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Innovation, markets and industrial change
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation, markets and industrial change

...study in Sociology...Innovation, markets and industrial change: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: appreciate the importance of technological change, costs of production and consumer preferences to the changing organisation of production understand the relation between the quantity demanded of a good and its price as represented by the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Getting started on classical Latin
History & The Arts

Getting started on classical Latin

...studying a classical language involves. The course will give you a taster of what is involved in the very early stages of learning Latin and will offer you the opportunity to put in some early practice...This free course, Getting started on classical Latin, has been developed in response to requests from learners who had had no contact with Latin before and who felt they...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Understanding society: families
Education & Development

Understanding society: families

...studying family life. We will begin with a summary of how work in the home has changed over the last fifty years or so, and look at the situation now, at the start of the twenty first century. You will also be given the opportunity to explore how different families may have different ideas about how work should be divided up. The course concludes with an investigation...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Mission to Titan
Science, Maths & Technology

Mission to Titan

...studied in the world’s leading scientific journals for years to come... Mission to Titan An brief introduction to this album. The Cassini-Huygens Probe Adam Hart-Davies introduces one of the most ambitious space exploration missions ever launched. Titan: first glimpse OU professor John Zarnecki shows the first ever panoramic images of Titan to Adam Hart-Davis. Titan:...
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Audio 22 mins
Heritage, whose heritage?
History & The Arts

Heritage, whose heritage?

...heritage mean? A professor of cultural studies discusses how concepts of heritage have changed. Perceptions of heritage Comparisons between British and Afro-caribbean values and concepts of heritage. Save Britain's Heritage How architectural heritage is fundamental to a sense of nationhood and identity and why it's vital to preserve it, according to campaign group Save....
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Audio 1 hr 7 mins
Partnerships: working across boundaries
Money & Business

Partnerships: working across boundaries

...study features Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders), and examines how this large global humanitarian relief organisation harnesses a variety of relationships to help people in extreme emergency situations. This material forms part of The Open University course B822 Creativity, innovation and change... Working across boundaries An introduction to this...
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Audio 38 mins
For some people, staying awake might help fight depression
Health, Sports & Psychology

For some people, staying awake might help fight depression

...studies during the 1970s. By systematically depriving depressed people of sleep, he confirmed that spending a single night awake could jolt them out of depression. Benedetti became interested in this idea as a young psychiatrist in the early 1990s. Prozac had been launched just a few years earlier, hailing a revolution in the treatment of depression. But such drugs were...
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Article 15 mins
Simple coding
Digital & Computing

Simple coding

...skills, concepts and jargon of coding. ...Have you ever wanted to try out simple coding? Want to understand the basics of what it entails? This course introduces you to the skills, concepts and jargon of coding. ...Simple coding: 1 Introduction - Software makes the world go round. Cars and TVs have software that controls how they work, and global commerce and finance are...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs