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About OpenLearn Wales
OpenLearn Cymru Wales

About OpenLearn Wales

...work or study in Wales or are simply curious about the country – you’ve found the right place to learn something new, for free. On OpenLearn Wales you’ll find a selection of free resources relevant to Wales and Welsh life. These include online courses, videos, interactive experiences, and articles. If you want to learn through the medium of Welsh, you can also...
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Article 10 mins
My career goal: Construction
Science, Maths & Technology

My career goal: Construction

...work, and want to know how they're made? Construction could be for you. Here's some advice on using your practical mind and hands-on skills to build bigger and better things...Civil engineering case study This short video shows Daniel, who is following the graduate route to become a civil engineer. Transcript How to apply for a CSCS card The Construction Skills...
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Article 20 mins
Living psychology: animal minds
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living psychology: animal minds

...work with animals every day. And you have happy animals, you have sad animals. It’s quite obvious that they do feel emotions. It’s just difficult sometimes to interpret the language that they’re showing you as those emotions. We look at emotions in terms of welfare. And we’re certainly looking in terms of whether animals are sad and in pain. And we have recognised...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Grinding
Science, Maths & Technology

Grinding

...work speeds, high power and special safety provisions. Depths of cut are small (cf. creep feed grinding, about 25 mm): roughing, 0.1–0.4 mm; finishing 0.01–0.025 mm; LSG, 0.005–0.0125 mm. Work (table) speeds depend on size, type and rigidity of work: LSG, 10–15 m s-1; surface 15–30 m s-1; cylindrical, 20-30 m s-1; internal, 20–60 m s-1. Cross-feeds depend on...
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Article 10 mins
The Roman Empire: introducing some key terms
History & The Arts

The Roman Empire: introducing some key terms

...work on this course, please watch the video sequence ‘Introducing the Roman World’ below. This visual introduction will introduce many of the terms to be defined in this course and set them in context. It will also show the kinds of sources you might work on for evidence of culture, identity and power in the Roman Empire if you continue to study this topic. You may...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
Leaving the EU means losing access to EU agencies - so why aren't we talking about it?
Society, Politics & Law

Leaving the EU means losing access to EU agencies - so why aren't we talking about it?

...work directly benefits British people’s health, security and economic well-being. Are they experts Britain can do without? Leave campaigners implied that quitting the European Union would be as easy as giving up a gym membership. Instead, the process looks fiendishly complicated – and that’s before the impact of abandoning EU agencies has been discussed. Presumably...
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Article 5 mins
Apollo 11 and 50 years of research on Moon rocks
Science, Maths & Technology

Apollo 11 and 50 years of research on Moon rocks

...work which has taken place with the Moon rocks taken from that mission...President Kennedy’s famous “We choose to go to the Moon” speech to a crowd of 40,000 people on 12th September 1962 resonated widely with the American population and dampened some of the disquiet about the cost and value of the Moon-landing effort. It also started the space race with the Soviet...
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Article 5 mins
The experts who put storytelling, language and better paid teachers at the heart of early education
Education & Development

The experts who put storytelling, language and better paid teachers at the heart of early education

...work of Jerome Bruner, Catherine Snow and Kathy Sylva...There are a lot of things to remember at the start of a new school term. Uniforms, sports kit, stationery equipment, activity clubs … Often forgotten are the names of the people behind the learning which actually goes on once pupils arrive in the classroom. Not the teachers who do the teaching – but the academics...
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Article 10 mins