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Modelling and estimation
Science, Maths & Technology

Modelling and estimation

...techniques and definitions are present in the extract without explanation. Mathematical/statistical content at the Open University is usually provided to students in printed books, with PDFs of the same online. This format ensures that mathematical notation is presented accurately and clearly. The PDF of this extract thus shows the content exactly as it would be seen by...
Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
How Do Jurors Decide When a Witness is Telling the Truth?
Society, Politics & Law

How Do Jurors Decide When a Witness is Telling the Truth?

...training, and by the use of specialist cognitive techniques, but these measures would be difficult and/or costly to implement in criminal trials. But informing jurors about the factors that research has shown are – and perhaps more importantly are not – associated with truthfulness would be a start and might serve at least to prevent the most glaring misconceptions....
Managing Relationships and Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Managing Relationships and Work

...techniques for how to nurture and modify your professional relationships, to enhance your experience at work. There are also further resources you may find useful in the Applying Psychology at Work hub, under the themes of ‘Wellbeing for Work’, ‘Trust in the Workplace’, ‘Dealing with Change’ and ‘Signposts for Work’. There are articles, such as this one,...
Vikings - just misunderstood?
History & The Arts

Vikings - just misunderstood?

...techniques, they were among the earliest investors in global technologies in a post-Roman world that, even then, was increasingly international. And today, as a modern recreation of a Viking vessel embarks for the first ever Viking exhibition in China, it’s clear their appeal is truly global. [The Conversation]This article was originally published on The Conversation....
Medical statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

Medical statistics

...techniques and definitions are present in the extract without explanation. Mathematical/statistical content at the Open University is usually provided to students in printed books, with PDFs of the same online. This format ensures that mathematical notation is presented accurately and clearly. The PDF of this extract thus shows the content exactly as it would be seen by...
Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
How did music influence Virgina Woolf?
History & The Arts

How did music influence Virgina Woolf?

...technique of shifting from one narrative perspective to another in order to represent the unspoken thoughts and feelings of her characters. The short story ‘A Simple Melody’ (c.1925) encapsulates her acute interest in music and its resonant but discreet place in her work. In it, the principal character masks his discomfort at a formal party by studying a landscape...
Difference and challenge in teams
Money & Business

Difference and challenge in teams

...techniques can harness creative conflict? The following two readings should give a decent impression of practical ‘dialectical approaches’: where those holding different points of view can challenge each other through reasoned argument and dialogue, out of which new, shared approaches can emerge. Figure 4 Janus, Roman god of transitions, is depicted as having two...
Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Discovering music: the blues
History & The Arts

Discovering music: the blues

...techniques that underpin the structures of blues songs. You do not need to play an instrument, to sing or have any prior musical knowledge to be able to complete this course...This free course, Discovering music: the blues, will introduce you to a musical tradition with roots in the nineteenth century but which is still relevant to making music today. You will learn about...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs