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Managing complexity: a systems approach
Society, Politics & Law

Managing complexity: a systems approach

...Open University courses. You may have other experiences of studying. What sort of activities do you expect to engage in when you study a course? What sorts of activities have in the past been most effective in enabling you to learn? These questions are easier to answer if you think back to a specific course or other learning experience. What did you actually do? What were...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Form and uses of language
History & The Arts

Form and uses of language

...educated at home until he was 13, he was sent to a prominent public school, Marlborough. Although he had begun to write poetry at an early age, his expectations – like those of many young men of his generation – were that his privileged life would continue without the need for him to do much more than indulge his hobbies of golf, hunting and socialising. He continued...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Succeed with maths: part 1 Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 1

...resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Week 2: Working with numbers: Introduction - In this week you will extend your work from Week 1 by looking at decimals again. You will also learn about powers (or exponentiation). When using all the mathematical operations you’ve studied so far, it is important to...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Dawn Parsonage-Kent - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dawn Parsonage-Kent - Earth in Vision

...open to creative ideas, to looking at things differently, so as long as that continues then we can do some really, really powerful stuff. Hopefully Green.TV will start becoming more well-known, become more of a traditional broadcaster in a way, not in a linear, television form, but a place where people will go to catch the next shows, for instance. At the moment we’re...
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Video 30 mins
Understanding water quality
Nature & Environment

Understanding water quality

...Open University This resource was created by the Open University and released in OpenLearn as part of the 'C-change in GEES' project exploring the open licensing of climate change and sustainability resources in the Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences. The C-change in GEES project was funded by HEFCE as part of the JISC/HE Academy UKOER programme and ......
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Five Inspiring Black Trailblazers from across Europe
History & The Arts

Five Inspiring Black Trailblazers from across Europe

...open Ghanian embassies across the continent. He took up a place studying medicine in Yugoslavia after a coup in Ghana sent him into exile. He had intended to return to Africa after completing his medical studies in Europe but, as often happens, love intervened. Peter met and married Karmen Laković, the couple settling in Piran. His election attracted both international...
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Article 10 mins
Exploring the icy moons
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring the icy moons

...Education...‘Astrobiology’ isn’t a subject you can study at school. Can you tell me a little bit about your journey to astrobiology and how you arrived where you are now? By accident! Since childhood, I’ve been interested in in the big questions about where we come from, the evolution of life on Earth, the origins of life on Earth … life as a consequence of...
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Article 10 mins
African Caribbean religions and the problem of representation
History & The Arts

African Caribbean religions and the problem of representation

...Open University's Religious Studies qualifications. The master's tool will never dismantle the master's house (A. Lorde) To understand the stigmatisation, misrepresentation and demonisation of African Caribbean religions, it is pivotal to develop a cultural consciousness which could look critically at the narrative constructed by the West during centuries of colonisation,...
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Article 10 mins