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Top tips for exam revision and preparation
Education & Development

Top tips for exam revision and preparation

How can you best prepare for an exam? This short animation gives you some top revision tips...Find out more about The Open University's BA/BSc (Honours) Open degree. Transcript Watch the other animations in this series
Geology toolkit: what rock is that?
Science, Maths & Technology

Geology toolkit: what rock is that?

You can use our interactive to help you identify an actual rock, or, if you don't have a sample, you can use one of our virtual rocks...Find out more about The Open University's Geology courses and qualifications
How can knowing how DNA repairs itself help defeat cancer?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can knowing how DNA repairs itself help defeat cancer?

...out of control and form tumours. Over the years, CRUK scientists and others around the world have unpicked the biological ‘toolkits’ our cells use to repair their damaged DNA. And it turns out that rather than being a strength, problems with DNA repair can be a critical weakness in cancer cells, leading to an exciting new approach for tackling the disease. Earlier...
Sleep: A doctor's advice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sleep: A doctor's advice

...out of your sleep, I find that Sleep Hygiene can be used to improve the quality of your sleep. Sleep Hygiene asks you to think about a number of factors that you have control over, in order to get the best out of your sleep. Much of it is about habit and lifestyle, and it can take around six weeks to show the full benefit, but you should see improvement in your sleep...
Stay in control and hide the fear: The psychology of skydivers and climbers
Health, Sports & Psychology

Stay in control and hide the fear: The psychology of skydivers and climbers

...out of a plane? James Hardie-Bick: Well I think fears and concerns are definitely the right words to describe it. After the training, which was four days of training and you’re shown videos of what can go wrong if you climb out of the plane in the wrong way or if your lines get tangled, I learnt that your leg could get caught up in the lines, your arm could get caught...
53 things you never knew about OpenLearn
Education & Development

53 things you never knew about OpenLearn

...out content for free? The queen told us to! It’s written in our Royal Charter ‘Advancement and dissemination of learning and knowledge… to promote the general wellbeing of the community’. 13.6 million people visited our website last year – that’s more than the number of people who visited the UK’s most popular tourist attraction, The British Museum. A little...
Measure the Pulfrich Effect
Science, Maths & Technology

Measure the Pulfrich Effect

...out of date. Our slightly slower visual response in poor lighting is recognised in the game of cricket, where one sometimes hears ‘bad light stopped play’. In failing light conditions a fastmoving cricket ball could hit a player, while he believed it still to be a little way off. [Figure Two] Figure 2 A moving object, viewed with one eye brighter than the other,...
Industrial Revolution: changing landscapes
History & The Arts

Industrial Revolution: changing landscapes

Explore the effects of the Industrial Revolution an agrarian nation slowly became a mechanised one...Take it further Find out What The Industrial Revolution Did For Us Explore industrial heritage near you Discover more about studying history with the Open University