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Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction
History & The Arts

Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction

...type of mentality, so utterly foreign to us that we cannot even imagine what it would be like? And what is it like when an angel, on an earthly mission, becomes temporarily embodied? Does it experience full-blown sensory awareness or is its experience flattened out and ‘flavourless’, a deprived form of our own? The latter option is explored in Wim Wenders's film Wings...
Addressing ethical issues in your research proposal
Education & Development

Addressing ethical issues in your research proposal

...types of participants you plan to recruit (for example, children, adults with mental health problems), the research methods you will use, and the types of data you will collect. You will need to decide how to recruit your participants so you do not inappropriately exclude anyone. Consider what methods may be necessary to facilitate their voice and how you can obtain their...
Managing my money
Money & Business

Managing my money

...types of insurance and getting practical advice on how to make rational decisions about which insurance products to buy. Using up-to-the minute data from the UK you develop financial skills and approaches that are relevant globally. The course is rich in high-quality text, images, video, audio and interactive elements to support your learning. Please note that the forum...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Herodotus and the invention of history
History & The Arts

Herodotus and the invention of history

...typed ‘Herodotus’ into Google. All of these possibilities are fine, but can we trust them? Or, to put that slightly differently, how can we trust them? What kinds of elements do we look out for? Let’s take one particular popular internet source for information: Wikipedia and its entry for Herodotus. Study note: a note on Wikipedia Wikipedia is a free online...
Managing my investments
Money & Business

Managing my investments

...types of investments like peer-to-peer lending and crowd funding. Begin by watching the video, to hear Martin Upton introduce this week’s topics. MARTIN UPTON Hello again, I’m Martin Upton of The Open University’s True Potential Centre. We ended last week on Managing My Investments by looking at the factors that drive the levels of interest rates and share prices...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Creativity, community and ICT
Education & Development

Creativity, community and ICT

...type of work we do … Venturing the future is not a risk – it's a necessity of the dignity of humankind. (The Disciplined Mind: Beyond Facts And Standardized Tests, The K-12 Education That Every Child Deserves, Howard Gardner, 2000) This first case study shows the way in which ICT is used within a classroom community: to make thinking explicit and reflective; to...
Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Supporting physical development in early childhood
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting physical development in early childhood

...types of freely-movable joint. SPEAKER 1: But it's the muscles that are responsible for all movement. They are in every part of the body. Muscles move joints by contracting and relaxing, meaning that they get shorter and longer. SPEAKER 2: Each of our joints is controlled by sets of muscles. Our elbow joint has two muscles. SPEAKER 1: The biceps pull the forearm up....
Professionals negotiating different ways of knowing
Education & Development

Professionals negotiating different ways of knowing

...types of writing. It is communal, in as much as it is often pulled together based on what several other people researching, writing and thinking about the same subject have said in previous years. Professional knowledge is sometimes explicit but often people know more than they can articulate. They know with their hands and their bodies. It is usually expressed in action....