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The secret history of teenage bedrooms
Education & Development

The secret history of teenage bedrooms

...resources that they have available to them to say this is me, this is my corner of the room, this is my space sort of within the house. It’s one of the first spaces in terms of what – of who people – who young people can actually let into the room, one of the first spaces that they can regulate… Laurie Taylor: Some people – I read about once – that people even...
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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...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
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...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
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....
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
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...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 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...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Getting started on classical Latin
History & The Arts

Getting started on classical Latin

...resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses. Course image: The Roman poet Virgil depicted in a fifth century CE manuscript (the Vergilius Romanus) of his poetical works, the Eclogues. Biblioteca Apostolica, Vatican City. Photo: © The Art Archive/Alamy. Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
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...
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