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Microgravity: living on the International Space Station Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Microgravity: living on the International Space Station

...family has been before, then I hope this course helps you get there. Also, at the end of this week, is a second and final summative test. And if you pass, then you can proudly display your well-earned course badge. Video 1 Introduction to Week 8 By the end of this week, you should be able to: consider the challenges in training to become an astronaut consider the future...
Galaxies, stars and planets
Science, Maths & Technology

Galaxies, stars and planets

...history) or directly observe it for more than a few decades (the working lifetime of a scientist or the time since many modern astronomical methods were developed). Stellar evolutionary processes generally take far too long for anyone to see a noticeable change in their properties (although there are exceptions). It's possible, however, to observe many different stars,...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Creative writing and critical reading
History & The Arts

Creative writing and critical reading

...history of 1970s cinema, which is Peter Biskind's Easy Riders and Raging Bulls. And those kinds of things I find are a very different kind of reading. It's kind of dipping into the index, being led by subject matter more than necessarily thinking about kind of form, which I might go to the more kind of literary things for. So I think that kind of sense of diversity is...
Croeso: Beginners' Welsh
Languages

Croeso: Beginners' Welsh

...history. Closely related to Breton and Cornish, and more distantly to Irish, Manx and Scots Gaelic, it is today spoken by almost 600,000 people in Wales, some 20 per cent of the population. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 1 study in Languages. You can learn more about Wales, the Welsh people and the Welsh language in the free course Discovering Wales and...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Getting started with Spanish 3
Languages

Getting started with Spanish 3

...families: trabajo (work), trabajador (worker), trabajar (to work), trabajoso (laborious), etc. grouping according to structure or use, e.g. sequence organisers: primero (first), después (later), luego (then), finalmente (lastly), etc. collocations, i.e. words that tend to go together, like un calor espantoso (a terrible heat) (Adapted from Hurd and Murphy (2005), pp....
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Reading evidence
Society, Politics & Law

Reading evidence

...families, you know it's not too unusual …’ That kind of remark! Well I just flipped a lid and I said what are you talking about! Abuse and violence are not normal patterns of life … [And anyway] she has got blonde hair and blue eyes, just like you’ … and the shock that came onto her face … (Lewis and Phoenix, 2004, Section 2.3) Discussion This short piece of...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
People-centred designing
Science, Maths & Technology

People-centred designing

...family and visitors. Sometimes the range of users of a product, and their different needs, can be diverse. And in addition to the obvious or intended users there is a variety of people who have to interact with the product in various ways at different times, such as the people who make it or assemble it. CYCLE OF USE AND THE USERS OF A PRODUCT To manufacture the product...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Jim Skea - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Jim Skea - Stories of Change

...history, it goes right back to that period of the 1970s we talked about and basically it was a consumer’s club where people ganged up together to protect themselves against a monopolistic oil supply and it’s gradually developed new kinds of roles. RH: But it’s a rich country’s club at the moment, mainly? JS: Yeah, it is changing quite a lot. What I would say is...