Education

World’s largest resource for the history of reading in Britain

With over 30,000 entries, the UK Reading Experience Database (RED) offers fascinating information about British readers.

Networking for teachers and learners

Cloudworks is a place to share, find and discuss learning and teaching ideas and experiences

Bringing fieldwork right into the lab

School children often say learning science is boring as it has all been done before, but using novel touch technologies to connect field and laboratory students the ‘Out There and In Here’ project proved existing British Geological Survey maps were incorrect.

Assisting chronically ill children’s education

Technology that’s helping sick children with their science lessons.

Unique focus on young lives

Childhood poverty, learning and life transitions.

Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa (TESSA)

Research directly addresses Millennium Development Goal 2, to provide every child with good quality basic schooling by 2015.

iSpot helps people learn about nature

Learn what you’ve spotted in the park with iSpot’s community of friendly experts and learners.

Giving children the power to be scientists

A collaborative research project by the OU and The University of Nottingham has shown that school children who took the lead in investigating science topics of interest to them gained an understanding of good scientific practice.