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Extending your learning with postgraduate skills
Education & Development

Extending your learning with postgraduate skills

...students have said they gained from studying their MA: "This is my third Masters but, despite now having a young family, this is the one I have worked the hardest at and am getting the most out of. In particular, this is the only one which has really helped me gain the skills of analysis, evaluation, and criticality which allow me to present well-founded opinions." -...
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A trip to Brighton
History & The Arts

A trip to Brighton

...becoming the modern city of Brighton and Hove was the passion for sea bathing that led to the Prince Regent's decision to build what is now known as the Royal Pavilion there. Try a free course sample: The design and construction of Brighton Pavilion The design of the Pavilion was heavily influenced by the poetry and beliefs of the Romantic movement. Explore the other...
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Learning through spoken interaction
Education & Development

Learning through spoken interaction

...students. This provides two challenges for learners. They either need to fully understand or They need to be able to ask questions to understand. Lack of understanding could be the result of two factors. It could be that the learner has not understood the idea or it could be due to a lack of understanding the language used to express the idea. In both cases, the learner...
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Wheelchair basketball player Yasmin on coaching, classification and the cost of disability sport
Health, Sports & Psychology

Wheelchair basketball player Yasmin on coaching, classification and the cost of disability sport

...Student Voice Champions at The Open University. She’ll be tuning into the Tokyo Paralympics, but with mixed feelings, as she explains...“I’m mad about disability sport and love learning new things”, says Yasmin who’s just completed her first year of a Sports, Fitness and Coaching degree with the OU. Having left school after her GCSEs, she began a career working...
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Charity Reed
Education & Development

Charity Reed

...OU degree, found some to support her during her studies and others just for the fun of learning (and improving her quizzing skills!), as she explains...[OpenLearn case study user Charity Reed] ‘I’ve loved discovering OpenLearn,’ Charity told us, ‘I genuinely don’t think I’ll ever not use OpenLearn if I’m honest.’ For Charity, her OpenLearn discovery began...
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Bayesian statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

Bayesian statistics

...becomes available. Section 3 introduces the main ideas of the Bayesian inference process. The prior distribution summarises beliefs about the value of a parameter before data are observed. The likelihood function summarises information about a parameter contained in observed data and the posterior distribution represents what is known about a parameter after the data have...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Is there life on Mars?
Science, Maths & Technology

Is there life on Mars?

...student at The Open University, explores...Mars is usually depicted as a dry, cold, and inhospitable world… but plenty of evidence tells the story of a more benign planet: a Mars spotted with lakes and rivers. Nevertheless, at some point in the past, around 3.5 billion years ago, the martian atmosphere started becoming thinner and thinner, prompting the liquid water on...
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What is Law?
Society, Politics & Law

What is Law?

...Thank you very much, Caroline. The Development of Equity What is equity and how did it come about? Find out with our short animated video. Want to learn more? If you would like to find out more about studying law at the OU, visit the OU Law School website. If you are already registered as a student at the OU, you can find out more by visiting the Law Study Home website....
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