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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...
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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...
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Citational politics
Education & Development

Citational politics

...Code of Practice offers guidance on Authorship, Acknowledgement and Attribution. It defines authorship as being directly involved in the creation of a work (Open University, Research Code of Practice, p. 18) by: Being solely responsible for, or making a significant contribution to, the conception/design of the project, or the collection, analysis and/or interpretation of...
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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...
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10 incredible people whose stories you'll find on OpenLearn
History & The Arts

10 incredible people whose stories you'll find on OpenLearn

...code breaker, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist. He is widely considered to be the father of computer science and artificial intelligence. During the Second World War, Turing worked at the home of the code breakers, Bletchley Park. He devised many techniques for solving Nazi Germany's ciphers and produced an electromechanical machine that...
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Five Equity, Trust and Land Law Cases You Should Know
Society, Politics & Law

Five Equity, Trust and Land Law Cases You Should Know

...in this case… Transcript McGovern v Attorney-General Can an organisation that undertakes a political purpose be considered a charity? The answer is not so simple… Transcript Street v Mountford If you occupy a property how do you know whether you have a tenancy (a lease) or only a licence? Here’s an introduction to the basic elements of a lease… Transcript...
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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...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
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...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs