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Science, Maths & Technology

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM

...project manager of eSTEeM, for her unstinted support to this course in innumerable ways. Enormous gratitude is due to Dale Harry of OpenLearn for his guidance, kind care and patience in the editing and production of this course. Thanks very much to our OpenLearn colleagues, Sas Amoah, Ana Collins, Catherine Halliwell, James Richards, Luke Yorke and Marcus Young who helped...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Personal and career development in engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Personal and career development in engineering

...introduction to this album. The Work and Background of a Female Automotive Engineer Penny Freeman, a professional automotive engineer, talks about her career in car and component manufacturing in the UK. Life as a Digital Communications Engineer Steve Baker, an electronics engineer, talks about his career in electronic hardware and software engineering. Implementing New...
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Audio 1 hr 6 mins
Air Pollution
Science, Maths & Technology

Air Pollution

...management and looks at how we analyse pollution control problems. Five video tracks review the nature and characteristics of air pollution today and demonstrate how air quality data is interpreted. They include a comparison between shipping and car emission levels, the processes used to remove pollutants from the air, and ways in which British Aerospace could limit its...
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Audio 26 mins
Improving the everyday lives of carers
Health, Sports & Psychology

Improving the everyday lives of carers

...project, which included a team from the Open University led by Dr Verina Waights, have developed a website to support carers through helping them to use digital technologies and get online. ...Find out about The Open University's Health and Social Care courses and qualifications. [Image of a young carer and an older person talking] Over a 100 million people in Europe care...
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Article 10 mins
Opening up history: the intersections of tobacco consumption and modern war
History & The Arts

Opening up history: the intersections of tobacco consumption and modern war

...management brings the project in line with recent work by historians on other intoxicants, including alcohol, cocaine and amphetamines, and their use in wartime. Some historians sideline tobacco though, because it has pretty much always been permitted (making it a ‘soft drug’, alongside tea and coffee), as opposed to generally illicit ‘hard drugs’ which have been...
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Article 5 mins
Why do some cities thrive?
Science, Maths & Technology

Why do some cities thrive?

...project aimed at understanding transitions through boom, bust and austerity for UK cities, and the lessons that can be learned from the past 50 years of economic history that might help cities prepare for the decades ahead. It will be the largest ever analysis of the post-industrial fortunes of the UK’s cities. It builds on work that Martin and his team carried out for...
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Article 5 mins
The importance of interpersonal skills
Money & Business

The importance of interpersonal skills

...Introduction - Much of what is most important about management is interpersonal, how we deal with others. Awareness of our own and others’ interpersonal skills can help us enormously in dealing with the work tasks we are responsible for. This course is also available in Welsh on Openlearn Cymru. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 1 study in Business &...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Stories from our Black students
Money & Business

Stories from our Black students

...project into Black students’ experiences on a peer mentoring scheme, we interviewed four first-year students. During these interviews, they talked broadly about the challenges they faced in balancing their lives and their study at The Open University...Listen to their inspiring stories below. In these, they share how having a long-term vision of achieving a degree...
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Audio 15 mins