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Hidden Maths
Science, Maths & Technology

Hidden Maths

...find our free resources useful in working out everything from VAT to how much grass seed to order to re-do the lawn this summer. If you’re interested in studying Maths and Stats specifically, or taking a course that involves an element of these subjects, visit The Open University's Mathematics courses to find out more. Free courses and activities on Maths and Statistics...
Article 5 mins
Essential skills for OU study
Education & Development

Essential skills for OU study

...Work through the courses at your own pace and in your own time, or focus on a specific skill you’d like to improve. So, welcome (or welcome back) to studying with the OU! Bookmark this page and use these free resources as and when you need them. This collection of resources was compiled from OpenLearn's 'skills for study' section. If you're looking for even more free...
The Romantics
History & The Arts

The Romantics

...work was affected by its historical context. This material forms part of The Open University course A230 Reading and studying literature... Romantic authorship Professor Andrew Bennett discusses the idea of authorship. The self How did Romantic writers represent ‘the self’? Wordsworth and De Quincy Bill Greenwell adapts one of Wordsworth’s poems ‘To daffodils’...
Audio 31 mins
Seeking Sanctuary
Society, Politics & Law

Seeking Sanctuary

...working to give asylum-seekers and refugees a political voice, as well as change mainstream attitudes towards them. Perspective: Taking Sanctuary Refugees and asylum-seekers looking for sanctuary in the UK face many challenges, such as hostility and isolation. Often, mainstream attitudes are that they are victims or threats, and, as such, they tend to be treated as less...
Practice supervision and assessment in nursing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Practice supervision and assessment in nursing

...working with students in workplace settings across nursing provision. Core to these resources are the requirements of the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) – the nursing regulator – to work in different ways to support learners. The principles discussed, however, would apply as best practice to any working environment where employees are seeking to develop themselves...
Human rights and law
Society, Politics & Law

Human rights and law

...work on international human rights treaties would reveal over fifty different treaties, conventions and protocols (instruments which effect an amendment to a treaty or convention). Box 1: The verdict on public international law As this course (and the other W100 courses available on OpenLearn: Europe and the law, Judges and the law, Making and using rules) examine rules,...
Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Tracing your family history
History & The Arts

Tracing your family history

...work back a generation, you double the number of direct ancestors; thus you have four grandparents, eight great-grandparents and so on. Continue adding data to the tree until you've run out of information, or are unsure about how accurate it is. Your job is to fill in some of the blanks, or eradicate any questions you might have about the 'facts' you have unearthed to...
Nationalism, self-determination and secession
Society, Politics & Law

Nationalism, self-determination and secession

...works range from the bitter dispute between Palestine and Israel, to the ongoing debates about secession which threaten to break up old multinational states like the UK and Canada. If you have any apprehensions about ‘doing political theory’, I would simply say: there’s no need! Just work through the text, and by the end you will find yourself in possession of some...