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Learning to Groove
History & The Arts

Learning to Groove

...Open University explains how this informal type of music education is playing an important and alternative role. Jazz musician Gary Crosby and his partner Janine Irons share their story of how they set up the band and why they feel so passionate about giving opportunities to inner city children to learn how to play jazz and to guide them on their way to future success in...
All the Fun of the Fair
Science, Maths & Technology

All the Fun of the Fair

...Open University course MST209 Mathematical methods and models... All the Fun of the Fair A short introduction to this album. Circular Motion and the Chairoplane Roundabout The Nottingham Goose fair provides the backdrop to numerous examples of circular motion. A ride showing uniform motion in the horizontal plane. The Millennium and the Hangover Rides showing uniform...
Mind the Medicine Gap
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mind the Medicine Gap

...of The Open University investigates the idea that the patent system is too blunt an instrument to serve the interests of both pharmaceutical companies and the poor like Lemlem. There are smart solutions though; ways for everybody to win. Big questions. Fascinating answers... Mind the Medicine Gap An insight to why people in poor countries have less access to medicines....
Exploring critical social work practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring critical social work practice

...course is an adapted extract from the Open University course K355 Critical thinking in social work practice....Exploring critical social work practice: Introduction - This free course introduces what is meant by critical social work practice, and its activities will help you to develop the kinds of skills you need as a social work student, or as a qualified...
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...
Introducing music research
History & The Arts

Introducing music research

...on music. Transcript This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course A890 _MA Music part 1._...Introducing music research: Introduction - This free course gathers together a range of materials to enable you to explore some of the many possibilities for research music. It gives you a series of snapshots of musicology, emphasising both the breadth of musical topics that might be studied by......
Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Download free eBook guides to famous literary works
History & The Arts

Download free eBook guides to famous literary works

...open) Great Expectations [A collection of covers for a collection of eBooks inspired by the BBC Four series The Secret Life of Books] Frankenstein [A collection of covers for a collection of eBooks inspired by the BBC Four series The Secret Life of Books] Mrs Dalloway [A collection of covers for a collection of eBooks inspired by the BBC Four series The Secret Life of...
Being heard
Education & Development

Being heard

...Open University's Open courses I am a Staff Tutor, which means I look after those people who teach at the OU. For me, YXM130 provides opportunities for exploration and looking at a problem, or theme, from all kinds of perspectives. If I was to study YXM130, I would explore how people can make themselves heard, how we listen to one another and how we can communicate in the...
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