OpenLearn is a fantastic offering from the Open University, one of the biggest online learning communities across the world. If you have an interest in Science, maths or technology, there’s a huge amount of courses that will be of interest to you in this list. Happy learning!
245 Free Online Courses in Science, Maths & Technology
- Achieving public dialogue
- Addiction and neural ageing
- Alcohol and human health
- Analysing skid marks
- Analytical science: Secrets of the Mary Rose
- Babylonian mathematics
- Basic science: understanding experiments
- Basic science: understanding numbers
- The Big Bang
- Biofuels
- Birth of a drug
- BSE and vCJD: Their biology and management
- Can renewable energy power the world?
- Cell signalling
- Comparing stars
- Complex numbers
- Computers and computer systems
- Creating musical sounds
- Crossing the boundary – analogue universe, digital worlds
- Data and processes in computing
- The database development life cycle
- Describing motion along a line design
- Design thinking
- Designing the user interface: Text, colour, images, moving images and sound
- Detecting Down’s syndrome in the unborn fetus
- Developing modelling skills
- Diabetes care
- Diabetes complications
- Diagramming for development 1 – Bounding realities
- Diagramming for development 2 – Exploring interrelationships
- Diagrams, charts and graphs
- Differential equations
- Digital communications
- Distributed paradigms
- Drug development process: combating pain
- Early development
- Earth’s physical resources: petroleum
- Earthquakes
- Effective ways of displaying information
- Egyptian mathematics
- Energy resources: Alternative energy in perspective
- Energy resources: An introduction to energy resources
- Energy resources: Coal
- Energy resources: Geothermal energy
- Energy resources: Hydropower
- Energy resources: Nuclear energy
- Energy resources: Solar energy
- Energy resources: Tidal energy
- Energy resources: Water quality
- Energy resources: Wave energy
- Energy resources: Wind energy
- Engineering: The challenge of temperature
- Engineering: The nature of problems
- Epidemiology: An introduction
- Eutrophication
- The evolving Universe
- Experiences of learning mathematics
- Exploring data: Graphs and numerical summaries
- Exploring distance time graphs
- Extending water resources
- Finding information in information technology and computing
- Finding information in mathematics and statistics
- Finding information in science and nature
- Finding information in technology
- First-order differential equations
- Forensic science and fingerprints
- The frozen planet
- Future energy demand and supply
- Galaxies, stars and planets
- Gene manipulation in plants
- Gene testing
- Gene therapy
- Geological processes in the British Isles
- Geometry
- Global water resources
- Groundwater
- Groups and teamwork
- Health and safety in the laboratory and field
- Hearing
- ICTs in everyday life
- ICTs: device to device communication
- ICTs: e-government
- ICTs: Information
- ICTs: Technology news
- Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere
- Imaging in medicine
- Influenza: A case study
- Information on the web
- Inheritance of characters
- Innovation through representation
- Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction
- Interpreting data: Boxplots and tables
- Intracellular transport
- Introducing engineering
- Introducing ICT systems
- Introduction to active galaxies
- An introduction to complex numbers
- Introduction to computational thinking
- Introduction to computer forensics and investigations
- Introduction to cybersecurity
- An introduction to data and information
- An introduction to e-commerce and distributed applications
- Introduction to ecosystems
- Introduction to finite element analysis
- Introduction to forensic engineering
- Introduction to histology
- Introduction to histopathology
- An introduction to information security
- Introduction to microscopy
- An introduction to minerals and rocks under the microscope
- Introduction to polymers
- An introduction to software development
- Introduction to structural integrity
- An introduction to sustainable energy
- Invention and innovation: An introduction
- Iron transport and storage
- James Clerk Maxwell
- John Napier
- Jupiter and its moons
- Key skill assessment unit: Information literacy
- Key skill assessment unit: Information technology
- Key skills assessment unit: Application of number
- Language, notation and formulas
- Learning, thinking and doing
- Living with diabetes
- Living with the internet: Keeping it safe
- Living with the internet: learning online
- Living with the Internet: Online shopping
- Living without oil
- Machines, minds and computers
- The making of individual differences
- Managing Complexity: A Systems Approach
- Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction
- Manufacturing
- Mathematical language
- Maths everywhere
- Maths for Science
- Maths for science and technology
- Meiosis and mitosis
- Microbes – friend or foe?
- Microelectronic solutions for digital photography
- Migration
- Minerals and the crystalline state
- The MMR vaccine: Public health, private fears
- Modelling displacements and velocities
- Modelling heat transfer
- Modelling object-oriented software – an introduction
- Modelling static problems
- Modelling with first-order differential equations
- Modelling with Fourier series
- Models and modelling
- The molecular world
- The Moon
- Moons
- Moons alumni forum
- More working with charts, graphs and tables
- Motion under gravity
- Mountain building in Scotland
- Natural intelligence
- Network security
- Nucleic acids and chromatin
- Number systems
- Numbers, units and arithmetic
- Numbers: An introduction to subtraction
- Numbers: Getting to grips with division
- Nutrition: Proteins
- Nutrition: vitamins and minerals
- Obesity: Balanced diets and treatment
- The oceans
- An overview of active galaxies
- Pain and Aspirin
- People-centred designing
- Personal development planning for engineering
- Plate Tectonics
- Potable water treatment
- Practising science: Reading the rocks and ecology
- Predictive medicine
- Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century
- Presenting information
- Prices
- Proteins
- Protocols in multi-service networks
- Public health approaches to infectious disease
- Ratio, proportion and percentages
- Real functions and graphs
- Representing and manipulating data in computers
- The restless Universe
- Revolutions in sound recording
- Rounding and estimation
- Safari – skills accessing, finding and reviewing information
- Scattering and tunnelling
- Science promotion
- Seeing the light
- Social issues and GM crops
- Software development for enterprise systems
- Sound for music technology: An introduction
- Squares, roots and powers
- Starting with maths: Patterns and formulas
- Structural devices
- Structural materials in cells
- Succeed with maths – Part 1
- Succeed with maths – Part 2
- The Sun
- Superconductivity
- Surface water
- Surfaces
- Symmetry
- Systems diagramming
- Systems engineering: Challenging complexity
- Systems modelling
- Systems practice: Managing sustainability
- Systems thinking and practice
- Systems thinking: Understanding sustainability
- Tay Bridge disaster
- Technology Evaluation
- Telescopes and spectrographs
- Test kits for water analysis
- Themes and theories for working in virtual project teams
- Theories in Technology
- Evaluation
- The three-way catalytic converter
- A tour of the cell
- Transport and sustainability
- Unclear about nuclear?
- Understanding cardiovascular diseases
- Using a computer for study
- Using a scientific calculator
- Using vectors to model
- Vaccination
- Vectors and conics
- Visualisation: Visual representations of data and information
- Volcanic hazards
- Watching the weather
- Water and human health
- Water in the UK
- Water use and the water cycle
- Web guide
- What chemical compounds might be present in drinking water?
- What do genes do?
- What is the genome made of?
- Why sustainable energy matters
- Working mathematically
- Working on your own mathematics
- Working with charts, graphs and tables
- Working with diagrams