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Intermediate Spanish: Understanding spoken Spanish
Languages

Intermediate Spanish: Understanding spoken Spanish

...podcasts, films, music. There's plenty of choice out there. Don't focus on trying to understand everything you hear. Instead, try to enjoy the sound and flow and get comfortable with it. Get more from the Open University. Check out the links on screen now. ...Intermediate Spanish: Understanding spoken Spanish: 2 Predicting content - The video clips in this course are not...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Teaching assistants: support in action (Chinese)
Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action (Chinese)

...mathematics lesson’, in Hancock, R., Collins, J. and Stacey, M. (eds), Primary Teaching Assistants: Learners and Learning, Abingdon, Routledge/Milton Keynes, The Open University. Cremin, H., Thomas, G. and Vincett, K. (2003) ‘Learning zones: an evaluation of three models for improving learning through teacher/teaching assistant teamwork’, Support for Learning, vol....
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century
History & The Arts

Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century

...mathematical to the sensible. As groundbreaking anatomical investigation and physiological experimentation were carried out, the map of the body changed, and different parts (vessels, glands, nerves) acquired visibility and became the focus of much research. This free course is an adapted extract from the Open University course A218 Medicine and Society in Europe...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Seeing the light
Science, Maths & Technology

Seeing the light

...mathematical skills appropriate to making energy calculations about solar panels...Seeing the light: 1 Light - We will begin by watching the first part of a specially commissioned Open University/Channel 4 television programme about our homes which features The Times architecture critic Tom Dyckhoff. The programme, The Secret Life of Buildings, looks at many different...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Emotion: an introductory picture
History & The Arts

Emotion: an introductory picture

...mathematical proof, or the moral qualities of another person. Activity 5 Read the extract from James's chapter (Reading 1). Click to open William James's chapter What does James believe to be our ‘natural way of thinking’ about the emotions? What, in contrast, does he claim emotions to be? What reason does James give for supposing that his thesis is correct? Note: It...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
The family at the centre of early learning
Education & Development

The family at the centre of early learning

...mathematical concepts such as proportion, perspective and looking from different angles – concepts that are valuable frameworks for developing problem-solving skills and empathy. [Described image] Figure 2 Cerys’s photograph from the London Eye They went to a restaurant in London’s China Town, where Cerys chose noodles, like her grandparents. When the owner asked...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Forensic science and fingerprints
Health, Sports & Psychology

Forensic science and fingerprints

...mathematical formulas are used to make the comparison, matching may be accepted by critics as a science. At present the distinction between science and a highly skilled art is of academic interest, but is not likely to challenge the use of fingerprint matching in court or to undermine its usefulness. Now read Case Study 2 relating to mistaken identification of...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Making creativity and innovation happen
Money & Business

Making creativity and innovation happen

...podcast, Laurence Knell of the Open University discusses the Paradox of Choice and the way in which constraints can guide and support our creativity and innovative thinking. LAURENCE KNELL: Hi, my name is Laurence Knell. I’m an associate lecturer with The Open University Business School. Have you ever sat down for dinner in a restaurant and, despite the wide range of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs