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EPQs: writing up your dissertation
Education & Development

EPQs: writing up your dissertation

...open access sources and the Open University research repository. What? Use of CAM by young people has increased since 2000. Young women use CAM more than young men. The most common sources for getting information about CAM are friends and family and social media. Key message The best way to provide information for young people about CAM is through social media. Take away...
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How the stove changed the kitchen
Society, Politics & Law

How the stove changed the kitchen

...open fire rather than on her stove well into the interwar period. Other families used the stove only in the summer months or for selective cooking. Winifred Renshaw’s family continued to use their range during the winter months even after they had their gas stove. In the same period, Joyce Skinner’s family used the range in their living room for boiling hot water and...
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Bayesian statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

Bayesian statistics

...course, Bayesian statistics, is an extract from the Open University course M249 Practical modern statistics, a second level course that provides a broad perspective on modern statistics by introducing you to four important topics: medical statistics, time series, multivariate analysis and Bayesian statistics. Each of these is given a practical introduction with...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
175 years of women's activism in the EIS
Society, Politics & Law

175 years of women's activism in the EIS

...Open University's Social Sciences courses. On 18 September 1847, around 600 teachers from across Scotland, gathered together in the hall of the High School, Edinburgh, to establish the Educational Institute of Scotland, making it also the oldest teaching union in the world. In 2022 the EIS celebrated the power of our women members in making us 175 years strong. [Banner in...
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What failing in the learning journey feels like
Education & Development

What failing in the learning journey feels like

...Open University's Education courses and qualifications. Failing an assignment at whatever point in your learning journey is not simply an academic event – it can feel deeply personal, almost existential. Students often describe an overwhelming mix of shock, disbelief, grief, and shame. These mix of emotions can raise questions regarding self and study. How the feedback...
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Unlikely Leaders
Money & Business

Unlikely Leaders

...source of support or trust, and as a result people have started looking elsewhere. In this series of short films, Open University experts nominate their own ‘Unlikely Leader,’ from Russell Brand to Olympic boxer Nicola Adams, challenging our assumptions about the meaning of Leadership and encouraging us to think differently about just what makes a ‘great leader’....
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Video 58 mins
Machine translation in language learning and teaching
Languages

Machine translation in language learning and teaching

...open a new window or tab so you can easily return without having to use the back button in your browser. You can do this by holding down the ‘CTRL’ key (or CMD on a Mac) and left clicking the mouse button; or right click and ‘open in new tab’. Bing DeepL Google Translate Systran Activity 1 Timing: Allow approximately 15 minutes Translate into English one of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Learning from the past with historic buildings
History & The Arts

Learning from the past with historic buildings

...sources. Changes that started with the Industrial Revolution and the rise in urban populations have created what we can now call fossil fuel cities; firstly from coal, and then from gas and oil. In architectural terms, the presence of coal is visible through chimneys, and the fireplaces inside. The way we build expresses our relationship with energy: this now needs to be...
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