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Understanding the role of art historians in a changing world
History & The Arts

Understanding the role of art historians in a changing world

...Open University speaks to experts from the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and looks at ways in which art historians are responding to a changing world...Transcript ‘Not a lot of people meet the term Art History, or History of Art, at school. It’s not something that’s widely taught’, admits Sarah Victoria Turner, the current Director of the Paul...
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From Astrobiology to Parliament
Science, Maths & Technology

From Astrobiology to Parliament

...Open University's Science courses and qualifications. [Devyani, standing by the Jubilee Fountain in New Palace Yard, to the north-west of the Houses of Parliament. Big Ben behind.]Looking back, what were the highlights of your time working with POST? Honestly, it was one of the best times of my life! Highlights… going up to London every day, walking through Green Park...
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Mental health in society
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mental health in society

...Open University course K243 Critical perspectives on mental health in society....Mental health in society: Introduction - [Described image] This course will explore the different perspectives of mental health and the way in which they are understood. As well as traditionally being related to biology, neurology and psychology, experiences of mental health are also linked...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?

...Open University course DD311 Crime, harm and the state Content warning Study in the social sciences – and criminology in particular – inevitably touches on sensitive and emotive topics that may be difficult and upsetting. This course explores harms against nonhuman animals that you may find difficult to work with, including images of nonhuman animals in
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Histology, microscopy, anatomy and disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Histology, microscopy, anatomy and disease

...resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Week 2: Tissues and cells: Introduction - Welcome to Week 2. In the following video, David Male describes the subjects you will be covering this week, as you build on your ability to identify different types of cell. DAVID MALE In the first part of the course, we...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Customer Service: Expert's Corner with Professor Sally Dibb
Money & Business

Customer Service: Expert's Corner with Professor Sally Dibb

...Open University Business School, is here to answer a few more questions following this week’s episode of The Bottom Line. Sally's research is at the forefront of theoretical and relevant issues in marketing strategy, segmentation, customer relationship management (CRM) and consumer behaviour. What is customer relationship management (CRM)? And why has it become so...
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The refugees hoping to make a splash at Rio 2016
Health, Sports & Psychology

The refugees hoping to make a splash at Rio 2016

...resources and training support. The Solidarity Programme already supports more than 1,700 athletes from developing countries, in addition to the refugee team. When the refugee team makes its entrance at the Opening Ceremony, it will be the first time a team will march at the Olympics representing no nation. They will march to the Olympic Anthem; they will carry the...
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Disraeli on Munich
History & The Arts

Disraeli on Munich

...open, the studio of the painter crowded: devoted pupils, aspiring rivals: enthusiasm, emulation, excellence. Here the long-lost feudal-art of colouring glass re-discovered; there fresco-painting entirely revived, and on the grandest scale; while the ardent researches of another man of genius successfully analyses the encaustic tenting of Herculaneum, and secures the...
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