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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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Article 5 mins
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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Article 10 mins
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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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...
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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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Article 10 mins
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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Video 10 mins
Opening up history: anti-nuclear activism during the Cold War
History & The Arts

Opening up history: anti-nuclear activism during the Cold War

...students. Before joining the OU, I was teaching the history of the Cold War at LSE, and I had a couple of very bright Canadian MA students who kept asking me to add Canadian content to the seminars. This led me to read up on different aspects of it, and I found there was a considerable gap in the historiography, which I hope to address with my forthcoming book. From...
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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...
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