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What are the benefits of interdisciplinary study?
Education & Development

What are the benefits of interdisciplinary study?

...Writing about the discipline of education itself, for example, Bridges suggests that: ‘Discipline meant that enquiry was conducted in accordance with some established rules and procedures which provided the basis for among other things distinguishing truth from falsity, warranted from unwarranted belief. The requirement for disciplined enquiry became translated into the...
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Solving the perplexing mathematicians' problem of the spectre
Science, Maths & Technology

Solving the perplexing mathematicians' problem of the spectre

...MSc students can write a masters dissertation on in the module M840, Dissertation in mathematics. Research at The Open University: The hat and spectre tilings are currently being investigated by our mathematicians and engineers as part of their research into new materials. Visit A class of aperiodic honeycombs with tuneable mechanical properties for more information....
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Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle
History & The Arts

Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle

...writings, Schmitt has discouraged readings of this distinction that stress annihilation as the inevitable telos of such an antagonism, but affirmed the need to think the ‘enemy’ as that which binds any one sphere of the political as an ethico-political space. Schmitt’s desire for distinction is alive in contemporary legal orthodoxy. The prosecution of piracy as a...
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Managing virtual project teams
Money & Business

Managing virtual project teams

...writing a person specification be aware of social and task behaviours that can support an effective team understand a responsibility assignment matrix identify the difference in awareness between team members in a collocated team and between team members in a virtual team be aware of the approaches and techniques needed for a virtual team to be successful...Managing...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Voice-leading analysis of music 3: the background
History & The Arts

Voice-leading analysis of music 3: the background

...write out, or see in the score or analytical graph, with what you can hear – a difficult job! So make every effort to work through these materials in the manner and order suggested. Please note that you should have studied OpenLearn courses AA314_1 Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground and AA314_2 Voice-leading analysis of music 2: the middleground before...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Language and creativity
Languages

Language and creativity

...writing and I don’t particularly think that the joke (example 2) is a very good one. Yet the joke was classed as one of the UK’s top jokes by the Daily Mail (a British tabloid newspaper) in 2014, so clearly others disagree. Who decides what is high quality and valuable? Appropriacy is also an interesting criterion: are the form and content of the poem (example 6)...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
English in the world today
Languages

English in the world today

...writing down a short definition of what you understand by the ‘English language’. Imagine you’re defining the language to someone who has no conception of what it is: how would you sum it up in a few sentences? Comment You may well have started your definition by saying that English is the language spoken in England. This is how Dr Johnson defined it in his...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Conversations and interviews
Money & Business

Conversations and interviews

...writing, I will tend to use another unusual term in writing about interviews. A respondent is a person who is asked questions and whose answers are considered by an inquirer. It is significant that I have used this term rather than, say, informant or interviewee. The significance will become more apparent as we explore the different types of interviews and conversations...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs