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Iceland: ridge, plume and basalt
Science, Maths & Technology

Iceland: ridge, plume and basalt

...introduction to this album. Volcanism in the western riftzone Basalt, Icelands basic building block of the western rift zone Tectonic forces Evidence of Icelands crustal stretching. Volcanism in the eastern riftzone Examining Icelands 1480AD fissure eruption. New land on the Island of Vestmannaeyjar Why is new land being created so far away from the spreading ridge? Why...
Introducing Health Sciences: Breast Screening
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing Health Sciences: Breast Screening

...study approach... Introducing Health Sciences: Breast Screening A short introduction to this album Having a mammogram Find out exactly what happens when women have a mammogram. Follow up clinic Follow one woman's experience when a mammogram does not give clear results. Analysing Mammograms Step inside the pathology lab, where breast cells are being screened for cancer....
Inuit Throat Singing
History & The Arts

Inuit Throat Singing

...A short introduction to this album. Tanya Tagaq – Throat Singing The background to throat singing and an example song – husky slipping on ice Learning throat singing How Culture within Singing What Tanya's singing means to her, and how her culture is encapsulated within it. The sounds of throat singing Exploring the sounds in throat singing, and how they are made....
What are Mintzberg’s five components of an organisation? The one-minute guide
Money & Business

What are Mintzberg’s five components of an organisation? The one-minute guide

...Management degrees a The Open University [Some people doing vaguely business-related things] These are clearly stock image people. What would it take to make them an organisation? Henry Mintzberg, writing in The Structure of Organizations, came up with this diagram as a way of explaining what makes an organisation: [Mintzberg’s five components of organisation] What is...
Making Social Worlds
Society, Politics & Law

Making Social Worlds

...introduction to this album. South African passbooks Obligatory passbooks governed life in South Africa under Apartheid. Classifying races How races were classified after the introduction of the 1950 Population Registration Act. Held hostage to a passbook The impact of passbooks on the community. Humiliation of the red stamp The 'Vula-Vala' check-up that was undergone to...
Charles Darwin - the man and the scientist
Science, Maths & Technology

Charles Darwin - the man and the scientist

...introduction to this album. Darwin's great great granddaughter The poet Ruth Padel talks about her great great grandfather, Charles Darwin, and how she has responded to his life and work in her poetry. Darwin's childhood Ruth Padel and Sheila Ochugboju reflect on Darwin's childhood, and Ruth reads her poems "The Chapel School", The year my mother died", "The miser"....
Modelling and estimation
Science, Maths & Technology

Modelling and estimation

...Introduction - Please note: a Statement of Participation is not issued for this course. Making sense of data, and hence obtaining useful and well-founded answers to important questions is the major goal of statistics. This free OpenLearn course, Modelling and estimation, is an extract from the Open University course M248 Analysing data, a second level course that aims to...
Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Exploring educational leadership
Education & Development

Exploring educational leadership

...management. You will explore: the relationships between management and leadership; the scope of the field; different world views that underpin educational leadership research and practice; and some key concepts such as agency, power and authority and context. You will consider some differences between concepts, models and theories and be introduced to some questions that...