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Learning to Groove
History & The Arts

Learning to Groove

...University explains how this informal type of music education is playing an important and alternative role. Jazz musician Gary Crosby and his partner Janine Irons share their story of how they set up the band and why they feel so passionate about giving opportunities to inner city children to learn how to play jazz and to guide them on their way to future success in the...
Pathways To Success in Higher Education
Education & Development

Pathways To Success in Higher Education

...guide created by The Open University in Wales. ...[PathwaysPDFCover] Pathways to Success Pathways to success is an interactive guide that will take you on a learning journey through a range of free online resources from The Open University's award winning OpenLearn website. It will help you: tailor some informal study to your own interests and goals gain an insight into...
Florence Nightingale on what makes a good nurse
Health, Sports & Psychology

Florence Nightingale on what makes a good nurse

...beginners, good courage; To our dear old workers, peace, fresh courage, too - perseverance: for to persevere to the end is as difficult & needs a yet better energy than to begin new work. To be a good nurse one must be a good woman, here we shall all agree. It is the old, old story. But some of us are new to the start. What is it to be "like a woman"? "Like a woman" - "a...
Antigone: List of Characters
History & The Arts

Antigone: List of Characters

...University's Classical Studies qualifications The heroine Antigone is one of the four children of Oedipus (her siblings are Ismene, Eteocles and Polyneices). A loyal daughter, she guided the blind Oedipus into exile before he died, and she’ll be equally faithful to her dead brother Polyneices. Oedipus was king of Thebes, a city in central Greece. He is famous in Greek...
Ouverture: Intermediate French
Languages

Ouverture: Intermediate French

...strategies. This material is taken from The Open University Course L120 Ouverture: Intermediate French... A holiday in France A tourist impression of a summer holiday by the sea. Fashion City, Paris A guide into some of the tourists' favourite destinations in France. From the locals' perspective Parisians give their views on the ever-booming tourism industry in Paris....
Getting started with Italian 2
Languages

Getting started with Italian 2

...University course LGXI002 Beginners Italian 2: in cammino...Week 2: Talking about the time (continued): Next steps - We hope that you’ll continue your Italian studies with The Open University on our Beginners Italian courses: Beginners Italian 1: primi passi Beginners Italian 2: in cammino Beginners Italian 3: stai andando bene! Or ......
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Wellbeing and mental health collection
Health, Sports & Psychology

Wellbeing and mental health collection

...was funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales. It was delivered by The Open University in Wales in partnership with Wrexham Glyndŵr University, Addysg Oedolion Cymru | Adult Learning Wales and The Open University Students’ Association. The contents of the collection were guided by full and part-time students across all three education providers....
What is language?
Languages

What is language?

...we can particularly recommend the following courses: Or, if you’re looking for a course to develop your skills in a language, these are some of our best options in a wide variety of languages, whether you’re a complete beginner or just a little out of practice: These are our curated top picks, but much more can be found in the Languages section of the OpenLearn site....