Fancy brushing up on your business skills or perhaps learning something completely new? See what the Open University Business School has to offer:

B200 Understanding Business Behaviour
To develop your understanding of the business world, this course explains how businesses work, how they are structured, are influenced by their environments and how they try to control competitive market pressures. Understanding their complexities and uncertainties is not easy, so the course discusses different approaches and ways of seeing organizations and markets. It does not merely present information and theories but enables you to evaluate and use them, improving your capacity for rigorous assessment. Finally, the course defines and develops three groups of related business skills: study and presentation, IT and numeracy.

B202 Understanding Business Functions
This course develops knowledge and understanding of how organizations work through the contributions, and integration, of five key business functions: human resources, information management, marketing, operations, accounting and finance. Using textbooks, you will examine the key practices of traditional business functions and the contributions they make to organizations, individually and collectively. Case studies and specially written texts show the origins, rationale, limitations and strengths of business functions from the perspectives of various stakeholders. You will develop skills in finding and organizing information, preparing simple presentations, and using basic software packages and computer conferencing.

BM240 Quantitative Methods in Business
Large amounts of quantitative data are produced by and for business. This course helps you to make sense of them and their analysis. You will learn to perform simple quantitative analyses for yourself, and understand and interpret the results of quantitative analyses performed by others. Wherever there is uncertainty, quantitative methods are statistical methods, and the course gives a good grounding in statistics for business and economics. Other quantitative tools are operational research (management science) methods, and you will be studying some of those too. You are expected to have basic mathematical skills.

B300 Business Behaviour in a Changing World
This course is designed to develop an understanding of strategic organizational issues and how organizations respond to changes in their environments. You will look at how organizations make strategic decisions and consider rationality and routines, decision methods and decision processes. You will analyse how organizations develop strategy, including notions of core competence and strategic innovation. And you will study a range of policy and environmental concepts and cases that demonstrate the impact of the macro-environment on organizations, along with the boundaries and relationships between strategy at the level of the firm, the industry, the nation, the region and globally.