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Open door to success
Education & Development

Open door to success

...OpenLearn image] Free learning for everyone Find out how the partnership started, how the OpenLearn/DWP platform was created, and the benefits of badged courses for jobseekers. Study our free maths and English courses Expert advice on how to write your CV Develop your key skills Try positive development Take your first steps into cyber security Return to formal education...
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Are movies really getting longer?
History & The Arts

Are movies really getting longer?

...creative individuals would eventually come to rely on stable routines. More recent works highlight just how much depend on rationalization in government, at work, and in pop culture. With new tools in data analysis, we can see rationalization at work. Integrative Biology professor Claus Wilke (@ClausWilke) recently looked at a database of movies from IMDB since 1920. His...
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Textiles in Ghana
History & The Arts

Textiles in Ghana

...creative processes behind the textiles they make, and reveal how traditional designs remain relevant. This material is taken from The Open University Course A216 Art and its histories... Textiles in Ghana A short introduction to this album. Ghana: Introduction to Kente weaving A short history of the tradition of the Kente weavers in the Ashanti region of Ghana. Nana...
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Introducing the environment: Ecology and ecosystems
Nature & Environment

Introducing the environment: Ecology and ecosystems

...writing to use words in a precise and careful way. So it is important to be able to recognise and understand important terms when you come across them. Note any terms in the definition that you feel are especially important to its meaning. Discussion I noted four terms that seemed to be particularly important: ‘scientific’, ‘organisms’, ‘interrelationships’...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Approaching poetry
History & The Arts

Approaching poetry

...writing, music, painting that we are interested in, and why they produced it. But it may also mean understanding why one particular form was chosen rather than another: why, for example, did the poet choose to write a sonnet rather than an ode, a ballad, or a villanelle? To appreciate the appropriateness of one form, we need to be aware of a range of options available to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course
Languages

Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course

...write r-e-n, ren and you will see the different rens that come depending on what word you want. But we want person, so we click on number 1, or you just type number 1 in your computer, and that will turn into rén. If you want to type number 1 is yī, you just type y-i, and the different characters will come up. And you note this is number 1, so you click on that, and...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
What do tests tell us?
Education & Development

What do tests tell us?

...creativity? team work? motivation? ethical behaviour? citizenship? responsibility? Ironically, while the UK is looking eastwards, China is looking to the west – and turning to British-style education because Chinese parents find it more creative. Part 2, to be posted after Episode 3 of the series is shown, looks in detail at the results of the tests which were taken by...
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Racial inequities in health: The impact of COVID-19 in Wales and beyond
Health, Sports & Psychology

Racial inequities in health: The impact of COVID-19 in Wales and beyond

...creative and artful resistance to marginalisation. It exploits the creative potential of smartphone tools for digital ethnographic research. Migrants share pandemic experiences in poems, songs, music, photos, short videos, written testimonies, diaries, artworks and blogs. Learn more with OpenLearn [Open Talks from The Open University in Wales] Open Talks is a video series...
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