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Aeroplane Design and Engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Aeroplane Design and Engineering

...care of the braking of the wheels and the steering of the aircraft. Typically the gear will be used for a maximum of 60,000 landings, after this it deemed unsafe for reuse - this is to ensure the safety of passengers. The need to reduce weight, volume, life-cycle cost and development time of the gear system whilst still being able to provide strength, stability,...
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Activity 20 mins
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Education & Development

Taking your first steps into higher education

...careful look at these works of art (Plates 3, 5a, 5b, 6 and 7) in the Resource booklet. For the moment, you should ignore the titles of these works. For each artwork, note your first impressions. These could include the first word that comes into your head when looking at the artwork, or the way the artwork makes you feel. Try to avoid thinking in depth about the subject...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM

...care and patience in the editing and production of this course. Thanks very much to our OpenLearn colleagues, Sas Amoah, Ana Collins, Catherine Halliwell, James Richards, Luke Yorke and Marcus Young who helped in the production process. Thanks also to colleagues in the Faculty of STEM at The Open University for their generosity in allowing us to use their projects (as...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Building motivation and resilience in research
Science, Maths & Technology

Building motivation and resilience in research

...care to others, and together we thought we had developed a really nice concept around what would be attractive to the funders. We worked on it for many weeks and submitted our proposal and waited to hear back. And three months later we heard that our proposal was not selected for further development and there wasn’t much feedback because there were too many proposals...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
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Money & Business

MSE’s Academy of Money

...care to assess your energy costs taking into account the support that you may receive from the Government for these. Even with such support, consumers’ energy bills will be higher than in previous years. Add in an amount for unexpected spending, e.g. to cover replacing household goods that break down. Having this emergency fund for unexpected expenses means you don’t...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Different types of business
Money & Business

Different types of business

...careful how they spend their money and that they have enough money coming in each month to pay staff and all their bills. This also means that they sometimes do not have the money to make further investments, even if these investments would repay themselves in a relatively short period of time by saving costs (e.g. investment in new, energy-efficient machinery) or...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Introducing philosophy
History & The Arts

Introducing philosophy

...care about their own future welfare? (2) is a misuse. Most people value the opportunity to inform themselves of different viewpoints and make up their own minds, and it is hard to see how their positive freedom would be increased by denying them this opportunity. (In this case, we would suspect that the government was trying to protect itself from criticism.) (3) is...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
When Heath met Nixon
History & The Arts

When Heath met Nixon

...care of itself. The turn of events will be sharply to the left, he said, if there is chaos after the British leave. "So we must have you there." A strong British presence is desirable - "if you can handle it." The Prime Minister replied that Britain's concern was really the opposite. "We can stay, but we must justify it by making a contribution to the area's economic...
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Article 15 mins