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Water for life
Nature & Environment

Water for life

...history. For example, words that sound like 'water' have been used for this liquid for thousands of years. The old English term was 'waeter', in old Saxon 'watar', in old German 'wazzar' and ancient Greek 'hudor'. For common compounds these old names linger on: water, ammonia, salt and alcohol are just some examples. However, there are millions of different compounds - if...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Sound for music technology: An introduction
Science, Maths & Technology

Sound for music technology: An introduction

...history, music has freely exploited state-of-the-art technological developments, and has had an intimate relationship with sciences such as physics, mathematics and, more recently, electronics and computing. T212 The Technology of Music, the OU's course on music technology, explores many examples that highlight this close relationship of music with both technology and the...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
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...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 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...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
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,...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
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...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 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...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 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....
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs