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Take away Science
History & The Arts

Take away Science

...physics and astronomy episode we chat to Dr Tara Shears just before the LHC was switched on in September 2008; catch up with two space scientists to find out about their heroes of science; and eavesdrop on a fascinating conversation between Dr Dave Rothery and Dr Mahesh Anand about the moon. The interviews are recorded by OU staff and the programme is hosted by Dr Mike...
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Audio 3 hrs 50 mins
Rio 2016: A Caster Semenya reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: A Caster Semenya reading list

...physical advantage is missing the point anyway: Elite sport is built on the back of inequality. We love the myth of a level playing field, but it doesn’t exist. Of the 207 nations competing in Rio, 75 have never won a medal. Wealthy, powerful countries dominate the Olympic Games, while conflicted, war-torn, impoverished countries simply lack the resources to promote...
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Video 10 mins
Enhancing pupil learning on museum visits
Education & Development

Enhancing pupil learning on museum visits

...physical feelings of a wartime child. This richness and immediacy of experience can be applied across the curriculum and with pupils at any age. The resources for activities like the one described above, together with many more ideas and educational programmes, are located in museums. Museums are the nation's treasure houses. They're packed with objects, stories, ideas...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
The Enlightenment
History & The Arts

The Enlightenment

...physics. They suggested that the natural world could be explored and understood, and that nature and everything in it was governed by underlying ‘laws’; that there were rational, universally valid answers to the questions asked by an enquiring mind; that for every effect there was an identifiable cause, for every natural phenomenon an explanation, a category and a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Challenging ideas in mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Challenging ideas in mental health

...physical, represented by partitions or walls or fences, to show who is allowed in and who is not (and under what terms). [A photograph of two pairs of shoes either side of a painted line.] Figure 1 The sorts of boundaries we consider here are more social than physical. They also define ‘who’s in and who’s out’. In many ways, social boundaries are the most...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Secondary learning
Education & Development

Secondary learning

...physical or electronic – to record your thoughts in a way in which they can easily be retrieved and re-visited. If you prefer, however, you can record your ideas in response boxes in the course. In order to do this, and to retrieve your responses, you will need to enrol on the course. This OpenLearn course is part of a collection of Open University short courses for...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Introducing relational care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing relational care

...physical things or with dementias, and yeah, there has to be some boundaries. So you know, I also get a satisfaction from being able to do that. And people die. So I'm not I can't be immune to feelings of sadness when we lose people and how that affects me and also other residents. We want to be able to express that we miss someone. And also, we share that with the...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!
Money & Business

Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!

...physical and financial resources: prioritising and problem solving and monitoring performance...This free course, Understanding management: I'm managing thank you! provides you with a set of ideas for developing your approach to managing your own work what we might call self-management. In order to do this, we will examine some of the key processes of management decision...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs