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Kinematics of fluids
Science, Maths & Technology

Kinematics of fluids

...study of this free OpenLearn course, Kinematics of fluids, should enhance your skills in communicating mathematical ideas clearly and succinctly, expressing problems in mathematical language and interpreting mathematical results in real-world terms. You should now be able to: derive the pathlines and the streamlines in Cartesian and polar form from a velocity field derive...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
The OU Welcomes Carers
Health, Sports & Psychology

The OU Welcomes Carers

...study illustrates what it can be like to be a carer: ‘You know, it’s just that constant sort of presence that I have to be. A lot of encouraging her to eat, encouraging her to wash and do self-care, all round that kind of thing’. Kubiak et al, 2021 This carer’s account describes how caring can be difficult to plan around and disruptive of everyday life (Larkin et...
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Article 5 mins
52 things you never knew about OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

52 things you never knew about OpenLearn

...skills employers increasingly value. Studying making you stressed? We can help you get ‘zen’ in our article, Five Reasons Why You should Care About Mindfulness, and a video on student mental health (see below). Transcripts SYNDICATION AND OTHER SITES We have our sister site OpenLearn Create, which is more international with 48% of users from India and another large...
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The emergence of breaking as an Olympic sport
Health, Sports & Psychology

The emergence of breaking as an Olympic sport

...skills. Such suggestions have been made before when skateboarding, BMX and snowboarding were first included in the Olympic programme. The inclusion of breaking is no doubt related to the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) expressed desire to broaden the Olympic audience by attracting younger spectators and viewers to the games. The staging of the breaking...
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Video 5 mins
Teaching secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Teaching secondary modern foreign languages

...skills not only communication skills and associated strategies but also employability skills and cultural awareness. It also develops their literacy in their own mother tongue, to motivate students to learn languages that’s the challenge. For that MFL teachers need to be enthusiastic about learning, passionate about teaching languages and aware of the main issues in...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Think you’re better at driving than most? How psychological biases are keeping our roads unsafe
Health, Sports & Psychology

Think you’re better at driving than most? How psychological biases are keeping our roads unsafe

...skill. And each time a driver breaks the law without any apparent consequence, they confirm their view that they are above average and that laws can be ‘safely’ broken. Researchers call people’s tendency to normalise dangerous driving practices at a societal level motonormativity. This is an unconscious bias where people are more accepting of the risks associated...
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From dreams to reality: becoming a nurse and educator
Health, Sports & Psychology

From dreams to reality: becoming a nurse and educator

...studying, housework and being a mum. Childhood I was talking to my mum about my childhood, and discussing how busy our lives were. Like me, she was a single mum who was working full-time and studying. She explained how every teacher described me as being ‘a lovely, kind and well-behaved little girl’ but how I was ‘not an academic’. School was a massive challenge,...
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Dynamics
Science, Maths & Technology

Dynamics

...study each of the sections; the whole extract should take about 16 hours to study. The extract is a small part (around 5%) of a large course that is studied over eight months, and so can give only an approximate indication of the level and content of the full course. This extract is one of the core mechanics units from MST210 in which we look at moving objects, i.e....
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs