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Welsh history and its sources
History & The Arts

Welsh history and its sources

...research. The Cyfarthfa Band was formed in Merthyr Tydfil in the early years of Queen Victoria's reign. Merthyr was the largest town in Wales and one of the world's most important centres of iron production. The biggest iron works in the town was the great Cyfarthfa Works, owned by the Crawshay family. [IRONWORKS SOUNDS] By the 1820s, when these watercolours were painted,...
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Level 1: Introductory 25 hrs
Building confidence in using online forums
Education & Development

Building confidence in using online forums

...research (Griffin and Roy, 2019). Figure 1 shows what two student respondents for that study said about using an online learning forum. [Described in long description.] (Source: student responses to survey used in Griffin and Roy, 2019) Figure 1 Student responses to using an online learning forum Student 1 identifies an important concern that many people have when writing...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
The science of nutrition and healthy eating Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

The science of nutrition and healthy eating

...research scientists in Cambridge to complete the task. The group was headed by Frederick Sanger, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for his work in 1958. Insulin turned out to be composed of two linked chains of amino acids, as shown in Figure 4. Each amino acid is identified by a three-letter abbreviation of its name. Since then, protein sequencing has been automated. As a...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Teaching assistants: support in action (Chinese)
Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action (Chinese)

...Research Challenges Practice and Policy, London, Routledge. Colloby, J. (2013) ‘Support in a mathematics lesson’, in Hancock, R., Collins, J. and Stacey, M. (eds), Primary Teaching Assistants: Learners and Learning, Abingdon, Routledge/Milton Keynes, The Open University. Cremin, H., Thomas, G. and Vincett, K. (2003) ‘Learning zones: an evaluation of three models for...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Political ordering
Society, Politics & Law

Political ordering

...research, producing courses and marking exam papers. The Open University also presents itself to its employees, its students and the wider society through its official brand, which appears on internal and external communications, and through its advertising in various media. But The Open University also gives the impression that it is more than the sum of all these parts....
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Getting started with German 3
Languages

Getting started with German 3

...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
Fire ecology
Science, Maths & Technology

Fire ecology

...researchers to propose that a diversity of fire regimes across a landscape (named pyrodiversity) is necessary to maintain biodiversity...Fire ecology: 4.3 The pyrodiversity-biodiversity hypothesis - Without fire, ecosystems that operate to a predictable seasonal or cyclical pattern can, over time, become uniform in how they look and function. Disturbances such as fire...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Equity – law and idea
Society, Politics & Law

Equity – law and idea

...Research how Aristotle defines and discusses equity, either online or in a local library. If you can find them, look for one of the following sections of his work: Section V ‘Litigation’ in Rhetoric (also known as The Art of Rhetoric) Book V in Nicomachean Ethics. Don't worry if you aren't able to track these down – you can move straight on to the discussion below....
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs