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Evolutions in Education: The OU Education Conference
Education & Development

Evolutions in Education: The OU Education Conference

...course, Professional Learning into Action on OpenLearn Create to gain recognition and demonstrate the impact of taking part with a digital badge. The course takes around two hours to complete and will guide you through a process of Appreciative Inquiry to take action as a result of your interaction with the conference and/or this hub. Overview of the conference Evolutions...
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Exploring Ireland’s historic army barracks network
OpenLearn Ireland

Exploring Ireland’s historic army barracks network

...course, the compulsory billeting of soldiers on civilians also provoked intense opposition. In the wake of the War of the Grand Alliance, some argued in favour of maintaining the king’s large army in peacetime on the basis that Catholic France and the Jacobite court in exile remained a significant threat. Others argued in favour of disbanding the large Williamite army...
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Rock Clocks
Science, Maths & Technology

Rock Clocks

...course it cannot go back right to the formation of Earth, because the young Earth was hot and most of the outer part was probably molten, but even so this is a vast period of time. [The Earth. Image: NASA] How do we know how old the rocks are? We can think of geological time in 2 ways: relative and absolute. Relative time disregards years and only considers whether one...
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Five tips on how to plan new self-care routines
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five tips on how to plan new self-care routines

...courses Self-care is a concept that has been gaining further momentum over the past decade. However, it is a term that has gained new meaning in 2020; a year in which the COVID-19 pandemic has upended many aspects of our lives, disrupting how we live and work on a day-to-day basis, while also impacting on how we perceive the future. In combination, these circumstances...
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The history of surfing
Health, Sports & Psychology

The history of surfing

...course, getting wet is fine when the weather’s hot or the water’s warm, and summers in the Pacific waters of Southern California, Western Australia and the islands of Hawaii provide lots of both. In Britain the height of summer may only bring a few weeks’ sunshine, with water temperatures rising little above 18° even on the warm South West coast, and it is...
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Three Irish Poets – Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
OpenLearn Ireland

Three Irish Poets – Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

...course A210, Approaching Literature. If you want to explore these topics further you could opt to study A100 The Arts Past and Present which includes material on Irish national identity in the unit ‘Tradition and Dissent’. A multi-disciplinary course, AA100 also introduces you to literary study. If you enjoy in-depth discussion and analysis of literature, you might be...
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Studying Environments and Societies
Society, Politics & Law

Studying Environments and Societies

...course ‘Environment and Society’, two lecturers discuss how a geographical imagination helps to understand how the environment is entangled with the cultural, the economic, the social, and the political. They also discuss how the new course draws upon cutting-edge research being carried out by the Open University’s academics. Environment and Society (DD213) will be...
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Life after sport: giving back
Health, Sports & Psychology

Life after sport: giving back

...courses and qualifications. [Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson with a quote about OpenLearn's course on athlete's retirement.]Show description"The OU have teamed up with Abertay University to produce a really valuable piece of work, first of all acknowledging that athletes go through many phases in their career. When you are on the outside looking in it is not always easy to...
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