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Language and creativity
Languages

Language and creativity

...Open University course E302 Language and creativity...Language and creativity: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand key issues in the relationship between language and creativity understand some of the different ways that linguistic creativity can be studied understand the importance of creativity in human
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Michael Jacobs - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Michael Jacobs - Stories of Change

...Open University Transcript Stories of Change Project Michael Jacobs interview Key RH: = Roger Harrabin, interviewer MJ: = Michael Jacobs special adviser to Gordon Brown from 2004-10, participant RH: So I’m in a restaurant in Bonn and the climate change talks have just broken for the evening, in so far as they ever do properly break, and I’m sitting having a beer, a...
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Audio 5 mins
The Moon
Science, Maths & Technology

The Moon

...source of moonquakes, so this marks the base of the lunar lithosphere, below which it is probably slowly convecting. Like the Earth's mantle, that of the Moon is approximately peridotite in composition, though there are signs that it varies in detail from region to region. The Moon's core is between about 220 and 450 km in radius (so the core-mantle boundary is at least...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Rights and justice in international relations
Society, Politics & Law

Rights and justice in international relations

...Open University course DU301 A world of whose making?...Rights and justice in international relations: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the different interpretations of internationally recognised notions of rights and justice give examples of implementing justice in an international sphere investigate questions in...
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Level 3: Advanced 13 hrs
General principles of cellular communication
Science, Maths & Technology

General principles of cellular communication

...Open University course S317 Biological science: from genes to species...General principles of cellular communication: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: describe in general terms how extrinsic signals activate cell signalling pathways to elicit cellular responses describe how cell signalling processes facilitate quorum sensing in...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
John Napier
Science, Maths & Technology

John Napier

...source of knowledge; it was dedicated (by Wright’s son, for Wright died before publication) to the East India Company, another of the great trading and exploration companies of the time. This dedication suggests an audience for whom the knowledge was thought to be useful – Wright was navigational consultant to the Company for the last year or two of his life....
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
What is Europe?
Society, Politics & Law

What is Europe?

...opened up perspectives on a broader Europe of a less well-defined character, but at least one that was unconstrained by structures of superpower control. The independence of the reconstructed eastern Europe and the severing of Russian links throughout the area was confirmed with the dissolution of the Soviet Union a couple of weeks after the Maastricht meeting. The newly...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Introducing healthcare improvement
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing healthcare improvement

...Open University course Leading healthcare improvements (K827 ). . Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence)....
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs