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Intermediate Spanish: Understanding spoken Spanish
Languages

Intermediate Spanish: Understanding spoken Spanish

...students currently studying with The Open University – http://www.open.ac.uk/ choose/ ou/ open-content 2. Enjoyed this? Find out more about this topic or browse all our free course materials on OpenLearn – http://www.open.edu/ openlearn/ 3. Outside the UK? We have students in over a hundred countries studying online qualifications – http://www.openuniversity.edu/...
Waste management and environmentalism in China
Nature & Environment

Waste management and environmentalism in China

...become more affluent they have consumed more goods and in turn the volume of waste produced has increased. This free course, Waste management and environmentalism in China, explores how the Chinese can deal with increasing volumes of waste, drawing parallels with the UK experience of waste management. You will also consider the conceptual tools that can be used to make...
Legal skills and debates in Scotland Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Legal skills and debates in Scotland

...students when asked this question. [Described image] Figure 4Responses of some of our students to the law Your future studies on this course will either reinforce or challenge your initial ideas and impressions. Making a record of your initial impressions enables you to recognise your pre-existing knowledge and your personal values which relate to law. An understanding of...
Vanessa Berlowitz - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Vanessa Berlowitz - Earth in Vision

...become an Executive Producer for the BBC, developing and winning a number of commissions, some of which are still in production. These include Great Bear Stakeout - grizzlies filmed 24/7 with multiple remotes, Life in the Air - an innovation led wildlife series on animal flight, Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur – a one off special that investigated whether a recent...
Succeed with maths: part 2 Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 2

...becomes more important to think carefully about the answer that you will be expecting. Should it be bigger or smaller than the number you started with? Let’s have a look at an example before you have a go yourself. If you have a photograph that measures eight inches by ten inches, as shown in Figure 2, what is the total distance around the photo in feet and inches? [A...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Methods in Motion: Remaking self-help
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Remaking self-help

...OU Enduring Love? Project. Queer: A Graphic History (with artist Julia Scheele) is a comic about what queer theory is and how it might be useful in people’s lives. Moving anticlockwise to the top left, I’ve also conducted my own research into self-help, which informs my wider project. For example, Ros Gill, Laura Harvey and I are writing an academic book based on our...
NI Electoral Dynamics, and what Good Friday Agreement did to change it
Society, Politics & Law

NI Electoral Dynamics, and what Good Friday Agreement did to change it

...OU collection exploring what Good Friday Agreement means 25 yars on This arcicle is part of "A Peace of Us", our special collection of resources exploring what the Good Friday Agreement brought to our lives in the 25 years since its signing. I often hear the refrain “nothing ever changes in this place” and “politics always stays the same” but as CS Lewis once...
Proud of nursing associates: who they are and why they are important
Health, Sports & Psychology

Proud of nursing associates: who they are and why they are important

...OU foundation degree curriculum to support trainee nursing associates to develop professional identity. ‘A framework to effectively promote professional identity in nursing associates: a realist ethnographic study’. Open University, UK. Thurgate, C., & Griggs, C. (2023) Nursing associates 6 years on: a review of the literature. Journal of Clinical Nursing. 32,...