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Bioinformatics: a new asset in the Disease Detectives toolkit
Science, Maths & Technology

Bioinformatics: a new asset in the Disease Detectives toolkit

...history, which included time in the Amazon region, doctors were able to prescribe the correct antibiotics. The infection cleared and her vision returned. [image of bacteria] Why DNA databases matter This kind of success is only possible because the Leptospira strain had already been detected in the wild, sequenced and added to a reference database. Metagenomics can only...
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Supporting children's development
Education & Development

Supporting children's development

...family and in schools. It is not intended to be a comprehensive account of how children grow and develop. What it aims to consider are some of the experiences and challenges faced by children and their parents/carers in society today and introduces you to important theories of how children develop and mature. This section is divided into three topics: The importance of...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin
History & The Arts

Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin

...history as a language of literature begins not with the written word but with music and performance in the shape of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey (eighth century BCE) and a great body of ‘lyric’ poetry performed at festivals and symposia (aristocratic drinking parties). At the same time it was also in daily use in Greek settlements across the Aegean sea, the coast of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change
Education & Development

Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change

...family and community in holistic ways...Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change: 1.2 Where would you like to be? - The experience of being within cultures underpinned by the values and priorities evident in Activity 1 will be profoundly different and produce very different teaching practices. In a Turkish study of more than 400 teachers for instance (Sonmez & Gokmenoglu,...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision

...history to smuggle in broader environmental messages, or at least that would be the point of the show or the film, but if you said to the channel controller, ‘This is an environmental film’ it probably wouldn’t get green lit. I mean things have changed. I’m talking about a period in maybe up to five, ten years ago. There was then a moment where we all got more...
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Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision

...history to smuggle in broader environmental messages, or at least that would be the point of the show or the film, but if you said to the Channel Controller, ‘This is an environmental film’ it probably wouldn’t get green lit. I mean things have changed. I’m talking about a period in maybe up to five, ten years ago. There was then a moment where we all got more...
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Nicole McLean (Mamet) – hospitality, gate line and train driver
Society, Politics & Law

Nicole McLean (Mamet) – hospitality, gate line and train driver

...history when at just 21 she became the youngest person to qualify as a train driver. She shares the story of her impressive achievement with Lois Nicolson...Find out about The Open University's History and Social Sciences courses. [Nicole McLean]I first joined the railway in 2013 at the age of 18. I had successfully attained a hospitality steward job through an agency...
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W.E.B. Du Bois – A Man for All Times
Society, Politics & Law

W.E.B. Du Bois – A Man for All Times

...History Month in order to persuade educators and researchers alike to look at his work across their curriculums and methodology discussions. Du Bois’s work offers great examples of how to represent reality (this is called mimesis); he used several different ways of doing this. He worked with statistics, and produced a major scientific study. He also found creative ways...
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