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How can I cope with exam stress?
Education & Development

How can I cope with exam stress?

...simple and very practical step is to develop a plan of action by preparing well and organising your time and workloads. This will help address that “out-of-control feeling”. A second step is to begin to understand the physiological responses going on in your body and try to adjust them. As its name suggests, the automatic nervous system is not under your direct...
Andante: beginners' Italian
Languages

Andante: beginners' Italian

...simple Italian, including expressions for greetings, ordering food and drinks, booking into a hotel and talking about a recent holiday. The tracks contain sample recordings with suggestions for how to pronounce Italian sounds, along with some activities to help improve your listening and speaking skills. This material forms part of The Open University course L195 Andante:...
An introduction to software development
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to software development

...simple workflow for interacting with the published literature on software development...An introduction to software development: 1 Software development as engineering - G. F. C. Rogers, writing in the early 1980s, defined engineering as ‘the practice of organising the design and construction of any artifice which transforms the physical world around us to meet some...
What did Plato believe about the human soul? The one minute guide
History & The Arts

What did Plato believe about the human soul? The one minute guide

...simple guide...Find out more about The Open University's Classical Studies and qualifications [Plato compared the soul to a person driving a chariot pulled by two flying horses] [One horse is beautiful and noble; it wants to soar into heaven. This horse is our finer spirit.] [The other horse is ugly and bad. This horse represents our base nature, driven by passions and...
Free Activity Cards
Education & Development

Free Activity Cards

...simple, fun tasks to share with your children were produced to accompany the 2004 series. We are pleased to be able to offer them to you as a set of free downloads... Play Families Float or Sink? Knickerbockerglory [PDF File] Download Play Families card (130 KB) [PDF File] Download Float or Sink? card (130 KB) [PDF File] Download Knickerbockerglory card (109 KB) What's In...
What is Talk Factory?
Education & Development

What is Talk Factory?

...simple online tool and app designed to support teachers and students during group discussion. ...Talk Factory is an online tool and app which supports learning by helping teachers and their students to understand how to engage in productive argumentation in primary and secondary school. It helps to develop an inclusive classroom where ideas can be explored in a...
Kinematics of fluids
Science, Maths & Technology

Kinematics of fluids

...simple two-dimensional flow types (the uniform flow, source, doublet and vortex), and suitable combinations of these are used to model more complicated flows. Section 4 introduces the idea of differentiation following the motion, and Euler’s equation is developed in Section 5...This free course examines the basic kinematics of two-dimensional fluid flows. Section 1...
Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
What is a scientific model?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is a scientific model?

...code with. So you can put the system of simple equations or perhaps quite complex equations into a computer programme and you can then set the programme to go to watch the interplay of the various factors that you’ve teased out as being important. So, for example, if you were trying to understand how the planets in the solar system move, then you would need to put in a...