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Brighton Pavilion
History & The Arts

Brighton Pavilion

...print, British Museum, London. Photo: by courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum mezzoblue / Dave Shea: Flickr Don't miss out: If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University - www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...
Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
An introduction to interaction design
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to interaction design

...resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...An introduction to interaction design: Introduction - Interactive products are the stuff of everyday life for many people, from apps, phones and business systems to wearables, the Web and the Internet of Things. But how can interactions be designed to best meet their...
Looking at, describing and identifying objects
History & The Arts

Looking at, describing and identifying objects

...Open University course A105 Voices, texts and material culture...Looking at, describing and identifying objects: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate skills of observation and description of objects interpret objects and work towards writing object life cycles understand artefact databases...Looking at, describing and...
Exploring languages and cultures
Languages

Exploring languages and cultures

...overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity. Don't miss out If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses....
Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears
Health, Sports & Psychology

The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears

...openness and transparency about who funds what research is deemed essential so that reviewers can take this into account when assessing whether a paper is suitably objective. Events in the MMR debate took an important turn on 22 February 2004 when the Sunday Times reported that Wakefield had secured £55 000 from the Legal Aid Board in 1996, two months before the study...
How do you become British Prime Minister?
Society, Politics & Law

How do you become British Prime Minister?

...Open University's Politics courses and qualifications. Transcript Britain, like France, is a unitary state, but is a parliamentary democracy, not a semi-presidential system. British voters thus do not directly elect the government or the head of the government, the Prime Minister. And the head of state, the Monarch, is hereditary, apolitical, and not subject to election...
Oliver Sacks: "Romantic, in the sense of the romantic poets"
Health, Sports & Psychology

Oliver Sacks: "Romantic, in the sense of the romantic poets"

...opened up neurology to the everyday world. Despite Sacks’s popularity now, he had a slow start, with his first book Migrainenot raising much interest either with his medical colleagues or the reading public. Not least, perhaps, because compared to his later works, it struggled to throw off some of the technical writing habits of academic medicine. It wasn’t until his...
Has Jeremy Corbyn changed Prime Ministers Questions for the better?
Society, Politics & Law

Has Jeremy Corbyn changed Prime Ministers Questions for the better?

...open an opportunity for the PM to launch an attack. Corbyn’s six questions all fell into the first category. And as he announced at the start of the session, they had all been crowd-sourced from citizens – Maria, Stephen, Paul, Claire, Gail and Angela, to be precise. This strategy had been mooted within hours of Corbyn’s election, his team briefing that his approach...