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Secondary learning
Education & Development

Secondary learning

...open to examining your views and to considering the evidence behind new developments. Section 1 considers the nature of knowledge. Section 2 focuses on learning and some of the main theories of learning. Section 3 considers the implications of these ideas for teaching and pedagogy. This course is generic and is designed for people who are learning to be a teacher, are in...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change

...Open University Transcript Stories of Change Project Professor Lord Nicholas Stern interview Key RH: = Roger Harrabin interviewer NS: = Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, Economist, and Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the LSE, participant RH: Nick Stern, Lord Stern, thank you very much for agreeing to be interviewed for the OU...
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Social problems: Who makes them?
Society, Politics & Law

Social problems: Who makes them?

...open the issue of how to interpret or explain those ‘facts’. An alternative starting point is to examine how poverty is socially constructed as a problem – to scrutinise ‘what everybody knows’, alongside public, political and policy definitions of the problem and to disentangle the constructions that we find. This means that the practice of social science...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Aquatic mammals
Nature & Environment

Aquatic mammals

...opened up new habitats and new sources of food that the mammals were quick to exploit. Question 1 Timing: Allow about 5 minutes Using your general knowledge of mammals, try describing up to three biological features that mammals commonly possess. Discussion Mammals are distinguished by: the production of milk the possession of hair or similar structures, such as bristles...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Water for life
Nature & Environment

Water for life

...sources of water is precipitation. At this point, you will consider the size of the drops of water that make up clouds or rain (Figure 5). [Figure 5] Figure 5 A water droplet The typical distance across a water droplet in a cloud is one hundred-thousandth of a metre, that is, m or 0.000 01m. This corresponds to mm or 0.01 mm, which is very small. Imagine dividing the gap...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Nine days' wonder in York
History & The Arts

Nine days' wonder in York

...openings to the sky, that let in the colored evening light. You could not get lost in it, for it was so free of all such architectural undergrowth as cumbers the perspectives of some cathedrals; besides, the afternoon of our visit there were so many other Americans that you could easily have asked your way in your own dialect. We loitered over its lengths and breadths,...
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From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language
Health, Sports & Psychology

From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language

...Open University course : SDK228 The science of the mind: investigating mental health...From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: recognise definitions and applications of key terms relating to mental health understand and apply basic grammatical terminology describe briefly the different...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Why is Mongolia a good place to die?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is Mongolia a good place to die?

...source of his torment, a bloated, fluid-filled abdomen, a typical symptom of late-stage liver cancer. The comforting evidence of family surrounds him. At one end of his bed there is a large wooden board propped up on a table and tied to one of the ger’s rafters. It’s covered with colour photos of big groups of adults and children. To the side there’s a small altar...
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