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Meet the OU experts behind 'Hospital'
Health, Sports & Psychology

Meet the OU experts behind 'Hospital'

...Open University's academics Julie Messenger and Dr Rajvinder Samra advised on our co-production 'Hospital'; here's what they think of the series...[hospital staff with a machine] Julie Messenger, academic consultant on the programme and Head of Nursing at The Open University, on what makes Hospital different from other programmes: "Unlike other hospital programmes which...
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Article 10 mins
Information blackout at the Council of Europe?
Nature & Environment

Information blackout at the Council of Europe?

...open to public access” if these documents are over 30 years old. In 2001, this same body went further by establishing such access rights for many documents immediately (if unclassified), after one year (if “restricted”) or after ten years (if “confidential”). It is frankly astonishing that an organisation so formally committed to the human rights, democracy and...
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Article 5 mins
Golden Globe Ocean Race: Drifting continents and a stormy passage
Science, Maths & Technology

Golden Globe Ocean Race: Drifting continents and a stormy passage

...opening and closure of oceans, also known as gateways, and the associated movements of continents called . At times, continental drift has resulted in the continents fragmenting into many smaller land masses as now, whilst at other times collisions have assembled vast supercontinents with immense mountain chains along their joins. Such constant rearrangement has had a...
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Video 20 mins
Dangoor Education
Science, Maths & Technology

Dangoor Education

...Open University and Dangoor Education, and provides links to the free courses we have created together...[The Open University logo, a blue shield] The Open University (OU) has a mission to be open to people, places, methods and ideas. We promote educational opportunity and social justice by providing high-quality education to all who wish to realise their ambitions and...
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Article 5 mins
Network security
Digital & Computing

Network security

...open to exploitation (e.g. a network cable or a protocol weakness). A threat indicates the potential for a violation of security. The term attack is applied to an attempted violation. When you have finished studying this unit you should be able to explain the meaning of all the terms listed below: active attack application layer encryption application level gateway...
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
Bus driver, social worker and university lecturer, a personal, professional and political journey
Society, Politics & Law

Bus driver, social worker and university lecturer, a personal, professional and political journey

...Open University's Social Sciences courses Background I am a white woman from a working-class background and have lived predominantly in Glasgow and the west of Scotland all my life. I have a strong sense of my own identity as a woman and the implications of this culturally in relation to political and social developments during the course of my life. At certain stages in...
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Using visualisation in maths teaching
Education & Development

Using visualisation in maths teaching

...Open University by visiting our online prospectus...Using visualisation in maths teaching: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate an engagement in a number of activities that involve visualisation and learning from personal experiences what it means understand the views of a well-known mathematics educator talking about...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
STEM postgraduate research
Science, Maths & Technology

STEM postgraduate research

This content hub highlights the diverse range of topics explored by postgraduate research students in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) at The Open University.
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