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Listening for form in popular music
History & The Arts

Listening for form in popular music

...based on musical material from other parts of a song. In ‘Midnight Special’, interludes and introduction alike are textless versions of the chorus. For this reason, the designation ‘based on chorus’ has been incorporated at several points in Table 7. You can listen to your recording of the song again to confirm the relationship between the interlude and the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
World-Changing Women: Hildegard of Bingen
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Hildegard of Bingen

...based upon her visions. Her surviving works also include more than a hundred letters to emperors and popes, bishops, nuns, and nobility, which reflect her single-mindedness, independent spirit, and refusal to be intimidated by power or authority. Hildegard travelled throughout southern Germany and into Switzerland and as far as Paris, preaching and evangelising. She died...
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Article 5 mins
Wendy Gregory On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Society, Politics & Law

Wendy Gregory On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...based in Christchurch. In 2011, Wendy returned with her family to the UK. “Nowadays I work as a volunteer gardener, coordinating other volunteers, have been called “a raving environmentalist” because I advocated for the wildlife in two cemetery projects where the groups were removing natural habitats in order to “clean up” those sites, and I try to help others...
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Audio 15 mins
Connecting unseen dots
Education & Development

Connecting unseen dots

...based on research being undertaken around interdisciplinarity in Welsh schools (Mathew) and ongoing research around STEAM education and Transdisciplinarity, with a particular emphasis on the role of the Arts (Carolyn). During the session we explored definitions of interdisciplinarity as activities which are a little like a stew – you can still identify some of the...
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Video 25 mins
Appreciative Inquiry
Education & Development

Appreciative Inquiry

...based approach...This session drew from the OpenLearn course, An Appreciative Approach to Inquiry. In the session, we explored what we mean by Appreciative Inquiry, focusing particularly on the generative possibilities of starting from a positive core instead of problem-focused inquiries. We explored how a different language of inquiry, involving immersing, imagining,...
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Video 15 mins
Stories from our Black students
Money & Business

Stories from our Black students

...based on the students’ lived experience. Debra's student experience Transcript. I’m a single mum and I’m studying because I want to give my son a better life. I want to create a future where I can provide for him in ways I never had. Andrea's student experience Transcript. It felt like my dream was slipping away. Then I found the OU Black Scholarship. I applied, but...
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Audio 15 mins
An introduction to data and information in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to data and information in health and social care

...de la Serre, a French army captain, visited the school and described his system of 12 raised dots representing sounds which could be combined to form words. Braille experimented with Barbier’s system and, by the time he was 20, he had simplified it so that each letter of the alphabet could be represented by six raised dots arranged in three rows. The dots are precisely...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing
Money & Business

Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing

...based on its assets (the things that it owns, like savings and property) and liabilities (the things that it owes, such as a mortgage and other debts). These tools can help you with decisions about housing, both in your study of this course and your own personal finances. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course DB125 You and your...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs