Enrichment

Great little resource for online learning

Mike McCartney

6th January 2021

I came across OpenLearn, Free Learning from The Open University when doing some lesson preparation on legislatures.

It is a taster site for the Open University, but offers a much more manageable challenge than many MOOCs that are on offer

Here, you can search for free courses, interactives, videos and more, both for topics that are directly of relevance to the UK Politics component of the A Level, and also other avenues of study of the subject family more generally - in other words, those you could add to a personal statement for a university application?

Directly of relevance to studies of the UK Politics course

The politics of devolution

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/people-politics-law/politics-policy-people/sociology/the-politics-devolution/content-section-0?active-tab=content-tab

Constitutions

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/society-politics-law/constitutions-transition/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab

Thatcherism

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/society/politics-policy-people/remembering-thatcherism

Developing a broader understanding of politics

Obama’s Foreign Policy

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/people-politics-law/politics-policy-people/politics/the-usa-power-and-international-order-foreign-policy-under-obama/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab

What is Politics?

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/society-politics-law/what-politics/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab

Rights and International Justice

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/people-politics-law/politics-policy-people/politics/rights-and-justice-international-relations/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab

This is the section for Law, Society and Politics: https://www.open.edu/openlearn...

Happy hunting!

Mike McCartney

Mike is an experienced A-Level Politics teacher, author and examiner.

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