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52 things you never knew about OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

52 things you never knew about OpenLearn

...history of Ireland taken from our OU/BBC co-production Ireland with Simon Reeve, and a free course on Gaelic in Modern Scotland as well as articl collections on Red Cydeside. Transcripts STUDENTS Open University students who use OpenLearn are 5-10% more likely to pass and progress to their next module, than those who do not. Interested in our full course catalogue now? We...
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Exploring immortality
History & The Arts

Exploring immortality

...history. One specific incident she has explored was the 1938 kuṭīpraveśika rejuvenation treatment of Pandit Mohan Malaviya (1861–1946), nationalist leader and chancellor of Benares Hindu University by a sadhu reputed to be over 200 years old at the time (Swami Tapasviji aka Tapsi Baba (c. 1770?–1955). [Pandit Malaviya] Photographs of Pandit Malaviya before and...
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Astrobiology from the ground up
Science, Maths & Technology

Astrobiology from the ground up

...history of anthropology as a discipline will be of paramount importance, whereas for a younger scientific discipline, such as astrobiology, that may not be an obvious problem; as a new science, a new discipline, the historical connection of coloniality and relationships between colonised and colonisers is not in its framing. That can be a place where tensions arise. A...
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Impossible Peace 2: On a wing and a prayer
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: On a wing and a prayer

...history in a frame. In 2005, the former Methodist President Harold Good was a church witness to IRA decommissioning. They gave him this boiler suit to wear in the fields of rural Ireland, and he gave them a prayer - the timeless words of St Francis of Assisi. Image - Marie Therese Hurson [Written note from Harold Good. See details below for full transcript.]Harold Good -...
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What can Earth tell us about Mars?
Science, Maths & Technology

What can Earth tell us about Mars?

...history they might not have been extremely saline; it’s possible conditions in Mars’s waters might have been quite clement. One of the great things about working in AstrobiologyOU is that I work with colleagues whose research skills are in different areas to mine, and we can add them together. Some of my colleagues run sophisticated computer models that can take what...
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Discovering development management
Money & Business

Discovering development management

...histories (within broader histories involving different mixes of interested parties). These differences include: interests values agendas cultures. Another difference relates to power. I’ve set this apart from the other factors; this is partly to signal the significance of power in any process of development management (though that is not to devalue the other factors),...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Children’s wellbeing and creativity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Children’s wellbeing and creativity

...history and can be traced back to Ancient Greek philosophy, in particular, the work of Aristotle, who wrote extensively using the term eudaimonia to describe human happiness, contentment and feelings of wellbeing. More contemporary discussions about wellbeing cross over many academic disciplines, spanning philosophy, psychology, sociology and anthropology. The...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Population ageing: a global health crisis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Population ageing: a global health crisis?

...history the young have always outnumbered the elderly. Over the next 40 years this will change. The population over 60 will grow by 1 billion to a total of 2 billion. For the first time in human history, there will be more people over 60 than under 15. 1 in every 5 people will be elderly. In 1950 there were 12 working people for every elderly person. Today: 9. 2050: 4....
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs