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Hospital: Preparing for surgery
Health, Sports & Psychology

Hospital: Preparing for surgery

...OU co-produced series...Feeling normal Twenty-three-year-old primary school teacher Rosa has an infection on her mitral valve called endocarditis. Rosa is is an extremely complex case, as some infected tissue from her heart has broken off causing strokes in her brain. "It's the last thing you want to see in a young person, it carries a high mortality," says consultant...
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Video 10 mins
Stakeholders in marketing and finance
Money & Business

Stakeholders in marketing and finance

...students to analyse their own work practice in relation to the ideas covered in the reading. The marketing reading and activity cover the concept of ‘customers’ and who customers are in different work contexts. The financial information reading and activity cover the idea of financial stakeholders and their interests in an organisation. This OpenLearn course is an...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Protest Banners: Oddfellows and Chartism
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Oddfellows and Chartism

...OU has long promoted learning from one another and recognised that change for individuals and communities happens when people speak out and work together. That idea about change existed long before the Open University. But how was it transmitted? This banner, recently found in the village hall in Fringford, Oxfordshire, can be used to help us find out. This banner was...
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Video 5 mins
Educational leadership at local and community level: Supporting ‘Quality Education’ even in times of adversity
Education & Development

Educational leadership at local and community level: Supporting ‘Quality Education’ even in times of adversity

...students out of school globally, reversing years of progress in education. Governments around the world have had to ensure continuity of learning through alternative means. This has mostly been technology-based remote learning approaches, even though that risks exacerbating the challenges associated with the digital divide which disproportionately affects the...
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Article 10 mins
OpenMinds: Open and Shut Cases – Professor Simon Lee’s Inaugural lecture
Miscellaneous

OpenMinds: Open and Shut Cases – Professor Simon Lee’s Inaugural lecture

...students and the general public think differently and he will question how we can encourage students and the wider public to be open-minded. Finally, he will reflect on Allan Bloom’s challenging book, The Closing of the American Mind from 1987 and the battle-cries of ‘post-truth’ and ‘fake news’ in 2017. He will conclude by encouraging open-mindedness in the...
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Article 5 mins
What is the Sport and Fitness Hub?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is the Sport and Fitness Hub?

...students, as a means of stimulating interest in sport and fitness and sharing the academic research and teaching interests of the academics who work on the sport and fitness qualification. This hub was launched in October 2024 to support the Sport and Fitness Conference ‘Embedding Children’s Rights into Sport and Fitness’. It brings together existing content that is...
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Article 5 mins
Religious literacy for Further education: A social justice approach
History & The Arts

Religious literacy for Further education: A social justice approach

...students with religions studies specialists. The workshops embedded the principle of co-design to support the development of these OpenLearn assets, the first of which explains what religious literacy is, while the second explores what it might look like in a science teaching setting. Religious literacy film Transcript Religious literacy is not the same as the knowledge...
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Video 10 mins
Translation as a career
Languages

Translation as a career

...OU’s MA in Translation. You might also be interested in the second part: L802 Translation in practice...Translation as a career: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the skills required to become a professional translator and what is meant by translation competence have an awareness of what it means to be a professional...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs