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Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...manage just fine. A lot of children don't get the things they need from the parental home like love and attention, and our boys will always get that. So you know, is our impairment an issue? LAURENCE I don't think we're particularly special or unique or anything, but I do think because of the perception that less disabled people have kids. It's fine to have kids and...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Gaelic in modern Scotland
Languages

Gaelic in modern Scotland

...manager in the New Zealand government’s Ministry of Maori Development, described their strategy in a presentation to a conference on Gaelic organised by the Highland Council in Inverness in 2005. ‘By the late 1970s, it was predicted that the Maori language would be dead by 2010. This dire prediction sparked significant action to revitalise Maori in the early 1980s....
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences
Education & Development

Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences

...manager would have towards factory workers. Consequentialism: related to setting store by outcomes, however they are achieved. Virtue ethics: concerns the formation of ‘good’ character and presumes ‘good’ people will bring about ‘good’ things. Utilitarianism: concerned with maximising utility, which has been interpreted as maximising ‘happiness’ or...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs
Describing language Badge icon
Languages

Describing language

...manage your digital badges online from My OpenLearn. In addition, you can download and print your OpenLearn statement of participation – which also displays your Open University badge. The Open University would really appreciate a few minutes of your time to tell us about yourself and your expectations for the course before you begin, in our start-of-course survey. Once...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Start writing fiction: characters and stories
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction: characters and stories

...managing to portray character. The extracts are also available as a PDF for your convenience. The first thing that one noticed in Flory was a hideous birthmark stretching in a ragged crescent down his left cheek, from the eye to the corner of the mouth. Seen from the left side his face had a battered, woe-begone look, as though the birthmark had been a bruise – for it...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Succeed with maths: part 2 Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 2

...manageable). Multiply by 4. Add 6. Divide by 2. Subtract 3. Divide by 2. What do you notice about the answer? See if you can explain why this happens, either by using a diagram or by writing down the expressions for the answer at each stage, replacing your initial number with n again. Answer You should find that this time the answer is always the number you chose at the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Succeed with maths: part 1 Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 1

...manage your digital badges online from My OpenLearn. In addition, you can download and print your OpenLearn statement of participation - which also displays your Open University badge. The Open University would really appreciate a few minutes of your time to tell us about yourself and your expectations for the course before you begin, in our optional start-of-course...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Manufacturing
Science, Maths & Technology

Manufacturing

...management process responsible for identifying, anticipating and satisfying customer requirements profitably. Thus the marketing discipline covers those activities which identify what potential purchasers of products or services are looking for, who the potential customers are, what prices might be appropriate, and what method of sales, distribution and promotion might be...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs