engineering & Technology
The launch of Microsoft’s new Xbox 360TM challenges some of our assumptions about firms and their capacity to innovate new products. Paul Quintas asks whether a company previously focused on software can become an apparent leader in hardware products?
Category: Engineering & Technology
How does an ice skater rotate so effortlessly on ice? What are the forces at play? How do they keep spinning? And more importantly, how do they stop? The tracks on this album use a variety of sports ranging from Ice Skating to the Highland Games to illustrate the nature of rotating bodies, looking in turn at torques, angular momentum and the moment of inertia. This material makes up part of the course MST209, Mathematical methods and models.
Category: Mathematics & Statistics
Understand the basic rules of genetics and see if you can breed the rarest fish in our biology game.
Category: Biology
Can you use your scientific knowledge and know-how to get the Bang! team out a series of sticky situations?
Category: Across the Sciences
Become a master of the universe by winning Moon Trumps.
Category: Astronomy
Uneven Journeys offers a new way of exploring the routes migrants take to the UK - it takes patience when one false move can put you back where you started.
Category: Sociology
Dick Skellington explains why a new cast for Cluedo is the first harvest of the cucumber season
Category: Sociology