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Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change

...Project Tamsin Edwards interview Key RH: = Roger Harrabin, interviewer TE: = Tamsin Edwards, Open University RH: Tell us about yourself and your blog. TE: My name’s Tamsin Edwards. I’m a lecturer at the Open University in Environmental Sciences, and I have a blog run by the website PLOS called All Models are Wrong, and that’s named after a fairly famous quote within...
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Studying mammals: Plant predators
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Plant predators

...manage to flourish on a salad diet? In this free course, Studying mammals: Plant predators, we will examine the special features that allow them to extract their nutrients from leaves, and see how some plants protect themselves from these predators. This is the fourth course in the Studying mammals series...From the mouse-deer to the elephant, plant eaters come in all...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Recording music and sound
History & The Arts

Recording music and sound

...projects in 1990, and still holds in some cases today, the producers, who are responsible for bringing a recording such as this to the marketplace, take on two specific tasks. First comes the creative activity of selecting the music, choosing arrangements, getting the desired sound, planning the cover and insert notes, etc. Then there are several administrative tasks to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
A short introduction to the English language
Languages

A short introduction to the English language

...manage to communicate effectively in the pre emoji era? [BUZZING] Language first evolved around 100,000 years ago, allowing our ancestors to communicate simple ideas like ‘fire’ or ‘cave’ or more complex ideas like ‘your cave is on fire’. [SCREAMING] And then 5,500 years ago, writing was invented in Mesopotamia when people started engraving symbols on clay...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Gaelic in modern Scotland
Languages

Gaelic in modern Scotland

...Project and, most recently, Gaelic medium education (GME) are examples of this, which will be described in the next section. In the period following the Second World War, and especially from the 1960s on, the Highlands and Islands became more open to outside cultural influences, mainly through television and the access it gave to the burgeoning popular culture of that...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
How did Trump win the White House?
Society, Politics & Law

How did Trump win the White House?

...managed to connect with blue-collar voters in the Great Lakes region. But Trump’s anti-immigration and protectionist trade policies gave him a unique opening with white working-class voters, and he made the most of it. 4. Outsiders against insiders Trump will be the first president without elective office experience since Dwight Eisenhower in the 1950s. Eisenhower,...
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The effects of self-isolation and lack of physical activity on carers
Health, Sports & Psychology

The effects of self-isolation and lack of physical activity on carers

...manage increasingly challenging behaviours of persons with complex physical and/or mental health needs, particularly during the outbreak, as they cannot engage with their usual outdoors coping mechanisms. As highlighted in our BBC1 broadcast on 4 May 2020, the increased demand for coping leaves even less time for carers to engage with physical activity. Carers, due to...
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Glenariff to Fermanagh
OpenLearn Ireland

Glenariff to Fermanagh

...managed to find their way to places they would not normally be...Video Transcript PAT JESS: Beautiful, absolutely wonderful. DARRYL GRIMASON: Fantastic. PAT JESS: And you really see the flat floor, even though that’s covered with the debris, but the flat floor that the glacier scooped out and running up the steep sides up to the hills. Standing here, you can just...
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