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New free courses and hobbies to try while Coronavirus restrictions are in place
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New free courses and hobbies to try while Coronavirus restrictions are in place

...courses below and let's come out of this with more knowledge than ever! Find out more about The Open University's Open Degree qualifications. Get writing Have you been itching to get your first novel started and haven't known where to begin? Well we know where - here! Start with Ten top tips for writing a novel. Then delve into the resources below: - So you've written...
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Science for everyone as £1m pledge supports new Open University courses
Science, Maths & Technology

Science for everyone as £1m pledge supports new Open University courses

...courses by The Open University completely free of charge, thanks to a pledge in 2013 of more than £1m from Dangoor Education, the educational arm of The Exilarch’s Foundation...The pledge has enabled The Open University to create an entire strand of new science-related badged open courses, delivered through the OpenLearn platform, and syndicated to iTunes, Amazon and...
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Psychological drama: Writing fictional crime drama for a forensic psychology course
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychological drama: Writing fictional crime drama for a forensic psychology course

...courses is part of the job. But what happened when he found himself having to create a crime drama?...[A person types on a typewriter] (Actually, we don't make our academics use typewriters, but we've burned through our collection of stock photos of people typing on laptops for our cybersecurity course...) "The city awoke to clouds, dank with a sense of heavy regret,...
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Free employability and training courses to support your Kickstart Scheme journey – for candidates and employers
Education & Development

Free employability and training courses to support your Kickstart Scheme journey – for candidates and employers

...courses allow learners to enhance their digital and employability skills to suit any industry placement. These free, self-paced courses provide Kickstart employees an opportunity to plug any skills gaps, build their confidence and will help younger people transition into their next job, create a business or continue to explore learning pathways open to them. Kickstart...
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Learning Design resources to support embedding sustainability competencies and learning outcomes in course materials
Education & Development

Learning Design resources to support embedding sustainability competencies and learning outcomes in course materials

...course design...Being curious is an important part of the journey towards embedding sustainability. It can be difficult trying to untangle what sustainability means in a learning design context and how to make that meaningful for students. The Open University’s (OU) Learning Design Team has created a set of resources to help prompt initial thoughts and discussions about...
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Die Kapuzinergruft: Burial ceremonies of the Habsburgs
Languages

Die Kapuzinergruft: Burial ceremonies of the Habsburgs

...course, such as Motive (L203). Choose a video Subtitles in English Subtitles in German No subtitles Transcript Question: Where were the different parts of the Habsburg bodies buried and why were they buried separately? Answer: Wenn ein Habsburger gestorben ist, wurden zunächst einmal aus rein praktischen Gründen die Eingeweide entnommen, denn die beginnen zunächst zu...
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Expert opinion: Origins of the First World War
History & The Arts

Expert opinion: Origins of the First World War

...course stopped the German advance into France in its tracks, so Bethmann never actually got to the point where he could impose these terms on a hapless France. But from the document, which is long, which has a preamble, which is four weeks in the making, we have notes in his handwriting going back to the 16th of August 1914, where verbatim some of these demands are...
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Hitler's rise and fall: Timeline
History & The Arts

Hitler's rise and fall: Timeline

...courses and qualifications. [Adolf Hitler [Image: Walter Frentz Archive]] Jump to: Birth and childhood Entry into politics Rise to power Third Reich World War II Death Hitler's birth and childhood 20 April 1889 [Adolf Hitler as a baby (c.1889-90)] Adolf Hitler as an infant Adolf Hitler is born on April 20th in Braunau am Inn in the empire of Austria-Hungary. His parents'...
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