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Exploring a Romano-African city: Thugga
History & The Arts

Exploring a Romano-African city: Thugga

...Oued Khalled, in a fertile landscape of olives and grain. The city is well preserved and extensively excavated. We’ll be exploring the remains to investigate how the town developed and what impact Roman occupation had on the city. Thugga was already a flourishing city the 4th century BC. Well before the kingdom of Numidia was added to the Roman Empire, it was a centre...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
Sound for music technology: An introduction
Science, Maths & Technology

Sound for music technology: An introduction

...become what it is today. Throughout its 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...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Effective communication in the workplace Badge icon
Money & Business

Effective communication in the workplace

...become irritating to the speaker...Week 2: Communication skills: 2.4 Avoiding seeming judgemental - As far as possible, remain neutral until you have listened to what the speaker has to say. If you display anger, frustration or disapproval when someone is talking to you, they will respond by adjusting what they are saying and may also become angry, scared, defensive or...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Sir David Attenborough - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Sir David Attenborough - Earth in Vision

...becomes a picture book and, of course, picture books are very good and people and children with their imagination can use picture books, but the imagination needs to feed on solid fact, and direct experience of animals and direct experience of countryside is absolutely crucial, otherwise you don’t know what it implies. Obligations of the filmmakers… Filmmakers making...
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Video 40 mins
Dirt, waste and revulsion: How cultures cope with leftovers and mess
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dirt, waste and revulsion: How cultures cope with leftovers and mess

...becomes seized of the germ theory of disease. Once we have the germ theory of disease it's fascinating, it seems to answer a whole lot of questions, it's also a bit frightening. And so you have an exhibition which really says this is how you fight the war against this alien invader that you can't see, that's going to be all around you: germs. So it was a terrific selling...
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Article 30 mins
Children and young people: food and food marketing
Education & Development

Children and young people: food and food marketing

...becoming aware of food marketing? Why might this be problematic? [MUSIC PLAYING] HEATHER MONTGOMERY Hello. I'm Heather Montgomery. I'm here today with my colleague psychologist, Dr. Mimi Tatlow-Golden, who's going to be talking about the work she's done on children. And you've worked on children and food, I believe? MIMI TATLOW-GOLDEN I have. Yeah. Yeah. I also do some...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Energy resources: solar energy
Nature & Environment

Energy resources: solar energy

...become uncomfortably hot, even in the UK. The darker solids are, the more short-wave radiation they absorb - black cars become hotter inside than do white ones on sunny days. The most common design using water as a heat absorber is a flat glass plate set above a waterproof black surface (Figure 4a). Water flows slowly between the two, becomes heated and can either be...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Exploring anxiety
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring anxiety

...become synonymous and strongly associated with the possibility of negative outcomes. Risk is less often viewed in terms of balancing good with adverse outcomes. The OpenLearn course Challenging ideas in mental health discusses this further, exploring the meaning of risk in the context of mental health. It is perhaps not surprising therefore that societal views as well as...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs