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National Engineering Day
Science, Maths & Technology

National Engineering Day

...put together some fantastic free resources of the topic of engineering...You can read more about how The Open University is marking National Engineering Day 2024 with a striking new piece of digital artwork being virtually projected onto the OU’s Walton Hall building in Milton Keynes, UK: highlighting the contributions of four inspirational engineers. Discover more...
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Article 10 mins
Transition to Higher Education in Northern Ireland
Education & Development

Transition to Higher Education in Northern Ireland

The hub has been funded by The Department for the Economy to assist new students to prepare for and settle into their studies at universities, university colleges and further education colleges across Northern Ireland. The hub has a range of OpenLearn online materials to help with digital learning, study skills, wellbeing and subject-specific materials.
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Who are we? A project about art, migration, politics and identity
History & The Arts

Who are we? A project about art, migration, politics and identity

...OU researchers from the Justice, Borders, Rights Research Stream on Citizenship and Governance explored from various disciplinary and artistic perspectives, issues of migration, citizenship and belonging at Tate Modern. Agnes Czajka, Senior Lecturer in POLIS at the OU and artist Eva Sajovic explored how climate change affects communities in Cuba, and how participatory art...
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Article 15 mins
Understanding research with children and young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding research with children and young people

...OU website entitled ‘Our Voices’ to accompany and complement this course. You will find occasional references to this website as you go along, and in the final Session you are offered links to specific areas on the website that may be helpful as you start planning your project. The course covers why it is important to include children and young people in research...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Inside the mind of a simultaneous translator
Languages

Inside the mind of a simultaneous translator

...students to recite the days of the week and the months of the year in reverse order while listening to themselves through headphones. First they heard themselves with no delay. They then repeated the exercise with delayed feedback of 150, 200 and 250 milliseconds. Even a slight delay subverts speech, forcing listeners to slow down, stutter, slur and even come to a halt....
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Article 10 mins
Getting started with French 1
Languages

Getting started with French 1

...ou' sounds and build on this so you become familiar with some basic rules of French pronunciation. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course LGXF001 Beginners French 1: eh oui!...Week 1: Say hello: ‘Bonjour!’: 1 Say hello: ‘Bonjour!’ - It’s so important to make a good first impression, so to start with you’ll learn how to...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Race and place
History & The Arts

Race and place

...OU honorary graduate Jackie Kay. Jackie was born in Glasgow in 1961. Her mother was a white Scottish woman and her father was a black Nigerian student. She has written extensively about the subject of identity in the context of her own experience – for example, of being an adopted child, brought up in Glasgow. So you think I'm a mule? ‘Where do you come from?’...
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Article 10 mins
The ethics and politics of the migration and refugee crisis
Society, Politics & Law

The ethics and politics of the migration and refugee crisis

...OU's academics have come together with artists. Discover some earlier collaborations...[Pop-up professors] ‘Pop up’ Professors Bridget Anderson from Oxford University and Engin Isin from the Open University Below you can also access an example of a prior collaboration among academics from The Open University, Oxford University and the Migration Museum Project,...
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Article 5 mins