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What do we need to know about our memory?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What do we need to know about our memory?

...techniques: Spot different categories of objects and switch between categories (e.g. an animal, then a flower, then an animal again). This psychological flexibility is an important part of executive functioning. Notice 5 items and try different strategies to remember them over the course of a walk. Use a mnemonic which is a tool that helps us remember certain facts or...
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Article 15 mins
Bayesian statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

Bayesian statistics

...techniques and definitions taught in earlier books in M249 are present in the extract without explanation. Mathematical/statistical content at the Open University is usually provided to students in printed books, with PDFs of the same online. This format ensures that mathematical notation is presented accurately and clearly. The PDF of this extract thus shows the content...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
What are your chances during a zombie apocalypse?
Digital & Computing

What are your chances during a zombie apocalypse?

...techniques (the patterns, causes, and effects of health and disease conditions in defined populations) to model a zombie outbreak. Their result is that we're all doomed in the event on a zombie outbreak, as dead people (including dead zombies) won't stay dead and will rise to eat more brains. Our only hope is to rapidly and overwhelmingly eradicate any zombie outbreak as...
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Article 5 mins
A mentoring mindset (Meddylfryd mentora)
Education & Development

A mentoring mindset (Meddylfryd mentora)

...techniques can support early career teachers in the initial teacher education and newly qualified phases. Activity planner Activity Learning actions Time Activity 1 Mentoring or coaching? Understanding the difference between mentoring and coaching. 10 mins Activity 2 A coaching dialogue Looking at and rephrasing questions. 2 x 15 mins Activity 3 Developing listening...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Vanessa Berlowitz - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Vanessa Berlowitz - Earth in Vision

...techniques that engage huge international audiences together with compelling, relevant information about the real condition and state of our planet? And this for me is now actually as I enter my second decade of filmmaking, I think, ‘This has got to be the next challenge, I’ve done the beauty material and now it’s about how can I combine that?’ But it is a...
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Video 30 mins
Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd
History & The Arts

Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd

...techniques that Hardy uses to achieve an illusion of real people and their relationships in a real world. Through analysing narrative you will think about who the narrator is, and the importance of the narrative point of view in telling the story, as well as understanding how characterisation, the use of dialogue, time and locations work within the novel...This free...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Who are we? A project about art, migration, politics and identity
History & The Arts

Who are we? A project about art, migration, politics and identity

...techniques within interviews and focus groups. The research uses policy statements, images, news articles and videos which work as stimulus materials to bring citizens into dialogue with the latest policy and discursive governance. These materials relate to the actions of national and supra-national government institutions such as the European Commission. Performance...
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Article 15 mins
Introduction to differential equations
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to differential equations

...techniques and definitions taught in earlier units in MST125 are present in the extract without explanation, therefore a fluency with algebra and basic calculus is essential for this extract. Mathematical/statistical content at the Open University is usually provided to students in printed books, with PDFs of the same online. This format ensures that mathematical notation...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs