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Voices from the Global South: an international field trip
Society, Politics & Law

Voices from the Global South: an international field trip

...become a geographer fit for the twenty-first century. The six videos that make up this field trip have been carefully produced to ensure that the contributors you hear and see speak directly to the issues of the climate crisis; their views, in other words, are not mediated by a narrator. Such directness not only adds an urgency to the debate around the climate crisis, but...
Approaching prose fiction
History & The Arts

Approaching prose fiction

...become expert readers, we may begin to see some flaws in the workmanship or in the coherence of the design itself. But as beginning students our first task is to become aware of the pattern of meanings which can be discerned in the novel we are studying. It is only with practice and experience that we shall begin to see that the flood of books we call novels have features...
Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Exploring criminology: problem-solving courts
Society, Politics & Law

Exploring criminology: problem-solving courts

...become frayed and weakened Social life is characterised by various relationships – those with family and friends, neighbours, wider communities, and those people have with social institutions such as government services, schools or universities. But what happens when things go wrong in social relationships – how do societies deal with that? When social relationships...
Exploring cells with digital fluorescence microscopy
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring cells with digital fluorescence microscopy

...student using a fluorescence microscope in The Open University’s laboratories...Exploring cells with digital fluorescence microscopy: 1.1 Why do we need microscopy? - Almost all cells are too small to be seen with the naked eye, so the study of cellular structure only began with the development of lenses and microscopes that could magnify cells many hundreds of times. A...
An introduction to interaction design
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to interaction design

...become part of everyday life. But how can interactions be designed to best meet their purpose and offer good user experience? This free course, An introduction to interaction design, explores this topic. You will learn: what interaction design is; the importance of user-centred design - with its goals and principles; how interaction design focuses on the characteristics...
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change

...OU and Radio 4. All our interviewees in this series are being asked the same first question which is: when did you first get interested in energy? NS: I’d been working on economics and development all my professional life, starting in the late sixties, so energy in relation to development has always been an important subject for me, but focussing on energy is really...
The family at the centre of early learning
Education & Development

The family at the centre of early learning

...become more familiar with looking at the findings from research studies in order to understand complex ideas – in this instance, the influence of culture on children’s learning. Finally, the course closes by looking specifically at ‘stay and play’ or ‘parent and toddler’ sessions, so that you can consider whether family learning changes as children begin to...
Exploring educational leadership
Education & Development

Exploring educational leadership

...become ‘senior leadership teams’ (Gunter, 2004). It is important to note that we are not suggesting that people are either leaders or managers, but rather that most roles are an amalgam of the two and that the proportions may vary according to the context or situation. It may not be helpful to force a distinction between leaders and managers as that narrows down the...