It’s summer which hopefully means great weather and lots of sport. According to the new OpenLearn study unit Exploring sport online: Athletes and efficient hearts what is the national average heart rate? Go to the study unit for a clue.
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Latest news: New learning site
The Open University is launching a new learning site for anyone to access later in 2009. We are looking for people with an interest in climate change to help us test the prototype. If you'd like to help out, sign-up here.
Silverville related study units on OpenLearn
A new Open University/BBC documentary called Silverville, started on BBC One late July (available on iPlayer). Find related OpenLearn study units and full story here.
OpenLearn Research Report published
Full story and report available online here.
OpenLearn sets the S.C.O.R.E.
The Higher Education Funding Council for England recently announced that it was giving The Open University £7.8 million from its Strategic Development Fund to enhance its national role. Full story here.
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- Croeseo: Beginners’ Welsh
- Using voluntary work to get ahead in the job market
- Understanding children: babies being heard
- Making sense of art history
- Starting with maths: patterns and formulas
- Starting with psychology
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Spotlight on... Ethics
Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences is a draft unit coming soon, comprising 40 hours of content. It capitalises on the lessons and feedback gathered during a trial course run by the authors in 2008 with a small group of volunteers using FM, the Web 2.0 videoconferencing tool available on OpenLearn.
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