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Neither land nor sea
Nature & Environment

Neither land nor sea

...and locate yourself in this learning journey The Learning Journey will take approximately 6 hours to work through. It's broken into short sections like this, so there are lots of natural stopping points if you want to pause and come back to it later. This Learning Journey is part of the Creative Climate project on OpenLearn. Move to the next part of the journey....
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Activity 6 hrs
My Interest in Cities is Really an Interest in the Way People Live
Society, Politics & Law

My Interest in Cities is Really an Interest in the Way People Live

...meet, as Professor Allan Cochrane explains the motivations running through his work. It threads together studies of how people live, manage and organise their lives, drawing in both local and global networks of power and ideas. Cities allow us to understand, and are key parts of how, abstract theories and sweeping trends become grounded in local and everyday experiences....
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Video 5 mins
Living with visual Impairment
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living with visual Impairment

...introduction to this album. Visual Impairment Jackie's Experience Of acute transitory visual impairment as a result of MS, including her experience of difficulties with lighting and contrast. Emotional Impact Jackie talks about the emotional impact of losing her sight Nurse Support Jackie explains how nurses can support and empower people with visual impairments. Eating...
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Audio 27 mins
Water in Ethiopia
Nature & Environment

Water in Ethiopia

...introduction to this album. Water - a human right Access to water in Ethiopia can be a matter of life or death. This is brief look at the lives of people for whom an adequate water supply can never be taken for granted. Water in rural Ethiopia A day in the life of Yeshiemebet Zewdu., a local villager who lives with her husband and five children. Her daily tasks include...
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Audio 32 mins
Brass Instruments
History & The Arts

Brass Instruments

...introduction to this album How Brass Instruments Work Technology and acoustical principles. How technical developments through history have affected the design of brass instruments. Changing Key and Pitch Playing the cornet, trombone and trumpet, experts demonstrate hand stopping and lipping. Mechanical Innovation : Keys The keyed bugle and the ophicleide enabled brass...
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Audio 1 hr 10 mins
Innovation Design: Energy and Sustainability
Science, Maths & Technology

Innovation Design: Energy and Sustainability

...introduction to this album. What makes customers choose a green tariff? Customers who have opted for a green tariff talk about the reasons why they have decided to do so. The uptake of green tariffs Reasons why green tariffs are taken up by the minority in the UK. Living in a power station How a suburb in Holland is offsetting its power consumption by generating solar...
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Audio 31 mins
Introducing social care and social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social care and social work

...Introduction: Introduction - This free course, Introducing social care and social work, will introduce you to different social care and social work practitioner roles. It will develop your understanding of the context in which social care and social work take place in the United Kingdom (UK). Social work and social care practitioners have a vital role in supporting and...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Effective writing in professional social work practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Effective writing in professional social work practice

...project also involved social work students, social work managers and service users. Figure 3 below details the data that was collected for this research study. [A visual diagram of eight boxes split into two rows.] Figure 3 The Writing in Social Work Practice (WiSP) Research Project The Open University social work team worked with a group of people who have experience of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs