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Design and Creativity
Science, Maths & Technology

Design and Creativity

...course T211 Design and designing... Design and Creativity A short introduction to this album. New Designs: Charger Harnessing the power of technology: a designer talks about developing and testing a new charger that turns kinetic energy into electricity. New Designs: Postmobile Design for a specific market: a new designer explains how he secured sponsorship from the Royal...
Duchess of Malfi: Deconstructing the play
History & The Arts

Duchess of Malfi: Deconstructing the play

...course A230 Reading and studying literature... The Duchess of Malfi A brief introduction to the play. Understanding Webster’s text The cast discuss examine what the language means and why Webster chose to use those particular words. Interpreting Webster’s text for the stage An exploration of the different ways the text can be deciphered and translated for performance....
Exploring babies' and young children's development and learning
Education & Development

Exploring babies' and young children's development and learning

...course ED841 Understanding children's development and learning... Exploring babies' and young children's development and learning A short introduction to this album Entering social and cultural worlds Dr Dorothy Faulkner of The Open University sets the scene for the first set of interviews on the album Early relationships In this archive interview, Professor Rudolph...
About Earth In Vision
Nature & Environment

About Earth In Vision

...free to download, and will link to a website holding a sample of resources and archive content for free public use. Along with the programmes themselves we have been working in the BBC’s paper archives of files related to programmes and policies, and we have also filmed nearly thirty full length interviews with media producers, from icons such as Sir David Attenborough...
Electrochemical Machining (ECM)
Science, Maths & Technology

Electrochemical Machining (ECM)

...free components with an excellent surface finish in hard, difficult-to-machine, electrically conductive materials...Electrical reaction (iron or steel workpiece) Removes any electrically conductive material by the anodic dissolution of the workpiece (+ve) in a stream of electrolyte, which separates the workpiece from the shaped electrode (-ve) (tool). The tool has a...
What is Indigenous Psychology?
Education & Development

What is Indigenous Psychology?

...free from all external influences (Shams, 2002). The term ‘indigenous’ refers to the natural occurrence at a local place, hence, the prominent feature of indigenous psychology is the absence of external, foreign and non-local contexts in understanding human behaviour. [Quechua Indigenous Women in traditional clothes with their domestic animals, two llama and one...
Ethics Bites
History & The Arts

Ethics Bites

...Free Speech It’s not just what you say, it’s why you say it and why your audience is listening. Tim Scanlon explains the intricacies of free speech. Find out more about Tim, and ethics, at www.open2.net/ethicsbites. Climate Change Should the West shoulder the responsibility for tackling global warming? James Garvey talks about the ethics of climate change. Find out...
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The Psychology of Decision Making
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Psychology of Decision Making

...accident study sourced from EF Loftus and JC Palmer, ‘Reconstruction of automobile destruction: an example of the interaction between language and memory’, Journal of Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1974. About this article This article is based on extracts taken from the Open University Business School course Making a Difference (B830). Study a free psychology course...