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Simplistic models for understanding Coronavirus: Helpful or harmful?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Simplistic models for understanding Coronavirus: Helpful or harmful?

...become infected and pass through the health service avoids a greater flow of people through the health service later. From a systems perspective, this demonstration is a simple system process that has two stages: The population (Bucket 1, which is a population of 65 million) and the health system (which has limited capacity). This system is shown below. [Systems model...
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Article 15 mins
Sea level rise in Bangladesh
Nature & Environment

Sea level rise in Bangladesh

...becoming more difficult to sustain as storm surges become more frequent and sea-level rise continues. [Shrimp seller in Khulna, Bangladesh ] A shrimp seller in Khulna, Bangladesh Cyclone Aila Kolbari village lies in Khulna, in the South West of Bangladesh. In the 2009 Cyclone Aila, water from the sea surged over embankments along the Kholpetua river. Kolbari, which is...
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Article 5 mins
Teachers sharing resources online
Education & Development

Teachers sharing resources online

...students who are not focused, not working. These sort of things give students a role to do; you got the time keeper, the scribe, things like these have really helped and inspired me in my lessons. And then sometimes, when we’re doing debating, get some talk cards so half the class can be debating, some of the class are watching some of the others so that’s something...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Hospital: Dementia patients
Health, Sports & Psychology

Hospital: Dementia patients

...becomes aggressive at home. Patricia, his wife of 25 years, looks after him without the help of carers, but is reaching breaking point. Carl is admitted to the hospital's specially designed dementia ward, developed in response to the fact that 25 per cent of medical patients now have some form of dementia. Stanley 85-year-old Stanley, who also has dementia, has had three...
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Soaring by Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Soaring by Design

...become airborne and quickly reach high altitudes quickly? The tracks in this album look at the aerodynamics of gliders, ask questions relating to the 'Speed to Fly', and explores the consequences of kinetic and potential energy change, providing a useful way of modelling the behaviour of a glider in the air. This material makes up part of the course MST209, Mathematical...
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Audio 35 mins
Download free eBook guides to famous literary works
History & The Arts

Download free eBook guides to famous literary works

...OU experts have created guides to introduce some key works of fiction for you to download and read on your prefered device. ...The Introduction collection In this collection of free eBooks you will find new extended introductions to some classic works of fiction, looking at the creation, themes and characters of the works - Charles Dickens' Great Expectations; Mary...
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Activity 5 mins
Why do we have a two minutes’ silence on 11th November?
History & The Arts

Why do we have a two minutes’ silence on 11th November?

...a remarkable proof of the enduring legacy of the First World War. This article extract was originally published in our print item 'The First World War Experienced', a free booklet providing a close-up look at some of the experiences of the First World War and its commemoration. The booklet was written in association with the BBC/OU co-production Britain's Great War....
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Article 10 mins
Being heard
Education & Development

Being heard

...OU. For me, YXM130 provides opportunities for exploration and looking at a problem, or theme, from all kinds of perspectives. If I was to study YXM130, I would explore how people can make themselves heard, how we listen to one another and how we can communicate in the modern world. I am curious about our diversity in communicating and the challenges for those individuals...
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Article 5 mins