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How to learn a language Badge icon
Languages

How to learn a language

...education. Tita speaks Spanish, English, French and Italian. She is also currently learning German, and she has also already decided what three languages she’s going to learn next! You can find out more about her teaching and research on Tita’s OU Profile. [An image of Olly Richards] Olly Richards Olly Richards is a polyglot who speaks eight languages (English,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Basic science: understanding experiments
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding experiments

...Education, the educational arm of The Exilarch's Foundation....Week 2: Unique properties of water: Introduction - JANET Welcome to Week 2. Your experiments so far have shown us two important things-- water can make up a large amount of the content of an everyday food, and water can pass through semipermeable barriers such as cell walls. That means that the water content...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
An introduction to exoplanets Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to exoplanets

...technology continues to improve, we are seeing more and more objects on the distant fringe of our Solar System that need to be defined and classified. Much like other sciences, such as biology, where one may discover a new species, classification is a common and needed process which groups like objects for purposes of comparison and further study. And as in all sciences,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Particle physics
Science, Maths & Technology

Particle physics

...Education, the educational arm of The Exilarch's Foundation. This OpenLearn science course was updated with the kind support of Dangoor Education340, the educational arm of The Exilarch's Foundation...This free course, Particle physics, will give you an overview of current concepts and theories in the field. You will learn about the fundamental components of matter –...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change

...technologies which you have written against and campaigned against. Do you feel like you’ve won that battle internally in the UK political scene? BP: Well, we’ve certainly won the public debate, I think the public has become much more sceptical about the policies, certainly about the policies, more so than perhaps on the science, but even the science they’re taking...
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Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction
History & The Arts

Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction

...technology and even logic. A new flaneur-like detective emerged in his creation of Auguste Dupin, a pre-Holmesian observer of urban life and crime, most famously outwitting the great and the good in ‘The Purloined Letter’ (1844) with techniques of ‘ratiocination’ (a pre-cursor technique to Sherlock Holmes’s deductive reasoning and Hercule Poirot’s ‘little...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
What is politics?
Society, Politics & Law

What is politics?

...education sector, and the NHS as well. It’s important in everybody’s life. Woman I don’t know. Woman I don’t know. [Inaudible] Woman Yes, I think it is. Woman Yes [Inaudible]. Interviewer Tell us why. Woman Because the government decides about what money goes to certain places. I don’t know, really. Man Well, of course politics is important, but there’s got to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Paul Williams - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Paul Williams - Earth in Vision

...Technology many years ago and the head of that department was Ashley Highfield and he always said, ‘We have to lose control of our content, because by losing control of our content people will take ownership of it and they’ll do wonderful things.’ And over the years we have had various projects where we have released small chunks of BBC archive and we’ve...
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Video 30 mins