07/05/2020

The Open University (OU) in Wales is encouraging people to follow one of its online courses whilst being asked to stay at home during the Coronavirus pandemic. The OU has seen a spike in visitors to its free online learning platform OpenLearn to access its health, wellbeing and educational content in a time of huge societal need. The site usually sees an average of 835,000 unique visitors per month. In March 2020, this shot up to 1.77 million and is…

10/04/2020

Learning is for life and should be accessible to everyone. That’s the mission The Open University has had at its core for over 50 years. From our inception, we’ve continuously explored new ways to bring the best quality university education direct to people’s homes wherever they live – whether that was via the late night BBC TV broadcasts, posting books, floppy disks and DVDs in the post, or producing the latest online content, webinars and interactive tutorials.   As the…