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Repatriation and returning remains
History & The Arts

Repatriation and returning remains

...Open University course A151 Making sense of things: an introduction to material culture... Encountering a body Nigel Warburton discusses two different cases regarding the issue of consent when displaying human remains. Torres Strait remains The Natural History Museum in London gave back 138 ancestral remains to the Torres Strait islands. Objections to Repatriation Tiffany...
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Video 25 mins
Online Rights and the Law
Science, Maths & Technology

Online Rights and the Law

...on the net. It also explores who owns the information we publish when we create an online account. This material forms part of the Open University course TU100 My digital life... Why do the media need your help? Online media and freedom of information Does the online Generation have anything to worry about? Are we still legally considered citizens, when we’re online?...
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Video 6 mins
Three Irish Poets – Ellen O'Leary
OpenLearn Ireland

Three Irish Poets – Ellen O'Leary

...resource for nationalist writers. ‘A Legend of Tyrone’ (1887) O’Leary’s ‘A Legend of Tyrone’ was first published in 1887 in the Catholic literary journal The Irish Monthly and then often anthologised, for example in W.B. Yeats’s influential 1888 collection Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry. The Story Below you'll find the poem ‘A Legend of...
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Article 5 mins
Five ways in which COVID-19 has impacted on progress in global health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five ways in which COVID-19 has impacted on progress in global health

...Open University are exploring ways of handling NCD’s either through linking industrial and social innovation to increase access to cancer care in East Africa (Professor Maureen Mackintosh) or by increasing screening for depression for people with diabetes and depression in Sub-Saharan Africa to improve treatment outcomes (Professor Cathy Lloyd and myself). The...
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Article 15 mins
Mosquito resistance to insecticides
Science, Maths & Technology

Mosquito resistance to insecticides

...overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity. Don't miss out If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses....
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
What are waves?
Science, Maths & Technology

What are waves?

...Open-source, interactive, educational demonstrations provided by Academo. [Online]. Available at: https://academo.org/ demos/ wave-interference-beat-frequency/ (Accessed 19 June 2019). Wave on a string (2017) PhET Interactive Simulations provided by University of Colorado, Boulder. [Online]. Available at: https://phet.colorado.edu/ en/ simulation/ wave-on-a-string...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Essential for what? A global social reproduction view on the re-organisation of work during the Covid-19 pandemic
Society, Politics & Law

Essential for what? A global social reproduction view on the re-organisation of work during the Covid-19 pandemic

...Open University's Economics courses and qualifications. On 22 June 2022, OU Economics hosted a seminar with Dr Sara Stevano of SOAS, University of London, and Dr Michal Nahman of The University of the West of England, and co-curator of the ‘This Is Essential Work’ online exhibition. The event was chaired by Susan Newman, Professor in Economics at The Open University...
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Video 5 mins
Talking about the menopause: symptoms, support and the role of exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Talking about the menopause: symptoms, support and the role of exercise

...resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Session 2: Symptoms and strategies: Introduction - The menopause is often identified by the symptoms that the sufferers experience rather than the physiological changes caused by falling levels of hormones produced. In this session we explore some of these symptoms and...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs