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Obesity: balanced diets and treatment
Science, Maths & Technology

Obesity: balanced diets and treatment

...education plays a key role in providing people with the knowledge of what constitutes a healthy diet, but as is so often the way with science, the information keeps changing. The information about what we should be eating comes from various sources: in the UK a large amount of data was collected and published by COMA, the Committee on Medical Aspects of Food Policy...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Challenging ideas in mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Challenging ideas in mental health

...educational/academic analysis and fulfilling the learning outcomes of the course. No endorsement or approval by The Open University or OpenLearn of these or any other advertisements which may be used in an educational teaching and learning context should be construed. See Terms and Conditions. Course image: Rebecca L. Daily in Flickr made available under Creative Commons...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems
History & The Arts

Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems

...Des Knaben Wunderhorn (Youth's Magic Horn, 1806–8), was dedicated to Goethe, and was described by him as an essential volume for any household. Something of the impulse underlying this interest in folk-song is shown by the preface to a collection by J.G. Naumann (1784): The times in which dazzling and forced styles found approval are past. Men who had a deeper feeling...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Psychological research, obedience and ethics
Society, Politics & Law

Psychological research, obedience and ethics

...educate the naïve. We go out of our way to help others to learn. So I was interested in whether that might actually happen in meerkats. Young pups need to learn how to catch and kill things like scorpions. So I was interested in whether adults would teach them how to do this. And in fact this is what seems to be the case. So they will bring prey that’s alive, but...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Starting with psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Starting with psychology

...education, ambition and chastity were seen as more important for choosing a spouse while in Nigeria, citizens ranked good health, refinement/neatness and desire for home/children highest. Also, most of the research carried out in this area has focused on heterosexual relationships. However it has been found that there are far more similarities between homosexual and...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Passports: identity and airports
Society, Politics & Law

Passports: identity and airports

...education to the children of the poor, systemised this practise. By the nineteenth century, branding and marking were no longer widely acceptable as means of identification. While clothing persisted as a guide to social identity, more universal means of identification were sought. Passport systems were widely used throughout nineteenth century Europe and included security...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Commercial awareness
Money & Business

Commercial awareness

...Education team in The Open University Business School. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Language in the real world
Languages

Language in the real world

...educated and was having a considerably easier time of things if you like. And so, I then could take this as this is only London this is happening, speculate about other, say, urban environments in Europe, and also connect this up with the general issues around globalisation and migration that are taking place. So, for example, somebody from Colombia is specifically from...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs