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Getting started on ancient Greek
History & The Arts

Getting started on ancient Greek

...out by: ‘zeta’ (ζ / Ζ) and ‘xi’ (ξ / Ξ), which, from the standpoint of English, look misplaced letters with no English counterpart, like ‘eta or ‘phi’. Memorising the jingles ‘zeta-eta-theta’ and ‘phi-chi-psi-omega’ can help overcome most of the difficulties. Think about the best way for you to learn the order of the alphabet. You might choose to...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Lisa Sargood - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Lisa Sargood - Earth in Vision

...out of the audience were, ‘Well what’s the point in us doing this, because in China they’re still building coal-fired power stations?’ And that sense of hopelessness, that, ‘There’s nothing I can do,’ and I think that’s what’s the issue with environmental programming is it re-evokes all of those emotions. A sense of, ‘I can’t watch this, because...
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Video 30 mins
Exercise and mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exercise and mental health

...out in 2009, by Mead, identified that the most rigorous trials actually don't support the very strong benefit of exercise compared with nothing. Exercise does help, compared with cognitive behavioural therapy; the benefits are similar. So overall, it becomes really difficult to say, does exercise work or not? The jury may still be out. If you conduct studies, for example,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
The economics of flood insurance
Society, Politics & Law

The economics of flood insurance

...out of urban or residential areas have become problematic as the changing population and landscape make this goal less attainable and the need to reconnect with pre-urban water management and flooding has been recognised by policy makers. This section looks at the problem of flooding to understand what it is, how flood risk management has been approached historically and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Hybrid working: wellbeing and inclusion
Money & Business

Hybrid working: wellbeing and inclusion

...burning out. In the following video Grace Emiohe from The Open University shares her experiences of maintaining her own wellbeing. GRACE EMIOHE I am Grace Emiohe. I work at the Open University as a senior performance consultant. I’ve been in that role now for almost seven years. So I am a single person. I live alone. So when pandemic happened, it really get close to...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Understanding PCSO powers
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding PCSO powers

...out their duties. You will look at how the role of a PCSO complements response policing in the UK and consider how PCSO powers and procedures can be exercised fairly and without bias. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of study from the module BXY138 Professional PCSO practice (work-based learning), part of the PCSO apprenticeship programme which is delivered jointly...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Passports: identity and airports
Society, Politics & Law

Passports: identity and airports

...out these everyday objects? This free course, Passports: identity and airports, explores how the passport became a commonplace item and how material objects, such as the passport, have come to mediate modern air travel. Passports may seem like unremarkable everyday objects, but they’ve played a crucial, and often surprising, historical role in shaping the relationship...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Philosophy: the nature of persons
History & The Arts

Philosophy: the nature of persons

...out how many persons are in a crowd by counting the number of human bodies. If we accept this, we would sort out the nature of persons by sorting out the nature of human beings, and the latter task certainly is best conducted by a biologist. However, in ordinary language we sometimes do distinguish between ‘person’ and ‘human being’. Consider, for example, someone...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs