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Using OpenLearn as an OU Student
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Using OpenLearn as an OU Student

...writing, avoiding plagiarism, using online forums or revision techniques can help you get ahead with your studies. OpenLearn has a large selection of study skills material, so that you can find just what you need. If you're thinking of changing jobs, moving sectors, starting a new career, or want to develop in your existing role, OpenLearn can help with that too. Our...
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Afterword to Representing Religions: Race, Rationality, Colonialism and Anthropology
History & The Arts

Afterword to Representing Religions: Race, Rationality, Colonialism and Anthropology

...G.E. (eds) Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography, Berkeley: University of California Press. Tremlett, P.-F. (2020) Towards a New Theory of Religion and Social Change: Sovereignties and Disruptions, Bloomsbury: London. Williams, F. E. (1977) ‘The Vailala Madness’ and Other Essays. Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii. More related free resources...
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From Pakistan to Britain: Identity and Belonging
Society, Politics & Law

From Pakistan to Britain: Identity and Belonging

...we have to create or find a place where we belong. I think we shouldn’t be living somewhere we don’t belong. At the time of writing, Anila worked for Shakti Women's Aid in Edinburgh. This organisation helps BAME women, children and young people who are experiencing, or have experienced, domestic abuse from a partner, ex-partner and/or other members of their household....
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Introducing ageing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing ageing

...Write a paragraph about your own experiences of ageing so far. You could write about: whether you feel the same age as your age in years (your chronological age) how you would describe your current age how other people affect your sense of your own ageing how changes to your body make you aware of your ageing what you are looking forward to about growing older what you...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
Developing a research question in International Relations
Society, Politics & Law

Developing a research question in International Relations

...writing a good one is not easy. A well-designed question enables you to clearly define and communicate a focused area of research in a way that is manageable within the scope of a research project. Through this course, you will learn how to recognise and produce a good research question...This free course, taken from the MA in International Relations (Part 2), explores...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Exploring innovative assessment methods
Education & Development

Exploring innovative assessment methods

...write an essay at A-level is acquiring an important skill. Whilst essay writing may not be required for employment it will more than likely be required for assessments at university, should they move onto a university course. Further, the ability to communicate ideas and thoughts in writing is an important skill in employment, such as writing an email...Week 1: What is...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Beginners’ German: food and drink
Languages

Beginners’ German: food and drink

...writing and speaking skills. The content focuses on food, restaurants and eating habits. The course also gives examples of how grammar, vocabulary, cultural aspects and study skills are taught by the OU in the Beginners' German module...This free course, Beginners' German: food and drink, provides materials that support the development of listening, reading, writing and...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Professor Andrew Watson - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Professor Andrew Watson - Stories of Change

...writing reports back in 1991. It remains around 3 degrees centigrade for a doubling of carbon dioxide. That’s the best estimate but with a wide range. It could be conceivably as low as 1.5 degrees, it could be as high as, well in the fourth report they were quoting up to nearly 6 degrees centigrade, so somewhere in those levels. Now it’s quite interesting that the...
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