Education & Development
Dr David Hann on how to succeed as a distance learner
The Open University's Dr David Hann tells you how to become a successful distance learner in this extended interview from 'Go the Distance'...Transcript
Science, Maths & Technology
Moon Trumps: Pitch satellite against satellite
Become a master of the universe by winning Moon Trumps...Find out more about The Open University's Natural Sciences courses. Play full-screen
Money & Business
Understanding Globalisation
...become interdependent on and other. This material forms part of the Open University course B835 The dynamics of strategy... Understanding Globalisation Susan Segal Horn explains why the word ‘Globalisation’ is misused Cultural Homogenisation Susan Segal Horn explains how national cultures are becoming less different Technical developments Technological developments...
Health, Sports & Psychology
Panic buying and how to stop it
...becoming a reality. However, what is equally important to understand in panic buying is the role that social perceptions play, in particular, the social perceptions of other people’s behaviour. The fear of missing out Fear provides a collective background state that is shared by many people, meaning they all respond to varying degrees to their sense of foreboding,...
Science, Maths & Technology
Planetary Protection
Protecting the space environment is becoming ever more critical so we’ve collated some FREE resources on protecting planetary bodies as humans explore extraterrestrial environments.
History & The Arts
Why Study Philosophers?
...OU's series Journeys In Thought explored philosophy through six programmes about six philosophers: Arendt, Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, Marx, and Rousseau. But how representative of philosophy are these six? This is a more controversial question than it sounds. According to some philosophers they are representative, according to others they are hardly...
Nature & Environment
Haymaking is critical to our heritage meadows, but is later really better?
...student, Vicky Bowskill, explains how researching seasonal changes in the nutritional content of hay can help conserve the UK's precious species-rich floodplain meadows... [farmers in a field haymaking in the early 1900s] Haymaking in the early 1900s, newspaper cutting from my grandmother's scrapbooks. [farmers on a tractor haymaking during the 1950s post-war agricultural...
Society, Politics & Law
The politics of food introduction
...become a contested political symbol of rural Britain versus the need to keep up with mass markets, and as the policing of pleasure increases, in an attempt to deal with social problems such as binge drinking, the new politics of food has a far reaching impact...Video Audio Text Commentary The humble apple, and cider, one of its most pleasurable products, tells us a lot...