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Rounding and estimation
Science, Maths & Technology

Rounding and estimation

...system during the last year, relative to the Sun, and how fast we earthlings are travelling? In order to estimate this it is necessary to make some assumptions: assume that the path of the Earth's orbit around the Sun is circular; the distance between the Earth and the Sun is approximately 92 860 000 miles, which is the radius of the orbit; distance travelled in one year...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
An introduction to death, dying and grief
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to death, dying and grief

...system of the person who you are talking with; maybe your own belief system means that the terms you use are consistent. You may have found yourself using humour to talk about death as a coping mechanism, or have been aware of others doing this. Many people adapt the way they talk about death depending on the context they find themselves in. An Open University academic...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places
Society, Politics & Law

‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places

...system of places that compose the metropolis. It is in these districts draped in a sulfurous aura, where social problems gather and fester, that the urban outcasts of the turn of the century reside, which earns them the disproportionate and disproportionately negative attention of the media, politicians, and state managers. They are known, to outsider and insiders alike,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Exploring ancient Greek religion
History & The Arts

Exploring ancient Greek religion

...system (Kindt, 2015, p. 37). This means that the ancient Greeks did not consciously distinguish between these two terms as we do today in their everyday religious activity. As such, we can usefully look for elements of both ‘polis’ and ‘personal’ beliefs and practices within the same cult. This is the approach which will be adopted in this course, using the...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
What was Lewis Carroll like?
History & The Arts

What was Lewis Carroll like?

...system. I understood him to say that the effect was almost physical! "He said that he found it much easier to understand children, to get his mind into correspondence with their minds when he was fatigued with other work. Personally, I did not understand little children, and they seemed quite outside my experience, and rather incautiously I asked him if children never...
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Article 10 mins
The body in antiquity
History & The Arts

The body in antiquity

...systems of beliefs, values and ideas influencing the way they did things. In this way we can see the cultural beliefs and practices behind the things we do with our bodies as ‘cultural scripts’. This is a term that comes from linguistics and has a very specific meaning in that discipline, but here we mean something very similar to Bourdieu’s ‘habitus’. However,...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Teaching secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Teaching secondary modern foreign languages

...System, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 175–81. Nuffield Languages Inquiry (2000) 'Languages and the next generation, final report', London, The Nuffield Foundation. Cited in Hawkins E. (2002) ‘Drop out from language study at age 16+: a historical perspective’ in Swarbrick A. (ed.) Teaching Modern Foreign Languages in Secondary School, London, Routledge Farmer/The Open...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Earthquakes
Science, Maths & Technology

Earthquakes

...system waiting to go off. Eventually the distortion is enough to cause the rock to break and move, releasing energy in the form of an earthquake. The break is called a fault. It starts as a small fracture (Figure 2c), but grows rapidly (Figure 2d). In general, the larger the area of the fault, the greater is the size of the earthquake. The fault length (the length of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs