3,396 search results
Do tax breaks work well for promoting creative industries?
History & The Arts

Do tax breaks work well for promoting creative industries?

...sources but they utilise it in order to create the best content possible. No-one, of course, would argue that the world (and animation in general) is worse-off because the Secret of Kells was released. They Don’t Bet On Horses In line with the point above is that indirect subsidies do not bet on horses so to speak. Direct subsidies anticipate a certain level of...
View article Do tax breaks work well for promoting creative industries?
Article 5 mins
Blue Monday: An OpenLearn reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Blue Monday: An OpenLearn reading list

...source of reliable information, what does it provide? A source of entertainment perhaps, but I think we should be striving for more than that. And third, when we live in a world where real evidence is undervalued, and the aim of the media is to provide for the whims of the masses rather than actual information, it becomes dangerous. When a headline suggests that one in...
View article Blue Monday: An OpenLearn reading list
Article 5 mins
DNA Profiling
Science, Maths & Technology

DNA Profiling

...source of DNA for profiling when bodies are exhumed. DNA profiling is not used by itself to establish guilt, but can be used in conjunction with other evidence to implicate a person in a crime, or exonerate them. The first step in DNA profiling is the collection of a DNA sample. This is done using strict procedures and storage methods. DNA can be obtained from many...
View article DNA Profiling
Article 10 mins
Introduction to Planetary Protection
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to Planetary Protection

...Open University’s AstrobiologyOU research group (who have authored this course) organised an international event in London in 2024 – the International COSPAR Planetary Protection Week (ICPPW) – which brought together researchers, policy makers, and representatives from national space agencies and industry representatives. At the event we asked the participants...
View course Introduction to Planetary Protection
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Introduction to Spanish
Languages

Introduction to Spanish

...open so that you can give your own information. (You can always make it up if you wish.) Listen and respond following the prompts. Listen and respond, following the prompts. —¿Estudias o trabajas? (Say that you are a student.) —Soy estudiante. —¿Cuál es tu profesión? (Say you are a teacher.) —Soy profesora. —¿En qué trabajas? (Say you are retired.)...
View course Introduction to Spanish
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows
Nature & Environment

Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows

...Open University course U116 Environment: journeys through a changing world...Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: appreciate how chemical processes in the rest of the world affect the Arctic environment and the species inhabiting it recognise the physical processes that determine...
View course Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
What happens to you when you read?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens to you when you read?

...open and are reading to two children, who are stood either side of the chair.] Remember the story of ‘Hansel and Gretel’? This German fairy tale was collected and published in Grimms’ first collection of tales in 1812. It is a story many of us may remember having read to us as children or finding on book-shelves at school. In this activity you will try to identify...
View course What happens to you when you read?
Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Developing resilience in sport
Health, Sports & Psychology

Developing resilience in sport

...course is an adapted extract from the Open University course E312 Athletic development: a psychological perspective....Session 1: Understanding resilience: Introduction - [Image of men and women helping each other to climb over a mud barrier in a challenge race] A Japanese proverb ‘Fall seven times, stand up eight’ effectively captures the essence of...
View course Developing resilience in sport
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs