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General Election 2015 - 79Rewind
Society, Politics & Law

General Election 2015 - 79Rewind

...Education and the General Election of 1979 Alan Shipman explains how Teachers were not the only unionised, previously Labour-loyal employees who were switching towards the Conservatives in 1979 9 days: 1979 Tory lead dropped by 7% in 7 days according to poll conducted for The Observer Find out more about opinion polls with these short videos 'Opinion polls in a nutshell'...
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Activity 5 mins
Exercise and mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exercise and mental health

...Education, Child and Youth Qualifications. It took you through a series of exercises designed to develop your approach to study and learning at a distance and helped to improve your confidence as an independent learner. This resource is part of the ‘Wellbeing and Mental Health Collection’ collated by The Open University in Wales. You can find out more and discover...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
The Scottish Parliament and law making Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

The Scottish Parliament and law making

...education UK defence and national security local government the fiscal, economic and monetary system economic development immigration and nationality tourism energy: electricity, coal, gas and nuclear energy criminal law common markets civil law trade and industry, including competition and customer protection agriculture and food railways, transport safety and regulation...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Engineering: The nature of problems
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The nature of problems

...education, but in this programme the workers were explaining how batteries were expensive or unavailable and electricity supplies unreliable or simply non-existent. The programme provided Baylis with a problem, and inspired him to find an innovative solution. Baylis's invention, as you have probably guessed, was the clockwork radio, Figure 2. He wasn't the first person to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 40 hrs
10 incredible people whose stories you'll find on OpenLearn
History & The Arts

10 incredible people whose stories you'll find on OpenLearn

...Menabrea’s description of the Analytical Engine ‘Notions sur la machine analytique de Charles Babbage’ from the original French. At first she was content to perform only the translation, but at Babbage’s instigation, she began to add extensive annotations to the original text. These ‘algebraic working’s are what we would now call a computer program – they were the commands that would be punched into Jacquard cards and fed......
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Article 15 mins
Particle physics
Science, Maths & Technology

Particle physics

...Education, the educational arm of The Exilarch's Foundation. This OpenLearn science course was updated with the kind support of Dangoor Education340, the educational arm of The Exilarch's Foundation...This free course, Particle physics, will give you an overview of current concepts and theories in the field. You will learn about the fundamental components of matter –...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Engineering: environmental fluids
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: environmental fluids

...de Coriolis (1792–1843) who pioneered the study of rotating frames of reference. The Coriolis acceleration The Coriolis acceleration arises in any situations when an object or body travels towards or away from the axis of a rotating frame of reference. The combination of rotation and distance from the axis results in a linear velocity, so if the distance changes the...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Approaching language, literature and childhood
Education & Development

Approaching language, literature and childhood

...educational purpose for child readers. In the next activity, you’ll look at what children’s literature is traditionally considered to be for. [Described image] Figure 3 Writing for instruction or delight?...Approaching language, literature and childhood: 2.1 The key questions - During the rest of this section, you’ll read and reflect on some academic material over...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs