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Fire ecology
Science, Maths & Technology

Fire ecology

...source of ignition differ among ecosystems and affect aspects of the fire regime such as its extent (size), frequency and intensity. Because plants and fire share a long evolutionary history, many plants have evolved adaptive traits that not only allow them to persist in flammable environments but to depend on fire for reproduction and growth. One important consequence of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Voice-leading analysis of music 3: the background
History & The Arts

Voice-leading analysis of music 3: the background

...source of examples for studying the voice leading at the foreground and middleground of the harmony, so Beethoven's Eighth Symphony is also an ideal work in which to start to consider the largest-scale stage of voice-leading analysis. This course requires you to switch between several different formats of material. This reflects the particular nature of analysis, where...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Can you be the curator?
History & The Arts

Can you be the curator?

...sources: Victoria and Albert Museum, London Ossie Clark / Celia Birtwell ARS, NY and DACS Every effort has been made to contact copyright holders. If any have been inadvertently overlooked the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity. Important: *** against any of the acknowledgements below means that the wording has been...
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Electromagnetism: testing Coulomb’s law
Science, Maths & Technology

Electromagnetism: testing Coulomb’s law

...Open University course SM381 Electromagnetism...This free course explores Coulomb’s law, the physical law that governs the force between electric charges, and shows how it can be verified experimentally. As a prerequisite you will need some mathematical knowledge of vectors. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course SM381...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
The ethics and politics of the migration and refugee crisis
Society, Politics & Law

The ethics and politics of the migration and refugee crisis

...Open University Below you can also access an example of a prior collaboration among academics from The Open University, Oxford University and the Migration Museum Project, International Organization for Migration (IOM) and ACTREAL who together worked on the ethics and politics of the refugee crisis. We ran an exhibition with the Migration Museum, a theatre project with...
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Article 5 mins
Climate change and the importance of COP26
Nature & Environment

Climate change and the importance of COP26

...Open University both teaches about and does research relevant to climate change. It has more than seven thousand staff and nearly 200,000 students who will be affected by climate change, let alone the millions of learners using OpenLearn. This climate change page brings together existing OpenLearn content that is directly relevant to climate change which you can study but...
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The Arts and Creativity
Education & Development

The Arts and Creativity

...Open University's Art History courses and qualifications. I’m a Senior Manager in the Access, Open and Cross-curricular Innovation team and my favourite aspect about the YXM130 module is that you can use short courses that you have already studied to count towards the module - what a win! When studying this module, you can also continue to explore a range of themes and...
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Article 5 mins
Research on young people with melanoma
Health, Sports & Psychology

Research on young people with melanoma

...Open University's Health and Social Care courses and qualifications. The lives of young people matter; their experiences matter; their futures matter and their significant others matter. Below are two short podcasts. The first one explores challenges in ethical approval for the Teenage and Young Adult (TYA) with cancer project delivered to you by Professor Susanne...
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Audio 20 mins