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Learning to Teach

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Introductory Level Duration 30 mins Updated 07 May 2013
By The iTunes U team
Would you give up a successful broadcasting career to become a teacher? What are the challenges facing modern teachers?
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Timewatch and the mystery of Stonehenge: Debate

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Introductory Level Duration 30 mins Updated 23 Apr 2013
By John Farren, The Timewatch team, Professor Timothy Darvill, Dr Susie West, Dr Stuart Mitchell
How do you set about understanding the motivation of people who lived thousands of years ago? That was the task for Timewatch.
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Language of Poverty

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Introductory Level Updated 06 Mar 2013
By Dr Gerry Mooney, Owen Jones
In this audio, The Open University's Gerry Mooney discusses the language used to describe poverty in the UK with columnist and writer, Owen Jones 
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The Language of Poverty

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Introductory Level Duration 35 mins Updated 28 Feb 2013
By The iTunes U team
The language used to describe poverty in the UK has a vital bearing on how welfare policy is implemented, and how policies are perceived by...
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Tracking a group of bonobos

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Introductory Level Duration 15 mins Updated 18 Feb 2013
By Theo Webb, Gottfried Hohmann
Theo Webb and Gottfried Hohmann track a group of bonobos in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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The Heidelberg Project: A Detroit Story

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Introductory Level Duration 20 mins Updated 14 Feb 2013
By The iTunes U team
Would you give up a successful career to work for a charity? Can art save a community?
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Critical Reflection

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Introductory Level Duration 10 mins Updated 07 Feb 2013
By The iTunes U team
Is management a personal or collaborative process? What outside factors affect managers on a day-to-day basis?
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Polar bears and sea ice

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Introductory Level Duration 15 mins Updated 08 Jan 2013
By Jon Aars
In this extended interview, find out about the relationship polar bears have with sea ice.
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String of sausages lichen

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Introductory Level Duration 10 mins Updated 07 Jan 2013
By Sam Bosanquet
Could this unusually named lichen be making a comeback?
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The natural environment at the heart of human creativity

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Introductory Level Duration 10 mins Updated 20 Dec 2012
By Professor Tim Birkhead
Tim Birkhead discusses a new collective whose creative work is influenced by the natural environment.
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Online market research

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Masters Level Duration 20 mins Updated 26 Apr 2013
By The iTunes U team
How has the arrival of the internet changed the nature of marketing research?
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Beginners’ Spanish: Food and drink

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Introductory Level Duration 6 hours Updated 19 May 2013
By The Open University
This unit will be of interest to those who want to improve their language skills in order to communicate more easily and effectively in Spanish....
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Succeed with maths: Getting down to basics

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Introductory Level Duration 8 hours Updated 19 May 2013
By The Open University
This unit is concerned with how to write and understand numbers using place value, and includes a brief overview of how our number system developed....
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Foundations for self-directed support in Scotland

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Introductory Level Duration 40 hours Updated 19 May 2013
By The Open University
This course will provide the foundations of understanding self-directed support in Scotland in the wider context of personalisation. Providing grounding in the culture and ways...
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Veiling: Tradition, Identity and Fashion

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Advanced Level Duration 35 mins Updated 22 Feb 2013
By The iTunes U team
Why do Muslim women wear the hijab? How do they reconcile different approaches to veiling between generations, across different geographical regions and in different cultural...
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Regina Jonas: the first female rabbi

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Advanced Level Duration 35 mins Updated 13 Feb 2013
By The iTunes U team
Regina Jonas (1902-1944), who is now widely recognised as the world’s first female rabbi, was ordained in Nazi Germany in 1935.
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Marxism and Marketing

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Introductory Level Duration 10 mins Updated 29 Jan 2013
By The iTunes U team
What can Marxism teach us about marketing? Is Communist thinking relevant when applied to a modern drink’s marketing strategy?
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Entrepreneurial impressions - reflection

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Introductory Level Duration 7 hours Updated 19 May 2013
By The Open University
In this unit you will be encouraged to unpack your own experiences of, and perceptions about, entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship. You will also take a look...
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Beginners' Chinese: Introducing yourself

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Introductory Level Duration 6 hours Updated 19 May 2013
By The Open University
This unit is a language unit that concentrates on Mandarin Chinese as a tool for communication, but also provides some insights into Chinese society and...
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French: Ouverture

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French: Ouverture
Introductory Level Duration 20 hours Updated 19 May 2013
By The Open University
This unit is taken from Ouverture, a language course that concentrates on French as a tool for communication, but it also provides some insights into...
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