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Living with Disability
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living with Disability

...Open University's Faculty of Health and Social Care explain why some of the case studies were selected for study and unpick some of the issues that emerge. This material forms part of The Open University course K101 An introduction to health and social care... Living with Disability A short introduction to this album. Living with MS: Veronica's story A day in the life of...
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Audio 2 hrs 14 mins
Exploring communications technology
Digital & Computing

Exploring communications technology

...Open University course TM355 Communications technology...Exploring communications technology: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate an understanding of the principles of, and reasons for, carrier-wave modulation, and its application to Quadrature Amplitude Modulation demonstrate an understanding of the roles of error detection...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Early modern Europe: an introduction
History & The Arts

Early modern Europe: an introduction

...Open University course A223 Early modern Europe: society and culture, 1500 to 1780...Early modern Europe: an introduction: Learning outcomes - By the end of this course, you should be able to: identify the fundamental features of the early modern period and understand the problems of defining the early modern period appreciate that there are different approaches to the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Golden Globe Ocean Race: The power of the wind at sea and man’s use of this power over time
Science, Maths & Technology

Golden Globe Ocean Race: The power of the wind at sea and man’s use of this power over time

...source at the start of the 21st century, yet wind-driven mills and pumps, and nautical sails for transport were, along with waterwheels, the first mechanical devices to power industrial production. The advantages of harnessing wind energy are obvious; it is free, clean and widely available. Although a favoured source of 'green' energy, the increasing deployment of wind...
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Video 20 mins
'As rich as Croesus'
History & The Arts

'As rich as Croesus'

...sources...The Croesus story, from Herodotus Book 1, Chapter 6-95 forms the basis for this introductory activity in the OpenLearn Herodotus Collection. We have selected a range of extracts from the Hestia Research project and other reliable sources, such as the BBC, British Museum and Metropolitan Museum of Art, to help you to explore where the saying ‘as rich as...
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Activity 5 mins
Classical studies: it's more than the words
History & The Arts

Classical studies: it's more than the words

...source that relies on words. Where literature is often associated with art, history-writing today is associated with truth. As a result, it's a natural instinct to read ancient historians with the expectation that they are more reliable sources than literature. To a degree, that's fair enough. Most ancient historians took pains to distinguish themselves in one way or...
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Activity 5 mins
Rocky relations: Why an isolated rock in the Atlantic is a sought after and contested place
Nature & Environment

Rocky relations: Why an isolated rock in the Atlantic is a sought after and contested place

...source of the interest in this single unforgiving and unliveable rock. [Rockall with birds flying] Arguably there can be few places in the world, so small, so isolated, and so perilous, that have generated international disputes, and filled as many newspaper and online column inches as has Rockall. The dispute goes back to the middle of the twentieth century and has been...
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Article 5 mins
Discovering music through listening
History & The Arts

Discovering music through listening

...opening of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. As you do try to identify the combination of long and short sounds which comprise the famous opening motif (the first four musical notes that we hear). You might jot this down with an ‘●’ indicating short sounds and a ‘–’ indicating long sounds. Audio 10: Beethoven, Fifth Symphony, First Movement, 00:00–00:30...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs