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Pain and Aspirin
Science, Maths & Technology

Pain and Aspirin

...concepts and principles relating to the development of medicines demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the science behind the development of some drugs to achieve particular tasks demonstrate knowledge and understanding of how chemical bonding determines the properties of compounds and provides an explanation for the mode of action of drugs apply this knowledge and...
Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Exploring the boundaries between religion and culture
History & The Arts

Exploring the boundaries between religion and culture

...de Santiago de Compostela in Spain, for reasons other than seeking redemption or specifically religious benefits. But music and pilgrimage routes are also carefully designed and presented for the benefit of religious people. In these and similar experiences, religion and culture inform each other...Exploring the boundaries between religion and culture: 2 Either/or or...
Hybrid working: skills for leadership
Money & Business

Hybrid working: skills for leadership

...prompt you to start thinking about how you can encourage your workforce to flourish and thrive in this new hybrid world and what you can do to help them grow and feel secure. ...How does the hybrid world make you feel as a leader? Do you feel out of control? Do you trust your team and workforce to get the job done, or are you much more comfortable having them within your...
Robert Owen and New Lanark
History & The Arts

Robert Owen and New Lanark

...conception of their moral identity. We know that he’s interested in, association of psychology that his basic sense of what the individual is, is a series of impressions formed by experience basically upon an empty of blank beginning. There is no fundamental predisposition towards good or evil, this is the crucial Owenite point. The notion that man does not form his own...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Approaching plays
History & The Arts

Approaching plays

...de Boys (brother to Orlando and Oliver) arrives with the news of the usurping Duke's sudden conversion to a life of religious solitude, and the reversion of the crown to his exiled brother, Rosalind's father. We have just analysed the play in terms of classical dramatic structure. Modern criticism has suggested other ways of looking at the play's structure, which you will...
Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Wilberforce
History & The Arts

Wilberforce

...conception of ‘natural rights’ rather than on the basis of historical patterns and precedents. Paine believed that such a vision was currently being realised in France. Radical Dissenters campaigned for civil equality with Anglicans. During the early 1790s there was a substantial movement of popular radical societies campaigning for political reform, centred on the...
Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Looking globally: the future of education Badge icon
Education & Development

Looking globally: the future of education

...prompted to ‘Think about’ certain questions and ideas. We would encourage you to note down your ideas in a way that is convenient for you, as you may find it helpful to refer to these when completing subsequent activities. Full details of the different types of activities you will participate in can be found in Activities and tools. The Open University would really...
What is a scientific model?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is a scientific model?

...concept, Carole Haswell discusses how they work in astronomy, Paul Donald explains their use in conservation science and hydrologist Nick Reynard talks about using models to simulate extreme weather events such as flooding. Question from Jim Hay: "I wonder if you could explain what a model is? The term is used so frequently on science programmes that I just let it slide...