Mobile apps

OU Study

OU Study allows students to access their learning materials and study offline, so they can study wherever they like.

Our Story 2

Our Story 2 enables young children with their parents/caregivers to take part in fun activities which can help develop interests and skills that will be relevant to them when they start to read.

This free Chinese character learning app is developed by the Chinese language team at The Open University (UK) with interactive activities to help you write, recognise visually and aurally, and memorise some of the most frequently used characters in a systematic, friendly and fun way.

Virtual Oceans VR

The Virtual Oceans VR app provides users with a unique, innovative opportunity to experience a series of dives at key locations in the world’s oceans in a submersible.

Open Justice VR

The Open Justice VR app will help you develop your presentation skills. It allows you to prepare, deliver and record a presentation in a virtual reality environment.

The Human Heart

The Human Heart is designed to support and enhance the learning of the structure and function of the heart as part of module SK299, or as a stand-alone app. It consists of an anatomically accurate heart which can be viewed in three dimensions, in cross section and also as a ‘zoomed in’ virtual exploration.