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About Earth In Vision
Nature & Environment

About Earth In Vision

...history with broadcasting written into the script. To this end, we have made three ebooks which draw directly on our sample of fifty hours of BBC programmes. The ebooks will be free to download, and will link to a website holding a sample of resources and archive content for free public use. Along with the programmes themselves we have been working in the BBC’s paper...
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How does nature tell the time?
Nature & Environment

How does nature tell the time?

...history. My lifetime probably won’t last beyond 100 years if I’m lucky. But did you know that something we see nearly every day will far out live us. Not only that but it will see numerous of generations live and die - the tree. [Cathy and tree] Trees have been growing on earth since before the human population arrived. This tree is 400 years old, which means that it...
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Vanessa Berlowitz - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Vanessa Berlowitz - Earth in Vision

...History Unit 24 years ago and went on to make over 20 award-winning films for 5 highly internationally acclaimed global landmark series – Planet Earth, Frozen Planet, Life of Mammals, Land of the Tiger and the Human Animal – as well as for major long-running strands and series such as The Natural World, Wildlife on One, Animal Peopleand Postcards from the Country....
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The Rise of Museums
History & The Arts

The Rise of Museums

...history, of civilisation have become emblematic of modernity and rational knowledge, their majestic architecture, part cathedral, part stately home, and their neat displays of objects organised along taxonomic and/or evolutionary principles. When did the idea arise that museums and their exhibitions could be viewed as technologies themselves for self-improvement and a...
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Getting started with Chinese business culture essentials
Languages

Getting started with Chinese business culture essentials

...family and how that translates in business settings appreciate the importance of speaking a little Chinese say some greetings in Chinese. This OpenLearn taster course is an adapted extract from the Open University short course LG002 Chinese business culture essentials...Getting started with Chinese business culture essentials: 1 What is culture? - What do you think of...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Is my child being exploited? How to spot the signs
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is my child being exploited? How to spot the signs

...families. The government is currently exploring amendments to existing law to create a shared understanding, which will support a clearer response to this problem. This change in the law will treat the people perpetrating the exploitation as criminals and the children and young people as victims. At the moment this isn’t always so, partly because children in this...
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Week 1 Civilisations: The debate
History & The Arts

Week 1 Civilisations: The debate

...History and academic consultant on Civilisations, responds to the first episode and starts up our discussion hub...[Dame de Brassempouy (BBC USE)] Dame de Brassempouy c. 23000 - 20000 BC Welcome to the first post-viewing discussion of Civilisations. I was one of the OU's academic consultants on the series and for close to two years now we have been watching this hugely...
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Chinese education: How do things work?
Society, Politics & Law

Chinese education: How do things work?

...families - place their hopes in the educational success of their single offspring. The children are aware (perhaps too aware) of the responsibility on their shoulders and the importance placed on their educational achievements. Almost forty years after the founding of the People’s Republic a policy of reform was adopted opening China to the outside world, and with it,...
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