1,945 search results
Managing my investments
Money & Business

Managing my investments

...community about savings products are sold, they are not bought. And that I would say sadly is the case. These products tend to be aggressively promoted. From time to time they may be in the field, if one thinks of the obvious examples, over the last fifteen year, technology you know, maybe mining. So they may be aggressively sold and promoted to the investor when really...
View course Managing my investments
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Understanding science: what we cannot know Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding science: what we cannot know

...community. The courses also provide another way of helping you to progress from informal to formal learning. Completing a course will require about 24 hours of study time. However, you can study the course at any time and at a pace to suit you. Badged courses are available on The Open University’s OpenLearn website and do not cost anything to study. They differ from...
View course Understanding science: what we cannot know
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004
History & The Arts

The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004

...communal hangover. What was going on? Chrissie Giles tries to piece together what happened...I first met alcohol in the late 1980s. It was the morning after one of my parents’ parties. My sister and I, aged nine or ten, were up alone. We trawled the lounge for abandoned cans. I remember being methodical: pick one up, give it a shake to see if there’s anything inside...
View article The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004
Article 10 mins
Richard Brock - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Richard Brock - Earth in Vision

...communities and decision makers - those who can make the difference. These programmes are not made for general television or western audiences, many of them are shown to people who have never even seen a TV. Transcript Richard Brock Earth in Vision Project My name’s Richard Brock, I’m an independent filmmaker, was with the Natural History Unit for 35 years, worked on...
View video Richard Brock - Earth in Vision
Video 30 mins
Microbes – friend or foe?
Nature & Environment

Microbes – friend or foe?

...community of microbes. The contents of the tank are mixed mechanically with air or air is bubbled through the tank. The microbes then use the organic material in the sewage as their source of carbohydrate for respiration. The oxygen in the air allows the microbes to respire aerobically.What are the products of the aerobic respiration of carbohydrates like glucose? Aerobic...
View course Microbes – friend or foe?
Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Children and young people: food and food marketing
Education & Development

Children and young people: food and food marketing

...communicating with children about food effectively in the earliest years of life. Children’s ‘advertised diet’ is largely unhealthy – about three-quarters of ads that even very young children see on television are for items such as fast food, sweets, chocolate and other foods high in saturated fats, sugar, artificial sweeteners, and salt, that the World Health...
View course Children and young people: food and food marketing
Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
The business of film
History & The Arts

The business of film

...communication of ideas, rather than functional value. Activities that produce films are part of the cultural industries. Those such as fashion design, advertising and architecture, where there is symbolic content, but where functionality comes first, are not considered to be part of the cultural industries, but are part of the wider creative industries. So what is...
View course The business of film
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Art and visual culture: medieval to modern
History & The Arts

Art and visual culture: medieval to modern

...communicative power. For example, the wealthy lavished money on rich artefacts or dynastic portraits in part because they were an aspect of the social exclusiveness that a representative number of their entourage could notice and grasp. In reiterating the convention that religious art was particularly useful for those unable to read, medieval thinkers seem to have assumed...
View course Art and visual culture: medieval to modern
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs