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Walk the walk: encountering death and dying spaces in hospital
Health, Sports & Psychology

Walk the walk: encountering death and dying spaces in hospital

...family and friends when called in to visit someone they know. It can be a time of heightened emotions and confusion. ...This content is associated with The Open University's Health and Social Care courses and qualifications. In this interactive, you will explore two people’s experiences of visiting a hospital in these circumstances. You will find out how the hospital...
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Activity 15 mins
The Heidelberg Project: A Detroit Story
Society, Politics & Law

The Heidelberg Project: A Detroit Story

...family and how one of its members; Jenenne was inspired to join the Heidelberg Project. A charity that encourages community development, through the arts and education. This material forms part of the Open University course International development: making sense of a changing world... The power of art Jenenne explains how a wrong turn changed her life. Joining the...
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Audio 20 mins
The Large Hadron Collider
Science, Maths & Technology

The Large Hadron Collider

...family of supersymmetric particles and provide an insight into the nature of dark matter. Looking to the future, there is a sneak preview of the LHC upgrade plans, and a particle accelerator of the future, the Next Linear Collider... The Large Hadron Collider An introduction to this album The world's most complicated machine A basic description of what the LHC is, how...
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Audio 27 mins
Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd
History & The Arts

Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd

...family, and anything in his background that is discussed here that you think might have contributed to his future career a writer. CHARLOTTE LILLEY So we're at Hardy's Cottage, the home of the novelist Thomas Hardy. And it was where he was born. So he lived in a very small country cottage with his family, his four siblings and his mother and father. And he lived here from...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour
History & The Arts

Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour

...History, English Literature, Creative Writing and Classical Studies today...In the eighteenth century and into the early part of the nineteenth, considerable numbers of aristocratic men (and occasionally women) travelled across Europe in pursuit of education, social advancement and entertainment, on what was known as the Grand Tour. A central objective was to gain...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Veiling
History & The Arts

Veiling

...history, politics, culture and, above all, the way in which people seek to express their own identity’ (Tarlo, 1996, p. 1). As the novelist and academic Alison Lurie argues in her book The Language of Clothes: Long before I am near enough to talk to you on the street, in a meeting, or at a party, you announce your sex, age and class to me through what you are wearing...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Co-design approaches
Science, Maths & Technology

Co-design approaches

...history and principles, and provides case studies and practical tools. The Cross-pollination Resource Pack This film provides a step-by-step guide to delivering a cross-pollination workshop with people co-designing projects or initiatives in a particular place. Video shared from Cross-pollination project playlist Acknowledgements: This OpenLearn page was produced through...
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Article 5 mins
Impossible Peace 2: An everyday kind of miracle
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: An everyday kind of miracle

...history might prove too heavy for the gossamer threads of peace. Sometimes, when covering yet another interface riot, or charting the rise of dissident republican organisations, or interminable political stand-offs, I would often be reminded of F Scott Fitzgerald’s famous phrase in The Great Gatsby; “so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly...
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Article 5 mins