Informal Learning (MOOC, OpenLearn, Youtube)

Upskill and unlock potential with world-class professional development short courses through OU co-owned social learning platform FutureLearn.

Legal & General launches its Midlife MOT: a free, educational course, in partnership with The Open University.

Academics from The Open University have collaborated with BBC Learning English to help thousands of people around the world to not only learn English but inform and inspire them about leadership.

In life, facing tough decisions is always a possibility but in business, it’s only a matter of time. Anyone interested in business leadership can listen to a 12-episode podcast series, ‘Make or Break’.

Learning at Work Week 2020 runs from 5 to 11 October on the theme 'Learning Journeys - where will you go?'

Created in partnership with Legal & General and written by Martin Upton, Senior Lecturer in Finance at the Business School, a new course sets out the series of stepping-stones to a financially secure retirement. 

Whatever the “new normal” turns out to be post-Covid19, the ability to prepare for and adapt to change with resilience are important survival skills for the 21st Century and learning is integral to that. Liz Moody, Head of Executive Education and OUBS Academic, discusses Learning at Work Week.

A new free course, Understanding mortgages, has been produced by The Open University Business School in collaboration with the hugely popular MoneySavingExpert (MSE). The course, the first of six due to be made available over the coming months, recently launched on the OpenLearn digital platform. 

We are delighted to announce a suite of eight Business and Finance Fundamentals massive open online courses (MOOCs) has been awarded the EOCCS Certification

A new nine-part series of the OU/BBC collaboration The Bottom Line begins on Radio 4 on Thursday 31 January.