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Creating open educational resources
Education & Development

Creating open educational resources

...everyday setting and has audio clips too to talk the learner through some pictures of ‘mathematical musings’. It is clear that assumptions have been made about the intended learner. For example, Play, learning and the brain was written for a teacher or helper working in something like a nursery or similar education setting, so it has a professional focus. Maths...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Dreaming of an answer to narcolepsy: Why don't we understand sleep?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dreaming of an answer to narcolepsy: Why don't we understand sleep?

...everyday scientific events into a compelling cultural narrative, says Stephen Casper, a historian of neurology at Clarkson University in New York. “It has all the ingredients of something that I think physiologists and neurologists in the early part of the 20th century were looking for and hoping they would find, something that would bring together heredity,...
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Article 15 mins
We might end up being looked after by robots. How do we prepare for that?
Science, Maths & Technology

We might end up being looked after by robots. How do we prepare for that?

...everyday domestic environment. A three-bedroom house set among others in ordinary use provides a more realistic context. The ordinariness of the house is, of course, an illusion. Sensors and cameras throughout it track people’s positions and movements and relay them to the robots, and it’s this, rather than my box-shaped companion, that I find more perturbing. Also...
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Video 15 mins
Form and uses of language
History & The Arts

Form and uses of language

...everyday, even slang words. His meaning seems to come through clearly. We may not get an exact picture of what he thinks ‘proper-looking officers’ ought to look like, but we get a clear idea of his low opinion of the officers he describes in his diary. Similarly, although we cannot clearly identify the ‘they’ that Sassoon describes to Lady Ottoline Morrell, we can...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Introducing multidisciplinary study at The Open University
Education & Development

Introducing multidisciplinary study at The Open University

...everyday problems through the lens of different disciplines provides exciting opportunities to find ways in which subjects connect and influence each other. Flexible study has always been at the heart of the Open University. Our unique Open qualifications allow you to combine subjects and develop your knowledge and skills across a range of disciplines. Enabling you to...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Investigating psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Investigating psychology

...everyday, common-sense view of the world. What phenomenologists do is to question and suspend the natural attitude, and hence concentrate on the experience itself, as it is lived. To focus on experience, it is helpful to ‘bracket out’ questions of the external or internal world and to concentrate instead on the detail and qualities of the experience. (This...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations

...everyday, casual sexism. Sexism remains a big problem for UK society as a whole and it should therefore not be a surprise that women in the sector face discrimination, as do women in all sectors of UK public and private life...Week 2: Leadership as person: traits leadership: 6 Thinking critically about your work - Do these significant problems with person-based views of...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Textiles in Ghana
History & The Arts

Textiles in Ghana

...English ….. one tree gets broken by the wind. One tree gets broken. What factory is it made in? -It’s made in Ghana by Akosombo Textiles. It’s nice. John Picton PTC This I, in fact, a locally, factory-printed copy of a resin-resist cloth produced in Holland by the Vlisco factory in Helmond. And one of the problems that the Dutch-producers of these jobs have, is that...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs