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School geography: Exploring a definition
Education & Development

School geography: Exploring a definition

...concepts for school geography and its educational value. The course also includes a lesson plan and a look at definitions of geography as a medium of education. Find out more about studying with The Open University by visiting our online prospectus...School geography: exploring a definition: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: open up...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Right to die: what about other circumstances?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Right to die: what about other circumstances?

...concept with two people discussing topic] Research suggests that one person a fortnight travels from the UK to Switzerland to end their lives. Often they will have a terminal illness but it isn’t always the case. In 2015, 75-year old Gill Pharoah’s trip to Lifecircle was well-publicised. Indeed, she wrote a blog for The Sunday Times about her choice. In her case, she...
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Chinese at the tip of your tongue: Culture behind the numbers
Languages

Chinese at the tip of your tongue: Culture behind the numbers

...concepts, such as heaven, lake, fire, water. At the centre of bā guà is the yin and the yang symbol. The bā guà was seen as guidance of life in the old days, and has been given numerous applications such as planning the layout of the city and diagnosing in traditional Chinese medicine. That is probably why the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games opened at 8pm on the 8th day of...
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Video 5 mins
Engendering citizenship
Society, Politics & Law

Engendering citizenship

...concept for women and for other groups? Prof. Ruth Lister At a very basic level citizenship is about membership of a community and it’s about the rights and obligations that flow from that membership and it’s a very useful way of looking at and campaigning around women’s exclusions from full citizenship, full membership and the way women’s rights are still...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?
Nature & Environment

‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?

...concepts can be useful in making sense of the complexity of environmental issues; in this case the issues of right to land and food prices. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course DST206 Environment: sharing a dynamic planet...‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Design

...concept for the V12 Vanquish (Figure 6). This concept was unveiled at various motor shows during 1998, and its favourable reception led Aston Martin to decide to put the model into production as soon as possible. The main body of the V12 Vanquish is formed from extruded aluminium sections, bonded and riveted around a central transmission tunnel made from carbon fibre. At...
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Level 1: Introductory 28 hrs
Goal-setting for a better world: Millennium Development Goals and Post-2015 Development Agenda
Society, Politics & Law

Goal-setting for a better world: Millennium Development Goals and Post-2015 Development Agenda

...concept of sustainable development. Brundtland report (1987) defines it as: Sustainable development being development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. As such, it weaves together social, economic, cultural and environmental issues with focus being made on world’s poor as well as the...
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Article 5 mins
Using sources: Considering breadth as well as depth
Education & Development

Using sources: Considering breadth as well as depth

...concepts, models and theories from associated module units and related texts. These are your core sources of information. You will be identifying these to demonstrate for example, that you understand and acknowledge a theory as, say, underpinning an example, a case study that addresses the subject of your assignment. You may however have an opportunity to use a broader...
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Article 10 mins