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Carrying out research for policy and advocacy work
Society, Politics & Law

Carrying out research for policy and advocacy work

...overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity. Don't miss out If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses....
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Brain Awareness Week
Science, Maths & Technology

Brain Awareness Week

...resources from our experts about the brain, from articles to free courses. Spend a few minutes thinking about what your brain does You could have come up with many different things. For example, the brain controls our movements and our basically bodily functions such as hunger and thirst. It also allows us to interact with the world around us by interpreting information...
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Article 1 hr
Introducing social work: a starter kit
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social work: a starter kit

...resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Session 3: Understanding social divisions and diversity: Introduction - The allocation of resources and the access to opportunities in society have throughout human history been competitive and contradictory, at times being advantageous to some individuals and groups...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Vitality Netball Nations Cup 2025: can the England Roses go all the way?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Vitality Netball Nations Cup 2025: can the England Roses go all the way?

...opening game, they defeated Malawi 62-36. The following day, despite playing better as a team, and being neck and neck with them at the end of every quarter, South Africa just clinched the victory at the end winning by 2 points 59-61. Paige Reed of the Roses battles with Martha Dambo of Malawi, 1 February 2025 The fast-paced invasion sporting competition is being aired...
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Article 5 mins
Can I use 'we' and 'I' in my essay? Introducing corpus linguistics
Languages

Can I use 'we' and 'I' in my essay? Introducing corpus linguistics

...Open and I've searched the whole BAWE corpus: [Screengrab showing instances of the word 'we' in the British Academic Written English corpus as returned by SketchEngine] Click on the image to see a larger version From this screenshot, we can see that BAWE contains 15,718 instances of 'we' (or 1,885 per million words). A similar search for 'I' reveals that there are 13,069...
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Article 10 mins
Using film music in the classroom
Education & Development

Using film music in the classroom

...inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity. Don't miss out: If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University - www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Contemporary issues in managing
Money & Business

Contemporary issues in managing

...overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity. Don't miss out If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses....
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
The Rise of Museums
History & The Arts

The Rise of Museums

...education experience, a monument to humanity's struggle to rise from the muck and the goo, and get an upper hand over its environment …" [David Mamet, The museum of science and technology story'in Five Television Plays, New York (1990)] Such is the purpose of a modern museum. In Mamet's fictional, behind-the-scenes account of museum life, historical characters come...
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Article 10 mins