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Basic science: understanding numbers
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding numbers

...Education, the educational arm of The Exilarch's Foundation....Week 1: Why does science need numbers?: Introduction - Janet Sumner is your guide through this course. She is a Media Fellow at The Open University with a specialist interest in volcanoes. Janet will appear at the start of each week to tip you off about the highlights and challenges, to remind you what...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Cànan nan Gàidheal (Gaelic language)
Languages

Cànan nan Gàidheal (Gaelic language)

...Educational provision is fragmented, achievement poorly measured, continuity not very evident. In the language of our time, there is a lack of joined-up thinking. Bogsa 4 Foreign languages in the upper secondary school: the causes of decline Joanna McPake, Lindsay Lyall (SCRE); Richard Johnstone, Lesley Low (University of Stirling) Introduction In November 1996,...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
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
Freeing people caught between life and death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freeing people caught between life and death

...technologies. Doctors have steadily got better at saving patients with catastrophic injuries, though it remains much easier to restart a heart than restore a brain. Today, trapped, damaged and diminished minds inhabit clinics and nursing homes worldwide – in Europe alone the number of new coma cases is estimated to be around 230,000 annually, of which some 30,000 will...
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Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution
History & The Arts

Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution

...technology around the same time also made these easier and cheaper to produce. Developments in electronic instruments and mass production, meanwhile, made electric guitars and amplifiers attainable for teenagers, and electric guitar bands quickly became fashionable. Rock ‘n’ roll (or rock as it is often shortened to) was embraced with enthusiasm by American youth, and...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Getting started with German 1
Languages

Getting started with German 1

...technology, German has a long-standing reputation as the language of poets and thinkers, die Sprache der Dichter und Denker. The German speaking countries are also a popular tourist destination, offering visitors a great variety of landscapes - from the sandy beaches in the North to the majestic alps in the South, not to forget hills, lakes, rivers, vineyards and the...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 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