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Forensic psychology Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Forensic psychology

...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/...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury

...OU student and Olympic Gold Medallist Helen Richardson-Walsh explains more...Have you ever experienced a sport injury? Have you ever thought there could be a psychological dimension to sport injuries, as well as a physical one? Sport injury is relatively common among sport and exercise participants, and while the physical impact of injury is often easy to recognise, the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Introducing the voluntary sector Badge icon
Money & Business

Introducing the voluntary sector

...become literal battlegrounds over the issue of student power; or public schools, city halls, and police departments (or big business which is likely to be next on the expanding list of targets). The underlying issues are essentially the same – “nobodies” in several arenas are trying to become “somebodies” with enough power to make the target institutions...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Keep me walking: People living with dementia and outdoor environments
Health, Sports & Psychology

Keep me walking: People living with dementia and outdoor environments

...OU are working together to evaluate a new initiative of Walking Programme set currently as 5 Ways cafes in the local Manor Parks (Great Linford, MK) for people living with dementia in Milton Keynes and their informal carers and families, which will be an exemplar of interest to a wide range of UK care homes and volunteer organisations. We aim to measure the engagement and...
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Article 10 mins
How to read a rock
Science, Maths & Technology

How to read a rock

...biography of entire mountain ranges. Reading an igneous rock may reveal the secrets of the bowels of a volcano. When you look at enough minerals in enough rocks, you read the letters and the words, the sentences, paragraphs and chapters recorded within them; you can piece together a story and tell the biography of our entire planet. Love science? Go further with the OU...
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Article 10 mins
Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision

...become, as a young science journalist, although he was a geneticist and a very well-known geneticist, he was interested in education and so he was really keen to get that story out and his family was there during the sit-in and everything that happened. So when we did a documentary called Windy Bay looking particularly at Clayoquot Sound and the fact that you can’t...
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Video 30 mins
Getting started with Chinese 2
Languages

Getting started with Chinese 2

...OU is the leader in online learning and teaching with a heritage of more than 50 years helping students achieve their learning ambitions. The short courses are underpinned by academic rigour and designed by native speakers experienced in producing engaging materials for online learning of languages and cultures. The graduating nature of the courses means that learners can...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
The formation of exoplanets
Science, Maths & Technology

The formation of exoplanets

...become a more general model of planet formation for its ability to account for a large diversity of planetary outcomes, from Earth-sized planetary cores that form first, to ice and gas giants that evolve later. Lastly, Section 3 focuses on the final stages of planet formation, and explores the core-accretion scenario further, as well as an alternative disc-instability...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs