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Investigating addiction
Science, Maths & Technology

Investigating addiction

...studies. The results raise interesting questions about brain patterns underlying addictions, and how addiction should be treated. This material forms part of The Open University course SD805 Issues in brain and behaviour... Physiological aspects of addictions A look at what can happen to our brain if we become addicted and a discussion of the long term effects. The...
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Video 28 mins
An introduction to public leadership
Money & Business

An introduction to public leadership

...study and practice of leadership, such as the development of styles and skills based on well-established theory, while identifying the distinctive features and problems of leading in the public sphere. Chief among these distinctive features are the role of public value, skills of political astuteness, and the complex nature of the problems of public service provision,...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Marcin on academic talk
Education & Development

Marcin on academic talk

OU student, Marcin, tells us how audio materials help aid his studies in this extended interview from 'Go the Distance'...Transcript
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Video 5 mins
Teaching secondary music
Education & Development

Teaching secondary music

...skills of all the young people they teach. These include: what it means to teach and learn musically the musical knowledge(s) teachers teach where and how young people are taught and learn music the pedagogies that underpin different forms of and approaches to music education. Through coming to a greater understanding of these concepts and the issues they raise, and...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Opening up history: art in the Reformation
History & The Arts

Opening up history: art in the Reformation

...study, my undergraduate tutor asked me what themes in history I was interested in and what languages I knew. I was interested in early modern gender and religion and spoke a little German. Those questions set me on my way – during my Master’s I studied the correspondence of Abbess Caritas Pirckheimer who resisted pressure to close her convent during the Protestant...
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Article 5 mins
Smart Cities in the Making: Learning from Milton Keynes
Society, Politics & Law

Smart Cities in the Making: Learning from Milton Keynes

...study of how cities are increasingly using digital data to improve their management and create new ways of living...A smart city uses digital data to improve the way that it's managed, and to support new opportunities or ways of life. In the following video, Professor Gillian Rose introduces research into how data and smart technologies are being combined with governance,...
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Video 10 mins
Killed by Agatha Christie: Strychnine and the detective novel
History & The Arts

Killed by Agatha Christie: Strychnine and the detective novel

...study in arsenic, Strong Poison. But no crime novelist wrote about poison with such knowledge and enthusiasm as Christie, who once said: “Give me a decent bottle of poison and I’ll construct the perfect crime.” In fact, at the time that Christie began work on A Mysterious Affair at Styles, she had been working as a wartime nurse, had been employed in a hospital...
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Article 5 mins
Encouraging book talk in the school library
Education & Development

Encouraging book talk in the school library

...studying with The Open University by visiting our online prospectus...Encouraging book talk in the school library: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: clarify ideas on literacy criticism explore with pupils what makes a good book produce a range of writing frames to encourage pupils to write book reviews encourage pupils to follow some...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs