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Making connections in end-of-life conversations: essential tips for professionals
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making connections in end-of-life conversations: essential tips for professionals

...manage these communications. Open communication supports informed consent around interventions, and the opportunity for advance planning in terms of care and personal matters, as it provides the patient with information to inform such decisions and actions. However, for people who do not wish to receive this information, or are ambivalent about open communication,...
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Video 5 mins
Blockchain in Education
Digital & Computing

Blockchain in Education

...projects and initiatives in the real-world. Learning is far more international than it used to be: key education players open campuses abroad, while students travel to different countries to improve their employability prospects. In the networked, digitally empowered world of the 21st century, education providers often do not have remit or in fact the means and capacity...
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Article 5 mins
World Archaeology
History & The Arts

World Archaeology

...introduction to archaeology and its methodologies for excavation of sites that can be more than 12000 years old. Like piecing together a jigsaw puzzle but without a picture guide, archaeologists can establish how cities and civilisations developed, why humans started farming, and how empires formed and collapsed. This material forms part of The Open University course A251...
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Audio 1 hr 6 mins
Noise Pollution
Science, Maths & Technology

Noise Pollution

...introduction to this album. Noise Levels A fun, easy introduction to the scale of noise pollution and what kind of exposure leaves the ear irreparably damaged Driving Out Noise Car manufacturer Lexus insulate their trademark luxury cars, but what is the impact of 'white noise' on people living near motorways. Tuning Car Engines Experts from the Motor Industry Research...
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Audio 27 mins
Auftakt: intermediate German
Languages

Auftakt: intermediate German

...introduction to different aspects of everyday life in German speaking countries. The tracks contain recordings of German and Austrian native speakers and have been taken from the audio-visual materials for the Open University module L130 Auftakt, intermediate German... Introduction Three German cities City Tour Graz A tour of Graz Das Schlupfhaus Emergency shelter for...
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Video 55 mins
Understanding your customers
Money & Business

Understanding your customers

...Introduction to Business Management. If you do embark on a course of study, you will be supported throughout by a tutor. You'll also have access to the module website, which includes modules materials, audio and video content, an assessment guide, and online tutorials and forums. B206 Understanding customers starts once a year in October, so if you are interested, act...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Number theory
Science, Maths & Technology

Number theory

...introduction to Number Theory. Section 1 provides a brief introduction to the kinds of problem that arise in Number Theory. Section 2 reviews and provides a more formal approach to a powerful method of proof, mathematical induction. Section 3 introduces and makes precise the key notion of divisibility. The Division Algorithm, concerning the division of one integer by...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
How to find invisible black holes
Science, Maths & Technology

How to find invisible black holes

...project. In citizen science projects, we ask volunteers – you! – for help figuring out things that computers can’t solve for us! Black Hole Hunters is the Open University’s second citizen science project using data from the SuperWASP All-Sky Survey. The first of these projects was SuperWASP Variable Stars, which is searching for regular, repeating changes in the...
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