The OpenScience Laboratory

The OpenScience Laboratory hosts over 100 practical science investigations with remote experiments, interactive screen experiments and citizen science platforms. These include structured activities for pre-university students, as well as more than 100,000 hours per year of timetabled practical investigations for Open University students. New activities are regularly added and range from virtual microscopy to remote titrations.

A photo of a microscope with three objective lenses showing in the nose piece (turret). A slide is visible on the stage. To the right of the microscope there are two white cards that have photos on of the samples available on other slides. This image is also a link to the A-Level Virtual microscopy experiment on the OpenScience Laboratory.

A-level: virtual microscope

The A-level slide collection consists of 93 sections, including animal and plant tissues arranged into three sets (light boxes). The collection was chosen to illustrate the material which would be studied for A-level and GCSE biology in the UK.

Acid-base titration

Monitor an acid–base titration reaction using a pH meter, record the pH as the titrant is added to the analyte and plot a pH curve

a very nice experience...they prepare us in our future possible science career....it is not possible often to travel to other science institutes for their work so they need to have this remote experience...so yes for me it's cool.

Physics student
Sudying from Greece

For more details about Open University courses in Science see here.