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Getting started with Chinese 2
Languages

Getting started with Chinese 2

...research. What makes the Open Centre different? The OU is the leader in online learning and teaching with a heritage of more than 50 years helping students achieve their learning ambitions. The short courses are underpinned by academic rigour and designed by native speakers experienced in producing engaging materials for online learning of languages and cultures. The...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Introducing social care and social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social care and social work

...children and young people: Care Stories, 2006 TAVISTOCK TRAINING PUBLICATIONS, TAVISTOCK CENTRE. Activity 2 video: Systemic Concepts – the Social GRACES: The Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust. Text Section 5 extract (Sissay, 2019): First published in Great Britain, the USA and Canada in 2019 by Canongate Books Ltd. Coypright © Lemn Sissay, 2019. Every effort has been...
Tolstoy and the search for the meaning of life
History & The Arts

Tolstoy and the search for the meaning of life

...children, I said to myself: ‘Why?’ Or, reflecting on the manner in which the masses might obtain their welfare, I suddenly said to myself: ‘What is that to me?’ Or, thinking of the fame which my works would get me, I said to myself: ‘All right, you will be more famous than Gógol, Pushkin, Shakespeare, Moliere, and all the writers in the world, – what of...
10 incredible people whose stories you'll find on OpenLearn
History & The Arts

10 incredible people whose stories you'll find on OpenLearn

...research. Clare Warren states why she thinks Dorothy Hodgkin is one of the most influential women in science: "Not only was Dorothy Hodgkin incredibly clever but she also managed to multi task to a way that most women would never be able to, let alone any men being able to. When she first went to university she was looking after her two younger sisters at the same time so...
Getting started with German 3
Languages

Getting started with German 3

...research. What makes the Open Centre different? The OU is the leader in online learning and teaching with a heritage of more than 50 years helping students achieve their learning ambitions. The short courses are underpinned by academic rigour and designed by native speakers experienced in producing engaging materials for online learning of languages and cultures. The...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Extending and developing your thinking skills
Education & Development

Extending and developing your thinking skills

...children ready and off to school in time? No I wouldn't so I got up! I chose some clean clothes and got dressed after having a wash. The letters were on the mat when I went downstairs and I sorted them and made a pile for each member of the family. I wondered whether to bother opening the letter claiming I was the lucky winner of a grand prize. After everyone had...
Innovation in health and social care practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Innovation in health and social care practice

...Research, 16(1), p. 591. Lorenz, K., Freddolino, P.P., Comas-Herrera, A., Knapp, M. and Damant, J. (2019) ‘Technology-based tools and services for people with dementia and carers: mapping technology onto the dementia care pathway’, Dementia, 18(2), pp. 725–41. Taylor, K. (2015) Connected health: how digital technology is transforming health and social care. Deloitte...
Beginners’ Italian: food and drink
Languages

Beginners’ Italian: food and drink

...Centre for Languages and Cultures. Some activities in this course use an audio-recording tool. This may not work correctly in the Safari browser on Apple Mac computers. Please try another browser such as Google Chrome to run this...Beginners’ Italian: food and drink: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: take part in simple exchanges...