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Environment: Lake Baikal
Nature & Environment

Environment: Lake Baikal

...resources be exploited to support economic development? In Siberia, Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world and contains one fifth of the world’s freshwater. It has developed over 25 million years to be a truly unique eco-system - yet this lake is now an environment at serious risk. This album focuses on the growing environmental threats to the region, which was...
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Audio 28 mins
The learning design word wheel
Education & Development

The learning design word wheel

Are you creating a course? The Open University's Learning Design team have created a word wheel to help shape your planning...[The learning design word wheel] Click on the image above, to launch the interactive full screen.
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Activity 5 mins
EdD graduate stories
Education & Development

EdD graduate stories

Read about the experiences of a range of EdD graduates, and how their doctorate has shaped their lives professionally and personally...[The front cover of the eBook 'My EdD journey - OU student stories'] Click on the image above to open the eBook ​​
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Article 5 mins
Environmental management and organisations
Nature & Environment

Environmental management and organisations

...inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity. Don't miss out: If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University - www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
I-SPY: Internet infidelity and its impact on couple relationships
Health, Sports & Psychology

I-SPY: Internet infidelity and its impact on couple relationships

...Open University’s academics Andreas Vossler and Naomi Moller from the OU’s School of Psychology shows that relationship boundaries can be blurred online. This means that people in a relationship may be uncertain what online behaviours count as cheating. Their partners also may see things differently than they do. In addition to a lack of certainty about what online...
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Video 10 mins
The Arts Past and Present: Ireland
History & The Arts

The Arts Past and Present: Ireland

...Open University, elaborates on the issues addressed in the album. This material is drawn from The Open University course AA100 The arts past and present... The Arts Past and Present: Ireland A short introduction to this album. Attitudes to architectural heritage How Ireland's built heritage is being rapidly reshaped. Rebuilding after the rebellion How the new government...
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Audio 43 mins
Energy policy and climate change
Science, Maths & Technology

Energy policy and climate change

...Open University academic Godfrey Boyle in the run up to the Copenhagen Conference. He highlights the central issues that the conference aims to address, and gives an update on how European energy policies have changed since the films were made. This material forms part of The Open University course T206 Energy for a sustainable future... Energy policy and climate change A...
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Audio 1 hr 38 mins
How can statistics bring dead languages back to life?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can statistics bring dead languages back to life?

...educated guess is that it will be hardly any different from today!” For the team, the excitement of the research includes unearthing some gems of archival recordings of various languages that had been given up for dead, including an Old Prussian word last spoken by people in the early 1700s but ‘borrowed’ into Low Prussian and discovered in a German audio archive....
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Audio 5 mins