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Writing from the heart
Education & Development

Writing from the heart

...Open University explores whether we offer young writers enough opportunities for ‘writing from the heart’...Our Teachers as Writers research reveals the highly personal nature of much writing. Threaded through our data from the Arvon residential we can see a strong sense of ‘writing from the heart’. In some ways this not surprising; we know that writers draw on...
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Article 10 mins
Business Bursts: Marketing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Business Bursts: Marketing

...let’s say Mercedes Benz has. So everything about the message being sent out was wrong. So people just didn’t buy Rover cars because the product didn’t reflect what they thought it was, which is why Rover went bankrupt. 3’50” Get your marketing right Get your message clear with The Open University's course An introduction to retail management and marketing...
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Belfast - healthy city
Society, Politics & Law

Belfast - healthy city

...Open University course K311 Promoting public health: skills, perspectives and practice... Belfast - healthy city A short introduction to this album. Healthy Cities: the idea Ilona Kickbusch on how the Healthy Cities Movement began in the mid nineteen eighties as a European initiative. Healthy Cities: the reality Ilona Kickbusch on how the initiative spread out from Europe...
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Finite Element Analysis
Science, Maths & Technology

Finite Element Analysis

...Open University course T884 An introduction to Finite Element Analysis... Finite element analysis in Formula 1 A short introduction to this album. This is Formula 1! How final element analysis is used to get maximum performance out of Formula 1 cars, focussing on two components: the wheel hub and the 'tub'. Component function The first step in final element analysis is to...
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Audio 48 mins
The Long Table
Society, Politics & Law

The Long Table

...open public forum that is a hybrid performance-installation-roundtable-discussion-dinner-party designed to facilitate dialogue through the gathering together of people with common interests. It was initiated by artists and cultural organisations and encourages people to participate through special events. The Long Table is local, national, transnational and global in...
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Article 5 mins
A brief introduction to co-design
Science, Maths & Technology

A brief introduction to co-design

...it is needed and what role professional designers can play in making it happen. Transcript If you are interested to learn more about some of the methods and approaches used to enable co-design, see the article co-design approaches. Acknowledgements: This OpenLearn page was produced through collaboration between The Open University and The Glass-House Community Led Design....
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Secret History of Sterilisation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Secret History of Sterilisation

...institutions enforced sterilisations and actively prevented social and sexual activity among residents. But as we hear in this moving programme presented by Liz Tilley from The Open University, the reasons behind decisions to sterilise these women were complex and sometimes unexpected... A Secret History of Sterilisation A history told by the survivors of sterilisation....
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Audio 16 mins
Hafan: What do you know about Welsh language and culture?
Languages

Hafan: What do you know about Welsh language and culture?

...be interested in finding out more about Wales and Welsh by doing our short online course ‘Discovering Wales and Welsh’. For more information go to on the course select here. A free taster is available on OpenLearn in our free course Discovering Wales and Welsh: First Steps. We're proud that The OU in Wales took Hafan to the Senedd - you can read the full story here...
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Activity 15 mins