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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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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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Art, Loot and Empire: The Benin Bronzes
History & The Arts

Art, Loot and Empire: The Benin Bronzes

...Open University's History courses and qualifications. This is the remarkable story of the Benin Bronzes, beautiful artworks in their own right, but also artefacts of cultural significance to the West African kingdom that produced them. Join retired Open University associate lecturer Linda Buckley, as she explores the history behind these objects. [Benin Bronzes head...
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Video 30 mins
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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Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter
Society, Politics & Law

Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter

...Open University. This article is based on research conducted in 2012, the year she graduated from The Open University with her Doctorate in Geography. Dr Wadsley, along with Dr Duika Burges Watson (Newcastle University, formerly Durham) were joint-recipients of the RGS-IBG Neville Shulman Challenge Award for 'Hugging the Coast: an exploration by sea-kayak of liminal...
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Video 15 mins
Using film music in the classroom
Education & Development

Using film music in the classroom

...Open University by visiting our online prospectus...Using film music in the classroom: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand methods of introducing film music to secondary school pupils understand how the concept of music accompanying image can be applied to skills of composition understand how to develop techniques of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Universities, empires and refugees
Society, Politics & Law

Universities, empires and refugees

...open to other ways of representing experience. This place of safety is what the contemporary university needs to be for refugee learners and academics. When we try to decolonise the university, maybe we should start by opening the door, so that those who have been excluded can make, and be, the change. The openness of The Open University could be the guide. Refugees could...
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57 genders (and none for me?) - Part two
Society, Politics & Law

57 genders (and none for me?) - Part two

...Open University's Open degree qualification. In the first part of her post Meg Barker welcomed Facebook's change which allows users to pick from more gender options than 'male' and 'female'. In this concluding part she points to some of the problems. [A cartoon pigeon contemplates a collection of gender filing pigeonholes] So what are the problems with Facebook's new ways...
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