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A linguistic toolkit for health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

A linguistic toolkit for health and social care

...University, Sweden). They analysed 450,000 words of authentic British English conversations from a wide variety of contexts – chats between family and friends, informal workplace exchanges, formal meetings, university settings – to understand all the different ways people give and respond to advice. They found over 1,200 instances of advice-giving, which were...
Poetry prescription
History & The Arts

Poetry prescription

...University's Creative Writing courses and qualifications. [The Open University logo.] [Poetry prescription interface with the text 'Poetry Prescription prescribes a poem to suit your mind. What's on your mind?' embedded in the image. ] Find a poem to suit your mood Acknowledgements ‘What if this road’ by Sheenagh Pugh, from Id’s Hospit (Seren, 1997) From...
A tribute to the world of myth: Ovid and Holkham Hall
History & The Arts

A tribute to the world of myth: Ovid and Holkham Hall

...University course A330 Myth in the Greek and Roman worlds... A tribute to the world of myth: Ovid and Holkham Hall A short introduction to this album. Ovid at Holkham Hall The significance and legacy of Thomas Coke's art collection at Holkham Hall. Thomas Coke of Holkham The passionate collector: Thomas Coke. Depictions of myth How art chosen by Thomas Coke spans sixteen...
Darwin and language diversity
Science, Maths & Technology

Darwin and language diversity

...University and Quentin Atkinson, an evolutionary biologist at Oxford, discuss the pitfalls and the up-sides to approaching language through a Darwinian model. Focussing on Indo-European languages, they show how mathematical and statistical models can be used to study the development of both particular words and of grammatical terms. Looking to the future they speculate on...
Galaxies, stars and planets
Science, Maths & Technology

Galaxies, stars and planets

...universe from the very large to the very small; orbits and gravity; the Solar System; the Sun and other stars; galaxies and the composition of astronomical objects...This free course, Galaxies, stars and planets, is a general introduction, including scale of the universe from the very large to the very small; orbits and gravity; the Solar System; the Sun and other stars;...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Business ethics
History & The Arts

Business ethics

...University. Audio Text David Edmonds: This is Ethics Bites, with me David Edmonds Nigel Warburton: And me Nigel Warburton David: Ethics Bites is a series of interviews on applied ethics, produced in association with The Open University. Nigel: For more information about Ethics Bites, and about the Open University, go to open2.net. David: “That’ll be a short discussion...
Exploring innovative assessment methods
Education & Development

Exploring innovative assessment methods

...guides educational and training professionals through the process of introducing flexible formative and summative assessments that can meet the needs of a standardised curriculum. The course will be particularly useful for educators who work in secondary schools and teachers and lecturers who work in further and higher education colleges or universities. The course...
The 2015 Autumn Statement: First responses
Society, Politics & Law

The 2015 Autumn Statement: First responses

...University of Stirling The spending review promises to unveil “the biggest affordable housebuilding programme since the 1970s with a particular focus on the creation of 400,000 "affordable homes” by 2020. As a useful comparison, research in Scotland indicates the need for a minimum of 12,000 of these over the next five years. But there is a question mark around what...