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Building motivation and resilience in research
Science, Maths & Technology

Building motivation and resilience in research

...Open University. I’ve been an academic at The Open University since 2006, having completed my PhD at Imperial College London in 2005. Today I’m going to talk about some of the research setbacks that I have experienced and some common research setbacks and how to overcome them. The key thing I think I’ve learned through these setbacks is to see each of these events...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
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
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
Forensic science and fingerprints
Health, Sports & Psychology

Forensic science and fingerprints

...sources and make logical deductions as a result demonstrate an understanding of how forensic scientists operate and use scientific evidence in a legal context...Forensic science and fingerprints: 1 Introduction to fingerprints - In this section you will learn the principles used in classifying and matching fingerprints (often called 'marks'). Question 1 From your general...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
David Hume
History & The Arts

David Hume

...open the eyes of the public. If I live a few years longer, I may have the satisfaction of seeing the downfall of some of the prevailing systems of superstition.” But Charon would then lose all temper and decency. “You loitering rogue, that will not happen these many hundred years. Do you fancy I will grant you a lease for so long a term? Get into the boat this...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Exploring Ovid’s big ideas
History & The Arts

Exploring Ovid’s big ideas

...Open University’s Classical Studies courses and qualifications....Exploring Ovid’s big ideas: Introduction - The Roman poet Ovid has always been a bit of a mystery. Hugely controversial in his own time, he was banished from Rome – if we are to take him at his own word – for his poetry. But this did not stop him from being extraordinarily influential on everyone...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs