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The database development life cycle
Science, Maths & Technology

The database development life cycle

...Open University summary database card: Each course which is available for study is given a course code, a title and a value for credit points – either a 30-point course or a 60-point course. A course may have a quota – the maximum number of students that can be enrolled on the course in any one year; each quota is reviewed regularly and the last date of review is...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Dawn Parsonage-Kent - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dawn Parsonage-Kent - Earth in Vision

...source. One is essentially things like Getty, where it’s rights managed, you have to say how many times you’re going to use it and thus the costs escalate and are trickier to guess how much they’re going to be beforehand. Then there’s things like Shutterstock, there’s others, but it’s very clear how much that clip is going to cost you, you can see it,...
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Video 30 mins
Why are young men worldwide experiencing mental health crises?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why are young men worldwide experiencing mental health crises?

...sources, but according to the Korea Joongang Daily there have been allegations of bias toward particular universities.) It’s more than just job prospects that the young of the nation are working towards. “If you’re a good student, you’re respected by your teachers, parents and your friends. You’re very popular. Everybody wants to date you.” The pressure to...
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Article 15 mins
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
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
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