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Systems diagramming
Digital & Computing

Systems diagramming

...opens their eyes to alternative views. Diagrams are, like words, intensely personal ways of sharing information and seeing someone else's ideas in diagrammatic form can give a new view of what they are trying to communicate. Diagrams can also suggest new and unexpected relationships between ideas about a situation and new and unexpected ways of moving forward in a...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Croeso: Beginners' Welsh
Languages

Croeso: Beginners' Welsh

...Open University course LG001 Discovering Wales and Welsh. Tell us what you think! We’d love to hear from you to help us improve our free learning offering through OpenLearn by filling out this short survey...Croeso: beginners' Welsh: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: greet people and give an introduction in Welsh understand the...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
How to compare income across countries
Science, Maths & Technology

How to compare income across countries

...source of the data. In fact, Hans’ Gapminder Foundation website is one such source. If you search the Gapminder data store http://www.gapminder.org/data/ for gdp ppp you should see an indicator listed in the search results called Income per person (GDP/capita, PPP$ inflation-adjusted) (once again, this is the annualincome rather than the daily income value that Hans...
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Video 45 mins
Vanessa Berlowitz - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Vanessa Berlowitz - Earth in Vision

...open to us now, because in the past we were so reliant on what the broadcaster would commission, but now there are other avenues. But I still feel that we ought to be trying to get those stories into the main broadcast, because that’s still what reaches the maximum number of people, and we’re in the middle of a sixth extinction; biodiversity is at an absolutely...
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Video 30 mins
For some people, staying awake might help fight depression
Health, Sports & Psychology

For some people, staying awake might help fight depression

...open the wrinkled, grey-tinged skin around her eyes. “Occhi aperti,” she says. Eyes open. This is the second night in three that Angelina has been deliberately deprived of sleep. For a person with bipolar disorder who has spent the past two years in a deep and crippling depression, it may sound like the last thing she needs, but Angelina – and the doctors treating...
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Article 15 mins
Grief and COVID-19: Mourning what we know, who we miss and the way we say goodbye
Health, Sports & Psychology

Grief and COVID-19: Mourning what we know, who we miss and the way we say goodbye

...sources of stress (Rajkumar, 2020). Ongoing difficulties in dealing with residents, who are often confused and not able to understand the changed circumstances and restricted visits, are shouldered by care workers (Rajhan et al.2020). In addition, in recent months communication with residents’ families who are required to socially distance from an elderly family member...
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Article 20 mins
Brexit and Scotland’s fishing communities
Nature & Environment

Brexit and Scotland’s fishing communities

...Sources, references and links BBC News Online, ‘Brexit deal: Nicola Sturgeon says, 'major promises' broken on fishing’, December 24, 2020: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-55436677 Caitlin Hutchison, ‘Brexit: Nicola Sturgeon accuses UK Government of 'selling out' Scottish fishing’, The Herald, December 26, 2020:
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Article 5 mins
Intermediate Italian: describing people
Languages

Intermediate Italian: describing people

...Open University course L150 Intermediate Italian: Vivace. An activity in this course uses an audio-recording tool. This may not work correctly in the Safari browser on Apple Mac computers. Please try another browser such as Google Chrome to run this...Intermediate Italian: describing people: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: describe...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs