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Motive: Upper Intermediate German
Languages

Motive: Upper Intermediate German

...role of work; German media and arts; issues of faith and personal beliefs; and issues in recent Germany history. There is an integrated residential school which takes place in Germany. . This material is taken from The Open University Course L203 Motive: Upper Intermediate German... Child care in Germany Problems faced by German parents in balancing work and child care....
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Video 10 mins
Getting your Bearings
Science, Maths & Technology

Getting your Bearings

...Open mathematics... Getting your Bearings A short introduction to this album. Ordnance survey maps Learn how ordinance survey maps are accurately produced and quality controlled. Contour lines Three walkers begin a field trip navigating a route in the peak district. Taking a bearing Discover how to get your bearings with a compass and a map. A saddle point Using contour...
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Audio 27 mins
Could Islamic law be the key to defeating ISIS?
Society, Politics & Law

Could Islamic law be the key to defeating ISIS?

...sources to justify their actions. Traditional interpretations of Sharia, or Islamic law, approved aggressive jihad to propagate Islam. They permitted the killing of captive enemy men. They allowed jihadis to enslave enemy women and children, as ISIS did with the Yazidi women in Syria. I am a Muslim scholar of Sharia. It is my contention that ISIS' claim of Islamic...
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Digital carbon footprints and remote working
Nature & Environment

Digital carbon footprints and remote working

...Open University's Environment courses. Digital carbon footprints and the remote workforce Today many companies find themselves at the intersection of two global workforce megatrends – distributed, remote workforces and the phenomenon known as the Great Resignation. These two trends have disrupted the notion of the workplace and the employer’s sphere of workforce...
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Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations

...Open University's Centre for Voluntary Sector Leadership (CVSL). The CVSL was established thanks to the generous support of Mr Anthony Nutt BA. Please take our survey about this course to give us feedback, inform future work, and have the (optional) opportunity to get more involved if you are interested. You do not need to have finished studying this course in order to...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Looking at, describing and identifying objects
History & The Arts

Looking at, describing and identifying objects

...Open University course A105 Voices, texts and material culture...Looking at, describing and identifying objects: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate skills of observation and description of objects interpret objects and work towards writing object life cycles understand artefact databases...Looking at, describing and...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Microgravity: living on the International Space Station Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Microgravity: living on the International Space Station

...open course, Microgravity: living on the International Space Station, will help you to consider microgravity environments in more detail than before! You will make direct comparisons of some important physical values between the International Space Station (ISS), the Earth and the Moon...Welcome to this free badged open course on Microgravity! This course will be covering...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Fossil soft parts
Science, Maths & Technology

Fossil soft parts

...source of destruction for a dead organism is microbial decay. Dead organisms are a valuable nutrient resource and the activity of microbes recycles 90% or more of the organic matter in the environment (including dead organisms) before they are buried in the sediment. Scavenging organisms also contribute to the destruction of dead organisms. These feed on the flesh and in...
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