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OpenLearn's response to the pandemic
Education & Development

OpenLearn's response to the pandemic

...University’s (OU) pioneering experience in distance learning to give 18 million people access to vital educational resources to help develop new skills since the UK’s first lockdown in March 2020. At the start of the first lockdown, daily visitors to OpenLearn increased overnight from 40,000 to over 200,000 and the team acted quickly to put essential learning...
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Why we’re mapping a million trees and more!
Nature & Environment

Why we’re mapping a million trees and more!

...University's Geography courses and qualifications Trees have been in the news a lot recently with political parties trying to outdo each other on tree planting pledges. As the climate crisis has risen up the political agenda, trees and tree planting have been recognised as an important response since they take up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as they grow. A recent...
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The science of making musical instruments
Science, Maths & Technology

The science of making musical instruments

...University's Music courses and qualifications Interested in the technology of music? You can study that with The Open University What is the science of music? Music is generally thought to be an art rather than a science but what is the science behind the production of music? And can three 'tone-deaf' scientists use these principles to make musical instruments and maybe...
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Why are people superstitious?
History & The Arts

Why are people superstitious?

...University's Social Sciences courses and qualifications If so, you are not alone. Everyday superstitions are widespread, with surveys regularly finding at least a quarter of the UK population being actively superstitious. Often, they take the form of harmless habits. But it’s worth considering what superstitions are and how they come about. As we will see, they rely on...
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The drive to sustainability in Higher Education
Nature & Environment

The drive to sustainability in Higher Education

...University with the first major quantitative study, the ‘Factor 10 Visions’ study ‘Towards Sustainable HE’ (Roy et al. 2005; Roy et al. 2008) followed by the Jisc-funded SusTEACH research and development project – ‘Sustainability Tools for Environmental Appraisal of Carbon impacts of HE teaching models using ICTs’ that I was involved in (Caird et al. 2015a)....
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Learning from the Global South
Society, Politics & Law

Learning from the Global South

...from the Global South is a series of six short films made to stimulate thinking about and reflection on the difference that geography makes to understanding the climate crisis and its impact..._Find out more about The Open University's Geography courses and qualifications. _ Many contexts, one journey: a virtual fieldtrip across the Global South Click on the icons within...
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Introducing consciousness
History & The Arts

Introducing consciousness

...University course (AA308) that is no longer available. The content has been used as the basis for a section of Part 1 of the MA in Philosophy (A853) qualification. Tell us what you think! We’d love to hear from you to help us improve our free learning offering through OpenLearn by filling out this short survey...Introducing consciousness: Learning outcomes - After...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Teaching Spanish pronunciation
Languages

Teaching Spanish pronunciation

...guide/ References Hualde, José Ignacio. The Sounds of Spanish, 2005, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Ladefoged, Peter and Johnson, Keith. A Course in Phonetics. (6th ed.), 2010, Boston, Massachusetts: Wadsworth Publishing. Maddieson, Ian. Patterns of Sounds,1984, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Paperback reprint 2009. Navarro Tomás, Tomás....
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs