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Health, Sports & Psychology

Working and Learning In Sport and Fitness

...managing others in a range of sport and fitness settings. The eight video tracks on this album follow professionals working in a gym, a sports college and an ice-rink. They demonstrate how to encourage motivation, how to delegate and how to improve your own instructional skills. This material forms part of The Open University course E113 Working and learning in sport and...

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Audio 35 mins

Science, Maths & Technology

The role of business development in AstrobiologyOU

...project management skills to work as a consultant, first in financial technology, developing business software for investment companies, and then helping academics and innovators to link up with industries looking for solutions to innovation problems. I came full circle when I joined the OU, first as a research and enterprise manager in the Faculty of Science, Technology,...

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Article 10 mins

Society, Politics & Law

Mapping Britain

...introduction to the social sciences: understanding social change... Maps - what are they? When people didn’t know about large sections of the world they used their imaginations to fill the blanks. Maps and empire An early projection of the British Empire attempted to show the shape of the globe on paper to assist navigators. Maps, money and the military A map of Ireland...

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Audio 51 mins

Science, Maths & Technology

Space scientist: John Zarnecki

...introduction to this album. Big questions about our universe Zarnecki talks about the projects and ideas that drive him: sending scientific instruments into outer space, how our solar system evolved, and whether life exists on other planets. Huygens Space Probe landing In 2005, a probe landed on Titan, Saturn's largest moon. Zarnecki describes how it felt to gather real...

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Audio 21 mins

Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing Health Sciences: COPD

...introduction to this album Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder Doctors and sufferers discuss COPD and the nature of the disease. Living with COPD Real life stories of people living with COPD, focusing on a support group based in Sheffield. Respiratory Clinic A look at the two tests available for examining COPD. Pulmonary Rehabilitation How COPD can be managed. Helping...

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Audio 28 mins

Science, Maths & Technology

Design and Designing

...introduction to this album Introduction to drawing Controlling fingers and wrist to draw shapes and letters. Shading and toning Using pencil shading to show tone. Modeling a chair How to make a cardboard model of a chair from a cereal carton. Making a cd case How to make a CD case using simple materials. Generating ideas through practice Simple techniques for designing CD...

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Audio 1 hr 7 mins

Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Remaking self-help

...project is quite an unusual one for an academic. It doesn’t involve designing and conducting experiments or interviews, but it does include several different kinds of research. It fairly rarely involves me writing in academic language, but it does draw on academic theory. It doesn’t require much in the way of funding, but it manages to reach a lot of people. In terms...

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Article 5 mins

Money & Business

Budget 2017: Instant reactions

...introduction of T levels, combined with a hotchpotch of piecemeal initiatives to conceal the lack of a strategy. But there are important areas that were largely ignored. First, how is the economy going to develop robust trade links outside of the single market? Things may look rosy at the moment because of low exchange rate, but this is not sustainable. Second, the...

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Article 5 mins

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