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Time management and study
Health, Sports & Psychology

Time management and study

...work out exactly how you can fit studying around other commitments. Using a planner helps you schedule each event, appointment and task so you don't run out of time. You can use it to set deadlines to help you stay on track and plan in extra time for yourself and spending time with your loved ones. For further, extensive advice, The Open University provides plenty of...
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Article 10 mins
Dolly The Sheep: What happened next?
Science, Maths & Technology

Dolly The Sheep: What happened next?

...working with mammalian embryos for over 40 years, with some work in my lab specifically focusing on various methods of cloning cattle and other livestock species. In fact, one of the coauthors of the paper announcing Dolly worked in our laboratory for three years prior to going to Scotland to help create the famous clone. Dolly was an important milestone, inspiring...
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Article 10 mins
Why mental fitness is as important as physical fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why mental fitness is as important as physical fitness

...working on, what are the strengths, what are the weaknesses, what are our threats, you know, from the opposition, from how we could go wrong and then have a very clear plan of, you know, what we’re going to achieve when we get to the race or when we get to the Olympics. And I think writing it down is really important because then you know exactly what it is you’ve...
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Video 10 mins
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Accessibility statement for OpenLearn

...working basis. Interactive activities Some of our interactive activities might fail aspects of WCAG criteria. We are in the process of auditing and rebuilding these materials, and the following actions are in progress: We will rebuild interactive activities, including those created by third-party suppliers, by December 2026. Interactive activities will be individually...
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Article 5 mins
Empires: power, resistance, legacies
History & The Arts

Empires: power, resistance, legacies

...work of other historians...Introduction: Moving around the course - In the ‘Summary’ at the end of each session, you will find a link to the next session. If at any time you want to return to the start of the course, click on ‘Full course description’. From here you can navigate to any part of the course. It’s also good practice, if you access a link from within...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Dominic Weston - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dominic Weston - Earth in Vision

...works as hard as it could to engage a contemporary audience he is currently series producing Savage Kingdom with Icon Films and NHFU Botswana for National Geographic Wild - a ground-breaking six-parter about the dangerously interconnected lives of competing clan predators in a kingdom far, far away. Transcript Earth in Vision Project My name is Dominic Weston, I’m a...
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Video 30 mins
Philosophy: the nature of persons
History & The Arts

Philosophy: the nature of persons

...work through the course, you will notice that this area of enquiry has developed its own semi-technical vocabulary. The plural of ‘person’ is, in this area of enquiry, ‘persons’ rather than ‘people’. It is easy to see the reason for this. The question ‘What are people?’ is potentially confusing. It could mean ‘What is it to be a people (as opposed to...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Decision trees and dealing with uncertainty
Money & Business

Decision trees and dealing with uncertainty

...works because they're what we call mutually exclusive events. A number greater than 3 cannot be both odd and even. So each of the numbers: 4, 5, and 6 can only be an even number or an odd number. And when you have mutually exclusive events, you can do this adding up calculation. So one way of calculating the probability of an outcome is to compare the number of ways that...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs