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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...
Article 5 mins
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...
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...
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....
Video 10 mins
How to make a mountain: Investigating crustal melting in the Himalaya
Science, Maths & Technology

How to make a mountain: Investigating crustal melting in the Himalaya

...student, Stacy Phillips, explains how researching granites in Eastern Bhutan can give clues about the evolution of the Himalayan mountain belt. ...[Stacy Phillips at Tangmachu beach, eastern Bhutan.] Stacy at Tangmachu beach, eastern Bhutan. Mountain belts represent areas of the earth’s crust that have been distorted by geological processes, been buried at depth and...
Methods in Motion: The social psychology of citizenship
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: The social psychology of citizenship

...becoming a political agent. This focus on act and actor-oriented citizenship is aligned with a social psychological perspective. As John Shotter (1993) suggested some time ago, we should study citizenship in action. Indeed, social psychology’s particular contribution to the study of citizenship has to do with its capacity to uncover how citizenship is understood,...
Developing good academic practice
Education & Development

Developing good academic practice

...become an experienced student you will be expected to follow the rules and plagiarism will be punished when it’s detected. However, these cases are rare and usually arise from deliberate cheating. The time spent studying the topics covered in the course early in your studies is a valuable investment that will help you throughout your studies and elsewhere. The course is...
Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Group theory
Science, Maths & Technology

Group theory

...OU level 2 or equivalent. Section 1 describes how to construct a group called the direct product of two given groups, and then describes certain conditions under which a group can be regarded as the direct product of its subgroups. Section 2 describes the key properties of the structure of cyclic groups. Section 3 introduces the notion of a set of generators of a group...
Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs