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Obesity: balanced diets and treatment
Science, Maths & Technology

Obesity: balanced diets and treatment

...education plays a key role in providing people with the knowledge of what constitutes a healthy diet, but as is so often the way with science, the information keeps changing. The information about what we should be eating comes from various sources: in the UK a large amount of data was collected and published by COMA, the Committee on Medical Aspects of Food Policy...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Challenging ideas in mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Challenging ideas in mental health

...educational/academic analysis and fulfilling the learning outcomes of the course. No endorsement or approval by The Open University or OpenLearn of these or any other advertisements which may be used in an educational teaching and learning context should be construed. See Terms and Conditions. Course image: Rebecca L. Daily in Flickr made available under Creative Commons...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Nine days' wonder in York
History & The Arts

Nine days' wonder in York

...educated accent, though with few and wandering aspirates in it. Him I visited every morning to buy for my breakfast one of those Spanish melons which they have everywhere in England, and which put our native cantaloupes to shame; and we always fell into a little talk over our transaction of fourpence or sixpence, as the case might be. After I had confided that I was an...
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Article 10 mins
Passports: identity and airports
Society, Politics & Law

Passports: identity and airports

...education to the children of the poor, systemised this practise. By the nineteenth century, branding and marking were no longer widely acceptable as means of identification. While clothing persisted as a guide to social identity, more universal means of identification were sought. Passport systems were widely used throughout nineteenth century Europe and included security...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Commercial awareness
Money & Business

Commercial awareness

...Education team in The Open University Business School. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Health and safety in the laboratory and field
Science, Maths & Technology

Health and safety in the laboratory and field

...education authority was prosecuted for not having produced written risk assessments. For field-work, the Boy Scout motto ‘Be prepared’ is important, as one of the major hazards is inclement or changeable weather. One may start up a mountain in bright sunshine, but the weather can quickly change to a blizzard; this can result in a dangerous situation because of loss of...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Language in the real world
Languages

Language in the real world

...educated and was having a considerably easier time of things if you like. And so, I then could take this as this is only London this is happening, speculate about other, say, urban environments in Europe, and also connect this up with the general issues around globalisation and migration that are taking place. So, for example, somebody from Colombia is specifically from...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Understanding musical scores
History & The Arts

Understanding musical scores

...education. DAVID ROWLAND And does that notation tell us anything about the rhythm? SUSAN RANKIN No. It tells us no more about the rhythm than the older pneumatic notation told us. But in fact, as long as people were singing that kind of music, there was no problem. Because they knew what the rhythm was, and they could read the text. And they could understand the...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs