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Intermediate German: Understanding spoken German
Languages

Intermediate German: Understanding spoken German

...out there. Don't focus on trying to understand everything you hear. Instead try to enjoy the sound and flow and get comfortable with it. If you enjoy this OpenLearn course, you might be interested in the Open University course L113 German Studies 1: language and culture of the German-speaking world...Intermediate German: Understanding spoken German: Learning outcomes -...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Mastering systems thinking in practice Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Mastering systems thinking in practice

...out or perform habitually or constantly-- to carry out an action. Almost everyone has some role or number of roles in which they regularly encounter issues that need dealing with, improving, or resolving. For example, I'm a practicing father as well as a practicing academic. So a practitioner is anyone involved in practice-- in regularly carrying out a number of actions....
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
The family at the centre of early learning
Education & Development

The family at the centre of early learning

...out with her grandparents. Example 1: Cerys’ trip to London Cerys’s grandparents took her to London to visit ‘Big Ben’ as she had often talked about ‘Little Ben’ near where her grandmother works and a ‘Baby Ben’ near where she lives. Cerys helped to buy tickets and deal with the money, and the family talked about their journey to London on the train. When...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
IT: Information
Science, Maths & Technology

IT: Information

...out some of the themes, issues and concepts that help to provide a framework for discussing newsgathering and dissemination of news. Activity 1 Think for a moment about the following aspects of news dissemination during the time of Henry IV and V (15th century), or any time before the Industrial Revolution. What determined how fast the news could get from one place to...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Postcards from the doctor: Spreading health care messages in India
Health, Sports & Psychology

Postcards from the doctor: Spreading health care messages in India

...out of the reach of the poor. So one Indian doctor found an ultra low-tech approach to delivering health care: writing postcards. [Doctor Aaraveeti Ramayogaiah] Doctor Aaraveeti Ramayogaiah Over the course of his career, Dr. Aaraveeti Ramayogaiah wrote about 27,000 postcards to patients and acquaintances. Most of them explained preventive health care practices, like...
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Article 5 mins
Living with MS: Not just surviving but thriving (with a little canine care)
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living with MS: Not just surviving but thriving (with a little canine care)

...out and about living life to the full. Ann* was in her wheelchair and by her side was Molly her Labrador, a specially trained disability assistance dog. Molly picked up the things Ann dropped, opened doors, barked on command to alert people if Ann fell, fetched the phone, emptied the washing machine and generally provided Ann with practical, emotional and psychological...
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Article 5 mins
Being heard
Education & Development

Being heard

...out more about The Open University's Open courses I am a Staff Tutor, which means I look after those people who teach at the OU. For me, YXM130 provides opportunities for exploration and looking at a problem, or theme, from all kinds of perspectives. If I was to study YXM130, I would explore how people can make themselves heard, how we listen to one another and how we can...
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Article 5 mins
Palaeobiology: Solving the Riddle of the Gastroliths
Nature & Environment

Palaeobiology: Solving the Riddle of the Gastroliths

...out stones, even travelled inland up rivers to find them. Animals that swim by ‘flying’ under water with wing-like limbs such as extinct plesiosaurs, and penguins and sea lions today, commonly swallow stones. In contrast, animals that swim by undulating the body or tail from side to side such as the ichthyosaurs in the prehistoric food web, or up and down as in seals...
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Article 5 mins