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UK must balance food farming impacts
Nature & Environment

UK must balance food farming impacts

...become increasingly dependent on food imports since the 1980s, with about 50% of its food and feed currently being imported. In effect, the UK is exporting the environmental impact and leaving producer nations with the challenge of reducing greenhouse gas emissions released in the service of the British supper table. The UK’s “land footprint” – another term for...
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Colour in Byzantine Art
History & The Arts

Colour in Byzantine Art

...becomes lighter as it moves outwards. As everything else in Byzantine art, this is highly intentional: it is there to remind the faithful that the Transfiguration is a feast of light, as described in the homilies of Church Fathers – and what other colour is better associated with light than white? Furthermore, white is directly connected with purity; Christ’s both...
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Childhood in the Digital Age
OpenLearn Ireland

Childhood in the Digital Age

...become more equipped to deal with the world around them. In this video Nathalia Gjersoe focuses on the future, and especially on the impact of changes to formal schooling and education in the next decade and beyond. Childhood in the Digital Age (Combined) Are you a technology optimist or a technology pessimist? The amount of technology available to children today is...
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Reading and note taking – preparation for study
Society, Politics & Law

Reading and note taking – preparation for study

...student some skills which are particularly associated with the way social scientists work. Both are of fundamental importance to your success in studying other courses. This course is about the very basic study skills of reading and taking notes. These are basic in the sense that they are the foundation for all successful study. But that does not mean they are simple. If...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Learning from sport burnout and overtraining

...OU student Elinor Barker speaking in 2018, recalling a period five years previously. [A head and shoulders shot of Open University student and 2016 Olympic gold medal cyclist, Elinor Barker.] Figure 2 Open University student and 2016 Olympic gold medal cyclist, Elinor Barker In the activity that follows, Barker describes her own personal experience of the early stages of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Personality: A user guide
Health, Sports & Psychology

Personality: A user guide

...become stronger as we get older; when we are young, our situation reflects external factors such as the social and family environment we were born into. As we grow older, we are more and more reaping the consequences of our own choices (living in places we ourselves have chosen, doing jobs that we were drawn to, surrounded by people like us whom we have sought out). Thus,...
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Listen Up! Developing an appreciation of music
History & The Arts

Listen Up! Developing an appreciation of music

...become aware of some of the processes that are going on in the music. This deepens our appreciation of the music. These processes – the basic elements of musical language; the building blocks, if you like – include: Tempo: - the speed of the music Pitch: - the way in which notes appear high or low in relation to one another Rhythm: - the length of certain notes, from...
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Behind the camera
History & The Arts

Behind the camera

...become a valuable way of using film to say ‘We are here!’ And again this process has become gradually more democratised with advances in technology. In the early days, the assistance of sympathetic professionals was needed, as when pioneering photographers went into the slums to photograph the miserable conditions of the nineteenth-century working classes. Their 1930s...
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