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Making sense of art history
History & The Arts

Making sense of art history

...Humanities Tell us what you think! We’d love to hear from you to help us improve our free learning offering through OpenLearn by filling out this short survey...Making sense of art history: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: identify the effects of art works understand a range of artistic techniques, such as the use of colour,...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Caring for adults
Health, Sports & Psychology

Caring for adults

...Resource Pack) It is essential that we have a method of communication; an opportunity to communicate and a subject to communicate about. In order to make communication accessible to everyone, you need to use all the methods available to you to give and receive information. Aids to communication include gestures, body language, signs, symbols, photographs, objects of...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Bill McKibben - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill McKibben - Stories of Change

...resource we’ve got that gets cheaper and cheaper the more of it you use. So I think that eventually, these guys will get a clue and do the right thing. They could’ve owned this industry, if they’d gotten smart ten or fifteen years ago; but they didn’t and so they’re gonna be playing catch up. RH: But I notice you keep harking back to solar. Now, solar is a...
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Freeing people caught between life and death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freeing people caught between life and death

...resources, our ancestors evolved a brain that can focus on that approaching spear or lurking lion rather than a broad sweep of savannah landscape. One can think of it as a spotlight of attention that illuminates key sensory information in the brain, which then enters into conscious awareness. This is the mind’s spotlight on the outside world, with awareness at its focus...
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Textiles in Ghana
History & The Arts

Textiles in Ghana

...Humanities...Textiles in Ghana: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate an awareness of the ways in which meanings and values are assigned to textiles understand the changing history of the making of kente and adinkra discuss the role of the market place in the changing history of kente and adinkra making...Textiles in Ghana: 1...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Discovering chemistry

...resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses ...Session 1: Atoms – the building blocks of matter: Introduction - Atoms are the basic building blocks of all the substances around you, rather like letters are used to construct words and hence a language. And a look ‘inside’ an atom is perhaps your best starting...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Exploring ancient Greek religion
History & The Arts

Exploring ancient Greek religion

...humans and even objects. Although we do not have comparable tales from the Amphiareion which describe Amphiaraos’ medical expertise, we do have text-bearing dedications (that is, religious objects often erected within religious settings to honour a divinity – such as the one depicted in Figure 3) which clearly relate to acts of healing. Such evidence, which you’ll...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
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Money & Business

Managing my money for young adults

...resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses. Don't miss out If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Session 1:...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs