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Animals at the extremes: polar biology
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: polar biology

...manage to survive there. It looks at the adaptations to physiological proceses, the environmental effects on diet, activity and fecundity, and contrasts the strategies of aquatic and land-based animals in surviving in this extreme habitat...The extreme challenges of life in the polar regions require the animals who make their habitat there to make many adaptations. This...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Exploring Ovid’s big ideas
History & The Arts

Exploring Ovid’s big ideas

...managed to come up with a definition. Or, if you were like me and struggled to answer this question, that you found the struggle useful! The question ‘what makes a human human?’ in some ways feels like a thoroughly modern question. You may have encountered this question in the context of the development of technology, like artificial intelligence, which sometimes...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Moons of our Solar System Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Moons of our Solar System

...manage your digital badges online from My OpenLearn. In addition, you can download and print your OpenLearn statement of participation - which also displays your Open University badge. The Open University would really appreciate a few minutes of your time to tell us about yourself and your expectations for the course before you begin, in our optional start-of-course...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
How to compare income across countries
Science, Maths & Technology

How to compare income across countries

...managed to produce: From the charts you should hopefully see that the the values are likely to have increased for all the countries (except, perhaps, during particular periods of time where “events” have occurred), although they are likely to vary widely in terms of value across countries from different parts of the world. If you look at the range of dates over which...
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Video 45 mins
Ymarfer corff ac iechyd meddwl
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ymarfer corff ac iechyd meddwl

...management of depression: systematic review and meta-regression analysis of randomised controlled trials’, British Medical Journal (argraffiad Clinical Research ), cyf. 322, rhif. 7289, tt. 763–7...Ymarfer corff ac iechyd meddwl: Acknowledgements - Cydnabyddiaeth Mae'r deunydd a gydnabyddir isod yn ddeunydd Perchnogol sy'n cael ei ddefnyddio o dan drwydded (sydd ddim...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Children’s rights
Society, Politics & Law

Children’s rights

...manage their relations among boys and girls in the classroom context. It’s not enough to get the forms and the structures right, but you really have to engage with children in talking about their feelings and their sense of inclusion or exclusion in order to make policy work for all children so that the imposition of a rule doesn’t end up with getting children into a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Five pillars of ageing well
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five pillars of ageing well

...management and delay the ageing processes. Five main pillars of the Ageing Well series are nutrition, hydration, physical, social and cognitive stimulation. Today I am going to talk about nutrition. You may know already that our basic metabolic rate and functions slow down with ageing. Regular physical activity and good hydration are known to help raising the basic...
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Video 10 mins
Note taking in relation to the Social Sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Note taking in relation to the Social Sciences

...manageable sections. From that it is important to be selective and one of the ways you would do that is by picking out important words, topics, issues, arguments, what about the key debates in a particular part of a chapter, or key debates that have come across in a television programme, what are the theories, what are the themes. These are all highlighting the kind of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr