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Dance skills
Education & Development

Dance skills

...Introduction - Dance communicates ideas through movement and is an expressive art form. Students need to learn how to use their body in a safe and healthy way, whilst developing a wide-ranging movement vocabulary. This unit introduces some key skills and suggestions for how to develop these skills with students. The use of different dance techniques can be an effective...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Scottish courts and the law Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Scottish courts and the law

...manage your digital badges online from My OpenLearn. In addition, you can download and print your OpenLearn statement of participation - which also displays your Open University badge. ...Week 7: Reporting cases: Introduction - In this week you explore how decisions made in the court room are recorded so that they can be relied upon in future, similar cases. This week is...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The science of sperm
Health, Sports & Psychology

The science of sperm

...manage sex up to three or four times a day. A lion can manage it seventy five times a day during the mating season. • When a man ejaculates he generally produces between 2 and 5 millilitres of sperm (about the same volume as a large teaspoon would hold). A pig routinely manages one litre which is 200 times as much. • Our sperm cells are microscopic - we cannot see them...
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Article 15 mins
Exploring Religion in London
History & The Arts

Exploring Religion in London

...manager, Maurice Bitton. Transcript Exploring Religion in London Bevis Marks Synagogue Narrator: Welcome to the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, in Bevis Marks here in the centre of London. The oldest surviving synagogue in this country, that is still in daily use. Our synagogue was built in 1701. It was built during the rebuilding of the city of London, after the great...
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Video 30 mins
Transport and Sustainability
Science, Maths & Technology

Transport and Sustainability

...Introduction - Transport has considerable environmental impacts. It creates problems of urban air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. There is also the problem of determining who is the most important urban road user; the private car, public road transport, or cyclists and pedestrians. The ultimate energy service provided by transport energy is mobility. However,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Seeing institutions in different ways
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing institutions in different ways

...projects, NGOs and the state. With respect to natural resource management in particular, it is commonly argued that existing farming practices are inadequate, even destructive, and should be changed. There are, however, reasons for scepticism as to how workable rural communities are. Vested interests connected to the existing social and material organisation of the...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
An education in Religion and Worldviews
History & The Arts

An education in Religion and Worldviews

...Introduction - Religious Education is a statutory requirement for all school children in England. This course explores how the teaching and scholarly community is working to ensure this curriculum remains relevant for the twenty-first century. It is aimed at parents, faith and community group members and all others who might be interested in the purpose and content of...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Tory Trades Unionism: 19th Century Style
History & The Arts

Tory Trades Unionism: 19th Century Style

...managed to cost the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir William Vernon Harcourt, his seat in Parliament. The Northern Echo of July 16th, 1895, reports: [Geoffrey Drage, MP] Geoffrey Drage in the year he entered parliament The loss of Sir William Harcourt at Derby will not be an unmixed joy to the Conservatives all round. The result has a special interest in Bishop...
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Article 5 mins