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An informal and friendly introduction to British Sign Language
Education & Development

An informal and friendly introduction to British Sign Language

...families and deaf communities, but it was not recognised as an official language until 2003. Here at the OU we have around 1,300 students who have registered with a hearing disability. The Open University Students Association teamed up with one such student, Joshua Page, and his friend Joshua Sprules to put together some basic BSL tuition to introduce you to BSL. BSL uses...
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Video 20 mins
An introduction to social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to social work

...Families (DOH, 2000, 2001). The ecological perspective sees the world as a highly complex web of interacting systems which are mutually dependent (perhaps the food chain is the best-known example). When applied to social work, human society is seen as a network, implying that intervention in one part can have dramatic effects on others. The tendency to see such a network...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Discovering music: the blues
History & The Arts

Discovering music: the blues

...history and how it has been performed as well as some of the technical elements of blues music. [Described image] Figure 1 B. B. King performing c.1968. Photo Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images (via Britannica Image Quest) Before you start, take a couple of minutes to reflect on what you already know about the blues and about musical traditions. If you do an internet...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Seeing institutions in different ways
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing institutions in different ways

...histories, we are shaped by – and we in turn shape – institutions. They give structure and meaning to our lives. They make shared experience, and shared action, possible. In short, we live our lives – as social beings – through institutions. I can put this in more formal, academic terms. Teddy Brett, who has contributed a great deal to the theory and practice of...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Life with the lions: Why relocating South African lions to Rwanda might create its own problems
Science, Maths & Technology

Life with the lions: Why relocating South African lions to Rwanda might create its own problems

...history of the species, populations in distant regions will have accumulated genetic differences. This leads to genetic diversity. On the species scale, genetic diversity can be seen as different genetic clades, or different branches on the lion-tree. These patterns of genetic diversity are disrupted when two populations from different regions are mixed. The seven lions...
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Article 5 mins
What is the haka and why is it performed at rugby matches?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is the haka and why is it performed at rugby matches?

...history. Of course, not only will the hopes and dreams of all New Zealanders be riding high on their team winning yet another world title, but indeed the mana, or sense of pride, in what it means to 4.5m people to be Kiwi will be proudly on display. The famous All Black haka (war challenge) first performed in 1888 against Surrey, will be seen by millions of viewers...
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Referendum Rhetoric: keeping a-hold of nurse or leaping into the dark?
Society, Politics & Law

Referendum Rhetoric: keeping a-hold of nurse or leaping into the dark?

...history and culture which needs to be challenged, whatever the result. It is not just the insults (‘hypocritical’, ‘dishonest’, ‘immoral’, ‘bitter’, ‘vengeful’, ‘verging on the squalid’) or the loose allusions to Hitler which debase the currency of political rhetoric. It is also a disregard for the origins of expressions which have been prayed in...
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Article 10 mins
Clavius - a lunar mystery
Science, Maths & Technology

Clavius - a lunar mystery

...history of the surface and can be used to determine the age of different regions of the Moon. Older parts of the lunar surface have relatively large numbers of craters, having been exposed for longer. In contrast, the smoother seas with fewer and smaller craters represent more recent outflows, now solidified, that took place after the end of the main phase of bombardment...
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Article 5 mins