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Getting started with Spanish 1
Languages

Getting started with Spanish 1

...research methods and pre-sessional English with IELTS, which will be available for registration in due course. The Open Centre for Languages and Cultures is an international leader in online language learning and intercultural communications, built on our pioneering pedagogy and research. What makes the Open Centre different? The OU is the leader in online learning and...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Dominic Weston - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dominic Weston - Earth in Vision

...researched things out of Life on Earth and present stuff from that. And then I got involved in birdwatching, a member of the YOC… so the Young Ornithologists Club and then also the XYZ Club, which was Exceptional Young Zoologists, which was an offshoot from the Zoological Society of London, because I lived in Greater London, so I’d get free tickets to go to Whipsnade...
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Video 30 mins
Why I believe 'yes' is only a matter of time
Society, Politics & Law

Why I believe 'yes' is only a matter of time

...Research Centre, you talk about the Scottish Independence Referendum held on the 18th of September 2014. You focus on how questions of class, nation and political geography came together to produce a no vote. You go on to argue, however, that the results point to a future in which a majority will vote yes to an independent Scotland. Gerry Mooney: Well, as is well known,...
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Diary of a Mars operations day
Science, Maths & Technology

Diary of a Mars operations day

...researchers. I love those, because it was more senior colleagues taking time for me when I was beginning my career that got me to where I am today... including to Mars! Right after a late lunch, though, my favourite part of the week starts, as I am on the operations team for today’s rover planning – rover, which rover? The Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity....
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Article 15 mins
The Legacy of Nuclear Power: Part 1
Nature & Environment

The Legacy of Nuclear Power: Part 1

...researched over many years, looking at four countries and four areas in particular and you allude to one of these which is the Hanford site in the United States. The Hanford site has fascinated me for more than twenty-five years now. I visited it several times. I've talked to the people there, particularly those involved with the site itself. It’s a very peripheral...
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Audio 10 mins
Business ethics
History & The Arts

Business ethics

...research. So you can imagine the different people on that committee going different ways on those two conditions. One may say “competent to teach ethics”, and the other might say “no, not at all”. So you can imagine when you take the votes they’ll be a majority but not unanimity in favour of this person actually being competent to teach ethics, a different...
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Introducing environmental decision making
Nature & Environment

Introducing environmental decision making

...research on how decisions are made...Introducing environmental decision making: 1.3 Decision making and policy making - Decision making is such an integral part of most people’s everyday lives that it is sometimes difficult to tell where decision making starts and ends. An activity closely allied to decision making, yet different, is policy making. Policies are plans,...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
An introduction to social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to social work

...research and theoretical ideas user and care knowledge and perspectives gained from experience. Activity 2 Exploring knowledge Timing: Allow 15 minutes to complete Ecological perspective Look at this example of theoretical knowledge: The ecological perspective… has become very influential in social work since its integration in the Framework for the Assessment of...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs