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Primary science: supporting children’s learning
Education & Development

Primary science: supporting children’s learning

...skills. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course E209 Developing subject knowledge for the primary years, relevant to anyone interested in the education of 3 to 11 year old children...Primary science: supporting children’s learning: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: evaluate and advance science...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Metals in medicine
Science, Maths & Technology

Metals in medicine

...studying this course you will be able to answer the following questions: How can the measurement of signals from living tissue be converted into images useful for diagnostic medicine? What is an MRI contrast agent and how can the properties of metal complexes be applied to this role? What aspects of the coordination chemistry of cisplatin underpin its effectiveness as an...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Assessment in secondary music
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary music

...studying this course, you should be able to: recognise the purposes and forms of assessment and their application in, and implications for, music education understand what to assess in music education promote assessment for learning in music education understand how to use assessment to plan for further learning...Assessment in secondary music: 1 Key issue 1: What is...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Training for speed and power in sport and fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Training for speed and power in sport and fitness

...studying this course, you should be able to: explain what is meant by the concepts of speed and power understand the physiological principles that underpin speed and power apply a range of training techniques for speed and power in practice...Training for speed and power in sport and fitness: 1 What are speed and power? - Before you can look at how to train for speed and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...skill which will help you in any further study...Week 4: Lottery of birth in the twenty-first century: 6 Summary of Week 4 - [Described image] Figure 7 Over the final week of Lottery of birth you’ve heard about some key demographic facts from the United Nations. You also heard from some of the leading thinkers on the issue of inequality. Public discussion of the big...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor

...studied Animals at the extremes: The desert environment (S324_1). After completing this course you might like to complete the series by studying Animals at the extremes: Polar biology (S324_3). This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 3 study in Science...Animals at the extremes: Hibernation and torpor: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Intermediate Spanish: Understanding spoken Spanish
Languages

Intermediate Spanish: Understanding spoken Spanish

...studies to a higher level...Welcome to this free course, Intermediate Spanish: Understanding spoken Spanish, which is aimed at intermediate learners of Spanish with an interest in language and culture. The six-hour course is designed to develop your understanding of spoken Spanish through six video portraits of people living in Spain. It introduces you to naturally spoken...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
The obscure history of the ‘virgin’s disease’ that could be cured with sex
History & The Arts

The obscure history of the ‘virgin’s disease’ that could be cured with sex

...intercourse did the job. Or, to look at it another way, if this set of common symptoms appeared in a girl of marriageable age, the only diagnosis possible was “the disease of virgins”. [The Conversation] Transcript Helen King, Professor of Classical Studies, The Open University This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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