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What is Diwali?
History & The Arts

What is Diwali?

...of hope – to celebrate the power of light to triumph over darkness, and knowledge to conquer ignorance. Explore more: The importance of Diwali in 5 artworks Bettany Hugh’s Exploring India’s Treasures The history of Halloween - OpenLearn - Open University Hanukkah: a festival of light - OpenLearn - Open University Try a free course or study towards a qualification...
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An Untimely Death on Passchendaele Ward
Health, Sports & Psychology

An Untimely Death on Passchendaele Ward

...Open University's School of Health and Social Welfare explains why the drama was commissioned, and how it fits in with the aims of the course. He also gives an overview of the course and who it's aimed at, and talks about how he came to be involved in mental health education. This material forms part of K225, Diverse perspectives on mental health... An Untimely Death on...
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Systems engineering: Challenging complexity
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems engineering: Challenging complexity

...Source: Phillip Inman, the Guardian, Wednesday 6 July 2005...Systems engineering: challenging complexity: 1.2 The Phoenix project - It is all too easy to dismiss problems like that being experienced with the tax credit system as being inherent in the design and implementation of computer-based systems. But they are not restricted to computer systems, as the example of the...
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge
Society, Politics & Law

Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge

...sources of knowledge. Collective autoethnography (CoAE) takes this further. It is ‘a participatory and democratic research methodology distinct from other autoethnographic methodologies in its emphasis on co-constructing narratives’ (Karalis Noel, Minematsu and Bosca, 2023, p. 1). Owing to its focus on shared meaning-making and mutual respect, CoAE is particularly...
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A Black feminist approach to explore the policing of Black youth
Society, Politics & Law

A Black feminist approach to explore the policing of Black youth

...open to us, but one by one the doors were closed in our faces. In my opinion, what happened was the way of the judicial system making a clear statement, to make clear to Black people that in this country, that before the law, their lives were worth nothing”. The historicity of the stereotype of the Strong Black Mother – one who endures, one who does not feel pain or...
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Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom
Society, Politics & Law

Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom

...Open University course W250 Evidence law...This free course gives an overview of the law of expert evidence, including practice and procedure, the duties and liabilities of experts, the question of how non-experts can adjudicate between the views of experts, and the increasing mathematisation of scientific evidence. The various issues are finally brought together in a...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics – Welcome to the risk takers and the fearless
Health, Sports & Psychology

Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics – Welcome to the risk takers and the fearless

...opening ceremony for the 24th Winter Olympic Games will take place in the iconic Beijing National Stadium, also known as ‘The Birds Nest’. The Games will be opened by President Xi Jinping and will signal Beijing becoming the first city to host both the summer and winter versions of the Olympic Games. The Games will run until 20th February and there will be 109 events...
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The assassination of Franz Ferdinand
History & The Arts

The assassination of Franz Ferdinand

...Open University's History courses and qualifications [Franz Ferdinand approaching his Gräf & Stift car] On 28 June 1914, Gavrilo Princip, a Serbian nationalist, assassinated the Austrian heir to the throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo. To understand the importance of this event, imagine the Prince of Wales and his wife...
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