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Design for beginners
Science, Maths & Technology

Design for beginners

...Open University answers these questions and others in this introduction to design basics. All design begins with translating ideas on to a canvas, and this collection encourages you to begin thinking about design principles from how letters are shaped to creating three dimensional models. This material forms part of The Open University course U101 Design thinking......
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Video 15 mins
The fascination with crime
Science, Maths & Technology

The fascination with crime

...Open University course T214 Understanding systems: making sense of complexity... The fascination with crime An introduction to this album. The notion of crime Open University criminology lecturer Louise Westmarland shares her interest and knowledge of criminology, justice and crime. Crime fiction versus crime reality Why are we so obsessed with crime fiction? Two...
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Audio 30 mins
The American Civil Rights Movement
History & The Arts

The American Civil Rights Movement

...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 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Supporting parents through pregnancy and birth distress
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting parents through pregnancy and birth distress

...Open University's Health and wellbeing courses and qualifications. Mental health difficulties during pregnancy and early parenthood (perinatal period) represent a significant public health issue. Many parents remain unheard, misunderstood, or fearful of disclosing their experiences. This article brings together the voice of parents, clinicians and academics to explore how...
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Article 5 mins
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Learning from sport burnout and overtraining

...resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Session 1: What is burnout?: Introduction - It was a combination of many things; sport, travelling, studies, trying to maintain personal relationships … everything together, it just did not work. I wanted to do everything too good and I pushed myself so far that I...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
STEM postgraduate research
Science, Maths & Technology

STEM postgraduate research

This content hub highlights the diverse range of topics explored by postgraduate research students in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) at The Open University.
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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
Sofas, car seats and toilet seats: where are your tweets read?
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Sofas, car seats and toilet seats: where are your tweets read?

...Educational institutions also promote their wares on Twitter and other social media. The holy grail? Engagement with potential customers / employers / employees / students... Research has been carried out into all sorts of aspects of using Twitter to engage people as well as to teach and learn among many other uses. We have a fair amount of data on how people engage with...
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Article 5 mins