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The Seasons in Art
History & The Arts

The Seasons in Art

...English painter John Everett Millais’s Spring (Apple Blossoms). Millais still follow tradition in associating the season with young girls – by contrast, the French painter Camille Pissarro omitted any human presence from his painting of trees in blossom in the town of Pontoise, while Vincent Van Gogh’s painting of almond blossom eliminates everything but branches...
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Video 15 mins
Death and medicine: postponement and promise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Death and medicine: postponement and promise

...English end-of-life care’. Unpublished PhD thesis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Glaser, B. G. and Strauss, A. L. (1965) Awareness of Dying, Chicago, Aldine. Foucault, M. (1977) Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (trans. Sheridan, A.), Harmondsworth, Penguin. Hochschild, A. (1983) The Managed Heart: The Commercialisation of Human Feeling, Berkeley,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Getting started with French 2
Languages

Getting started with French 2

...English with IELTS, which will be available for registration in due course. The Open Centre for Languages and Cultures is an international leader in online language learning and intercultural communications, built on our pioneering pedagogy and research. What makes the Open Centre different? The OU is the leader in online learning and teaching with a heritage of more than...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Start writing fiction
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction

...English Literature and Creative Writing MA Creative Writing Part 1 MA Creative Writing Part 2 If you identify as being from a Black background, you could be eligible to study our MA in Creative Writing for free: Open Futures – Creative Writing Scholarship. Tell us what you think! We’d love to hear from you to help us improve our free learning offering through...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
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Education & Development

Teaching mathematics

...English language this is one, two, three, four, etc. When counting objects, children learn to refer to each object (perhaps by pointing) and to say the next number in the sequence. This is called one–to–one correspondence. The last number in the counting sequence gives the number of objects being counted (one, two, three, four, so there are four objects). This is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
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Money & Business

Working in teams

...English language textbooks and she works closely with her co-author who lives in a different part of the UK. Together they are employed by an educational publishing company located in Germany. Activity 2 Vanessa’s virtual experience Timing: Allow about 15 minutes Watch this interview, and make notes on the issues that arise from this way of working and what Vanessa has...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Intermediate German: The world of work
Languages

Intermediate German: The world of work

...English are given at the start of each activity to make it easier to quickly complete the task. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course L223 German studies 2: language and culture of the German-speaking world...Intermediate German: The world of work: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs