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Narratives of COVID
Health, Sports & Psychology

Narratives of COVID

...Open University, we reached out to students, staff and alumni to hear about their experiences. ...Find out more about The Open University's Health and Social Care qualification. These have been collated into a book – Narratives of COVID: loss, dying, death and grief during COVID-19 with over 30 authors from the OU contributing. The book includes essays, poems, and...
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What is the difference between distributive and commutative justice: A one minute guide
History & The Arts

What is the difference between distributive and commutative justice: A one minute guide

...Open University's Philosophy Courses and qualifications [Aristotle said there were two types of justice] [Distributive justice - how wealth work rights and so on are shared fairly within a community] [Commutative justice - members of a group are treated equally - for example, by the law] [But each society or group will have its own ideas about what is just or a right, and...
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The science of making musical instruments
Science, Maths & Technology

The science of making musical instruments

...Open University's Music courses and qualifications Interested in the technology of music? You can study that with The Open University What is the science of music? Music is generally thought to be an art rather than a science but what is the science behind the production of music? And can three 'tone-deaf' scientists use these principles to make musical instruments and...
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Ouverture: Intermediate French
Languages

Ouverture: Intermediate French

...sources. The course materials are carefully designed to develop the four language skills of speaking, listening, reading and writing. They also contain activities focusing on practicing language structures, grammatical explanations and learning strategies. This material is taken from The Open University Course L120 Ouverture: Intermediate French... A holiday in France A...
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EPQs: finding and using evidence
Education & Development

EPQs: finding and using evidence

...open, broad source of evidence (Wikipedia) to using more serious sources (Google Scholar). There’s more on where and how to look for evidence in Section 4. You will know that Wikipedia, despite having information about hundreds of thousands of topics, is not a 100% reliable source. Wikipedia can be a good place to start your research, get your ideas moving and find...
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My experience as a shop steward: British Leyland in the 1960s and 1970s
Society, Politics & Law

My experience as a shop steward: British Leyland in the 1960s and 1970s

...source of employment for an overwhelmingly male workforce drawn from across Central Scotland...Find out more about The Open University's Open degree qualification. British Leyland bathgate The Bathgate factory was one of several factories established in central Scotland during the 1950s and 1960s under UK government regional policies. The main goal of these was to...
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Crowdsourced annotation: what do you think?
History & The Arts

Crowdsourced annotation: what do you think?

...sources...In this third intermediate activity in the OpenLearn Herodotus Collection, we suggest you take a look at two different annotations for the first few chapters in ‘The Histories’, Book 1. One is RapGenius, an online ‘crowdsourced annotation’, the other is the academic authoritative work by How and Wells, available via Project Gutenberg or the Perseus...
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Some of all human knowledge: Wikipedia at 15
Digital & Computing

Some of all human knowledge: Wikipedia at 15

...source for information. This raises more problems than just a few missing citations...As Wikipedia turns 15, volunteer editors worldwide will be celebrating with themed cakes and edit-a-thons aimed at filling holes in poorly covered topics. It’s remarkable that a user-editable encyclopedia project that allows anyone to edit has got this far, especially as the website is...
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