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History How-to videos: Metal detection
History & The Arts

History How-to videos: Metal detection

...researching different types of artefacts and coins that I found, so that gave me an interest in history that started growing in me over the years. When you go on a new site that you know has got a good bit of history there is a good bit of excitement there and you’re envisaging, you’re actually trying to look under the soil. In your brain, you envisage all these...
Open Hip Hop
History & The Arts

Open Hip Hop

...research and share their work in a managed safe environment...WHY: Following two very successful biannual conferences, feedback from our delegates and supporters have led us to conclude that this type of platform is both innovative and essential and requires an ongoing effort to secure a structured, organised and accessible space for Hip Hop Education. WHAT: Our aim is to...
Article 5 mins
What is the national learning hub for volunteers?
Education & Development

What is the national learning hub for volunteers?

...needs and opportunities? These free OpenLearn courses will help you on your quest, featuring topics like: communication relationship skills human resources freedom to act physical effort mental effort emotional effort working conditions business acumen skills research and development Get started and discover content with our website for people who work with volunteers....
Women in Science
Science, Maths & Technology

Women in Science

...Researcher, Clare Warren, nominates Dorothy Hodgkin - the first British woman to win a Nobel Prize. Barbara McClintock American geneticist Barbara McClintock won a Nobel for her pioneering work on genetic transposition. Chosen by Dr Hilary MacQueen, Head of the Department of Life Sciences at The Open University. Women in Science Today All the speakers work at The Open...
Freeing people caught between life and death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freeing people caught between life and death

...Research Centre in the 1990s, he was surprised when PET brain scans revealed that the patients could respond to a mention of their own name: meaningful sounds produced a change in blood flow within the auditory primary cortices. Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, Nicholas Schiff was finding that within catastrophically injured brains lay partially working...
Watching the weather
Nature & Environment

Watching the weather

...centre of the Earth. The horizontal axis is marked in units of the radius of the satellite's orbit divided by the radius of the Earth (which is about 6400 km). A value of 1.0 on this scale indicates ground level. Values smaller than 1.0 do not represent a real situation, since the satellite would be underground! Figure 5 Graph showing the duration of a single orbit (the...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Veiling
History & The Arts

Veiling

...centre of many different controversies. Many of these controversies can be understood in the context of debates about different citizenship models and different understandings of the roles, rights and demands of faith groups in society. In some instances, such controversies have resulted in legal disputes and the creation of new laws...This free course explores...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Motivation and factors affecting motivation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Motivation and factors affecting motivation

...centred view Theory says that motivation is due to a person's individual characteristics, e.g. their personality Personality will predict whether or not they will be motivated Ignores the influence that the situation may have on the individual Situation-centred view Interactional view Comment Table 2 Summary of the three approaches to motivation NAME OF APPROACH BRIEF...