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Fiscal policy in the post-financial crisis era: debates and lessons learned
Society, Politics & Law

Fiscal policy in the post-financial crisis era: debates and lessons learned

...skills required to understand the world of production, employment, spending and borrowing, and the effects of government policy and technical innovation. Our economics degree programmes and modules are regularly updated to reflect the latest research and events. The OU Economics Seminar Series promotes high-quality research bringing together academics to exchange, share...
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Machine translation – using online tools to improve your language teaching
Education & Development

Machine translation – using online tools to improve your language teaching

...ever-increasing importance of digital literacy and artificial intelligence, they also equip language learners with an additional employability skill. References, sources and links von Lindeiner-Stráský, K. (2022). unpublished project report ‘Web-based Machine Translation in Language Learning, Teaching, and Assessment’, Praxis-Project, The Open University 2020-2022....
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Speeches and speech-making
History & The Arts

Speeches and speech-making

...study in Arts and Humanities...Speeches and speech-making: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate an understanding of some fundamental aspects of rhetoric demonstrate skills of textual analysis appreciate the importance of audience in relation to speech-making...Speeches and speech-making: 1 Voice - Having said that the word...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Art and life in ancient Egypt
History & The Arts

Art and life in ancient Egypt

...studied some practical aspects of decorating tomb walls and considered the skills of the artists and the principal conventions of ancient Egyptian art. As a result you should now be aware that thinking about ancient Egyptian art can help make you be more critically self-conscious about the representational conventions in your own culture...Week 5 The creative process:...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
Understanding depression and anxiety
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding depression and anxiety

...study of emotions and emotional disorders in the context of our evolutionary heritage, and goes on to consider how we might recognise emotional disorders, together with some of the problems associated with diagnosis and classification. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course SDK228 The science of the mind: investigating mental...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Social problems: Who makes them?
Society, Politics & Law

Social problems: Who makes them?

...study in Sociology...Social problems: Who makes them?: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: illustrate what is social about social science demonstrate how certain social constructions become dominant distinguish how labelling something can create expectations about behaviour and actions give examples of inequalities that result from...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Practising science: Reading the rocks and ecology
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising science: Reading the rocks and ecology

...study in Science...Practising science: reading the rocks and ecology: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: explain the difference between a mineral and a rock describe the textural differences between igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks account for these differences in terms of the processes that produce these rocks classify...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Design

...study in Design...Design: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: recognise that functional artefacts have had input from a designer, with greater and lesser degrees of engineering input identify that engineering designers work within constraints of finance, materials properties, desired functionality, human factors, etc. understand that...
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Level 1: Introductory 28 hrs