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Group theory
Science, Maths & Technology

Group theory

...family of finite groups, the dicyclic groups...This free course consolidates and builds on group theory studied at OU level 2 or equivalent. Section 1 describes how to construct a group called the direct product of two given groups, and then describes certain conditions under which a group can be regarded as the direct product of its subgroups. Section 2 describes the key...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Looking at population data
Society, Politics & Law

Looking at population data

...history of censuses What stories do differently shaped population pyramids tell? Digging inside the data Looking for discontinuities Transcript A brief history of censuses Census taking - recording the size of a country's population, and in many cases the age and gender of everyone making up that population - has a long, if patchy, history. Originating over 3000 years...
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Video 30 mins
International relations: exploring territorial divisions
Society, Politics & Law

International relations: exploring territorial divisions

...history, what we now see as the ‘international system’ has been organised, understood and experienced in other ways. Indeed, for much of history, different kinds of empire have predominated. The legacy of these historical antecedents continues to influence contemporary international relations between these different actors. [Described image] Figure 1 European empires...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Approaching prose fiction
History & The Arts

Approaching prose fiction

...history of the form as a whole. These patterns cannot be assembled into a grand design, but the forms of fiction, the ways in which stories have been told, have their own history. An understanding of that historical pattern, haphazard and fragmentary as it may be, does give us some insight into the forms of life which literate societies have evolved in history, some...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
How can honour killings be stopped?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can honour killings be stopped?

...family’ or ‘troubled families’ approach which loses its primary focus of protecting victims and holding perpetrators to account. It is also woefully inadequate in meeting the challenges of the collective nature of domestic violence/HBV where codes of ‘honour’ are used to justify, collude or inflict abuse by multiple perpetrators in extended BME families and...
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Article 10 mins
Cider with Rosie
History & The Arts

Cider with Rosie

...Family friends and local historians will testify that Lee was not always strictly faithful to the literal truth in the book, blending fact with fiction in his wistful elegy to a disappeared rural world. Nevertheless, these intoxicating and poetic descriptions of youth capture the essence of a life lived one hundred years ago, an aspect of the book which has made readers...
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Article 5 mins
Professor Sara Haslam on the Brontë sisters’ work
History & The Arts

Professor Sara Haslam on the Brontë sisters’ work

...despite not having money, despite living elsewhere than the south of the country – too! Take part in our Quiz: Which Brontë ​sister wrote it Explore the OU/BBC drama on the Brontë sisters, To Walk Invisible. Read Prof. Sara’s article: Written in blood: Family, sex and violence in Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre. Practise the Brontës’ art with our free courses...
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Article 5 mins
Enduring Love
Society, Politics & Law

Enduring Love

...future lives together, as a family. That Synching Feeling Emma and Bex plan to get married next year. They talk about being in a same-sex relationship and their hopes and plans for the future. Opposites Attract Elsa and John have been together for 13 years. They reflect on how they keep their relationship alive and interesting by acknowledging their individual needs....
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Audio 1 hr 10 mins