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Brass Instruments
History & The Arts

Brass Instruments

...introduction to this album How Brass Instruments Work Technology and acoustical principles. How technical developments through history have affected the design of brass instruments. Changing Key and Pitch Playing the cornet, trombone and trumpet, experts demonstrate hand stopping and lipping. Mechanical Innovation : Keys The keyed bugle and the ophicleide enabled brass...
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Audio 1 hr 10 mins
Innovation Design: Energy and Sustainability
Science, Maths & Technology

Innovation Design: Energy and Sustainability

...introduction to this album. What makes customers choose a green tariff? Customers who have opted for a green tariff talk about the reasons why they have decided to do so. The uptake of green tariffs Reasons why green tariffs are taken up by the minority in the UK. Living in a power station How a suburb in Holland is offsetting its power consumption by generating solar...
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Audio 31 mins
Personal development planning for engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Personal development planning for engineering

...Introduction - This course is focused on your career as an engineer. It provides an opportunity to interrogate and scrutinise your career plans. This might be the first time you have really considered your future career as an engineer; although, particularly if you are already working in engineering, it won't be new at all. Even if you do already have strong career plans,...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Netherlands
Languages

Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Netherlands

...Introduction: English Types of bread in the Netherlands have historically been divided east-west and north-south, determined by the cereal that was grown. In the south-west wheat was grown on the clay soil and brown bread was baked from this. In the south and east rye bread was eaten because of rye and oat harvests. White bread used to indicate status. For centuries Dutch...
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Activity 5 mins
What the 2024 Paris Olympics can tell us about French language policy today
Education & Development

What the 2024 Paris Olympics can tell us about French language policy today

...introduction of several additional sports to the 2024 games would also mean the introduction of a number of new technical terms that have not yet found a French translation, the French Ministry of Culture together with the Ministry for Sport set up an expert panel to ensure that new French terms that can be used for the games (and beyond) are identified and defined....
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Article 5 mins
QATAR 2022 must impart a positive coaching legacy for Africa and the Caribbean member associations
Health, Sports & Psychology

QATAR 2022 must impart a positive coaching legacy for Africa and the Caribbean member associations

...manager in the English Premier League. Yet Nigeria recently seemed to take a step backwards by sacking their caretaker coach Augustine ‘Cerezo’ Eguavoen, who is Nigerian, and replacing him with José Peseiro (White Portuguese) who is essentially a journeyman coach with a record that doesn’t scream glory at you. One can only assume that the Nigerian Football...
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Article 5 mins
My Interest in Cities is Really an Interest in the Way People Live
Society, Politics & Law

My Interest in Cities is Really an Interest in the Way People Live

...meet, as Professor Allan Cochrane explains the motivations running through his work. It threads together studies of how people live, manage and organise their lives, drawing in both local and global networks of power and ideas. Cities allow us to understand, and are key parts of how, abstract theories and sweeping trends become grounded in local and everyday experiences....
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Video 5 mins
Introducing healthcare improvement
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing healthcare improvement

...Introduction - This OpenLearn course provides a sample of postgraduate study in Health and Social Care. In this free course, Introducing healthcare improvement, you will be exploring what is meant by the terms ‘quality’ and ‘quality improvement’ in the context of healthcare. You will consider what constitutes the key dimensions of healthcare quality that...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs