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Intermediate French: Holiday plans
Languages

Intermediate French: Holiday plans

...Open University course L120 Ouverture: intermediate French. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 1 study in French...Intermediate French: Holiday plans: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand spoken descriptions of holiday resorts understand people talking about where and when they take their holidays and why write an...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Abbie Barnes - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Abbie Barnes - Earth in Vision

...Open Water Diver, personal trainer and fitness instructor, and bushcraft leader. Transcript Earth in Vision Project My name is Abbie Barnes, I’m a semi-professional filmmaker based in the Southwest of England and I make films based on wildlife, conservation, adventure, pretty much anything that goes that’s to do with the outdoors. What got me interested in the natural...
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Video 30 mins
‘Where do you really come from?’ How this enquiry can add insult to injury
Education & Development

‘Where do you really come from?’ How this enquiry can add insult to injury

...Open University's Social Sciences courses. What makes asking people from Black and minority ethnic communities about their origin so offensive? In recent years this basic expression of interest seems to have been behind a host of conflict, upset and tumultuous argument. Some say the question is simply a harmless expression of curiosity, a basic demonstration of interest...
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Article 5 mins
Animals at the extremes: polar biology
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: polar biology

...Open University Figure 2 (a) The arctic fox; (b) The subspecies of reindeer Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus Only two species of terrestrial mammal occur naturally throughout the year on Svalbard (although a few others have been introduced by humans during the past century). Figure 2a shows the arctic fox (Alopex lagopus), which also occurs throughout the Arctic, and in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Seeing institutions in different ways
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing institutions in different ways

...Open University course TU872 Institutional development: Conflicts, values and meanings...Seeing institutions in different ways: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand different ways of thinking about institutions and institutional development appreciate that institutions in processes of development create pictures of...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Dallas Campbell meets Frank Drake
Science, Maths & Technology

Dallas Campbell meets Frank Drake

...sources of joy are with other intelligent creatures. And we will learn perhaps what doesn’t work. What to avoid. Maybe colonising space is a bad thing. We will find out and it will save us the trouble of learning a lesson through our own, through some very difficult and damaging enterprise. Fade to black and fade up again Dallas Campbell: Now obviously we are doing the...
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Video 30 mins
What is poetry?
History & The Arts

What is poetry?

...opens nor closes on the view beneath: a desert of wrinkles that the sea composes then wipes out, to show her sway over days, I glance sideways as she rises in her ruffled swimsuit, tries to be a crest that the lip doesn’t need, but it’s higher than her hair: she arcs with its roll and is contained for a moment, like Longley’s otter and the Mayo swell, is borne...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Psychological research, obedience and ethics
Society, Politics & Law

Psychological research, obedience and ethics

...Open University course DE100 Investigating psychology 1...Psychological research, obedience and ethics: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: describe the research of Stanley Milgram on obedience recognise the main ethics principles governing psychological research understand the ethics issues concerning research involving non-human...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs