activities cassette 1 ; ubungskassette 1 ; landschaftliche vielfalt und politische strukturen

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Building Milton Keynes	Looking at the different types of constructional materials that are combined to build a new city,...	1974
Energy conservation at Pennyland	Looking at energy efficiency in houses in Pennyland, Milton Keynes.	1983
Lord Campbell interview	Interview with Lord Campbell of Eskan, Chairman of the Milton Keynes Development Corporation about...	1973
Passive Solar houses in Pennyland	Looking at energy efficiency in houses in Pennyland, Milton Keynes.	1982
Why were we chosen as students?	Naomi Sargant answers the question from a student "Why were we chosen as students?"	1971
The nature of OU students	Naomi Sargant describes the nature of the Open University student population, comparing 1979 with...	1981
The Open Forum 02 (1971) Introduction	James Barber introduces the Open Forum.	26 January 1971
Open University Students Association Structure	Sheena Gordon, Acting General Secretary of the Open University Students Association, describes the...
Harold Wilson	Footage from Harold Wilson's 'University of the Air' speech given at the Labour Party Conference in...	1983
Jennie Lee	Short interview clip of Jennie Lee speaking about setting up the Open University.	1983
Charter Ceremony	Short clip from the Charter Ceremony held at the Royal Society in 1971, including footage from the...	1969
First OU Programme	In this opening clip from the very first Open Forum programme shown on television, the University...	1971
First OU graduation	Footage from The Open University's first degree ceremony at Alexandra Palace in 1973, primarily the...	1973
Students at Summer School	Footage of technology students at an OU residential school at the River Frome and in a laboratory.	1991
Women students	Gill Kirkup, Senior Lecturer in Educational Technology, describes the success of women students at...	1994
Overseas visitors to the OU	Vice Chancellor John Horlock describing overseas visitors to the OU in 1982.	1983
Computing in 1983	Short clip describing the University's micro computing courses.	1983
"he… basically told me to buy myself a plane ticket and head off to California"	Don Aldiss describes his OU field research in Cyprus and the USA.	07 April 2021
"all cooking had to be done on a pressure cooker which we had in the back of the Land Rover"	Michael Baker describes his experiences in Chile, working on the Open University Andean Volcanoes...	27 April 2021
"that lonely feeling of heavy burden of responsibility"	Oliver Boyd-Barrett describes working on his dissertation and his interactions at Walton Hall.	06 April 2021
"I… never stopped being drawn back into the fray of academic work"	Oliver Boyd-Barrett describes working for The Open University and moving to the USA.	06 April 2021
"once the first graduates came out at the end of '72, the whole situation changed"	Max Bramer describes how it felt to work and study at the OU in the early 1970s.	29 April 2021
"you've got to become very self-reliant, or the ship will sink"	Max Bramer compares working at the OU to other institutions, and shares his experiences with...	29 April 2021
"amazingly, I've actually still got a copy of the graduation programme"	Max Bramer describes his graduation day at Alexandra Palace.	29 April 2021
"we had this new world, and then we also had the old world of Oxford"	Julia Goodfellow describes her experiences at Oxford and the OU.	20 April 2021
"I think the OU is so part of my life, it's not just about my PhD"	Julia Goodfellow describes the importance of the OU and her career at Birkbeck.	20 April 2021
"it felt like a kind of pioneering setting… it was a Wild West"	Jeff Haywood shares his memories of what it was like to study at the OU in the 1970s.	23 March 2021
"my interest in being an educator increased"	Jeff Haywood describes the long-lasting impact of studying with The Open University and becoming an...	23 March 2021
"whatever it took to make the OU a success, it was all hands on deck"	Jeff Haywood describes the opportunities available at the OU alongside studying for his PhD.	23 March 2021
"there was no sense of Higher Education at all in my family, none"	Bill Morris describes his early education and first experiences with STEM.	15 April 2021
"well, at this point I'm thinking this is Game Over"	Bill Morris describes finishing his degree and sitting his external exam in Milton Keynes.	15 April 2021
"the atmosphere was hurried and near-chaotic - I fitted in perfectly!"	Stephen Potter describes his interview at Walton Hall in 1974 and his initial tour of the...	25 March 2021
"there was even a Dutch/Belgian TV crew who came along at one point"	Stephen Potter describes the experience of being in Milton Keynes during its development, and the...	25 March 2021
"so I was kicked out of school at 15 and went to work in a factory"	Ken Richardson describes his early childhood and schooling in Newcastle upon Tyne and County Durham.	23 April 2021
"one thing that doing the PhD had taught me was the value of scholarship"	Ken Richardson shares his memories of working on his PhD, and the politics surrounding The Open...	23 April 2021
"the first ten years worth of history was played out on stage"	Alfred Vella shares his memories of Walter Perry and the operetta The Ballad of Walton Hall.	13 April 2021
"it was a school with a mission"	Joan Whitehead shares her experiences of attending a comprehensive secondary school and being...	16 June 2021
"it's become increasingly recognised, and I made a small contribution to that I think"	Joan Whitehead discusses a questionnaire she created for her PhD and the contribution she has made...	16 June 2021
"in fact I was the first postgraduate student, I think, in the Faculty of Arts altogether"	Neil Wynn describes the academic community at the OU during its first decade as a higher education...	08 April 2021
Galileo's inclined plane experiment	The main steps of Galileo's inclined plane experiment are described. The experiment was used to...	10 January 1971
Introduction to Unit 17 of S100	Stephen Hurry gives an introduction to Unit 17 of S100 which is about mitosis in living cells.	16 May 1971
Time-lapse photography showing mitosis	Time-lapse photography is used to show the different stages and characteristic features of one...	16 May 1971
Cell division stages and characteristics	The whole sequence of the divison cycle is broken down into a series of arbitrary stages. Each of...	16 May 1971
A demonstration of the experimental methodology used to perform the transformation experiment	This transformation experiment re-creates one of the crucial experiments which proves that DNA...	16 May 1971
The effect of selection on natural populations	Dr Holmes explains how the frequency in a population of a mutant gene with selective advantage is...	30 May 1971
Success in evolutionary terms	Dr Varley explains how success in evolutionary terms means passing on of an individual's genes to...	30 May 1971
Artificial selection	Dr Sidnie Manton talks about how a new breed (variety) of cat with long fur but the Siamese colour...	30 May 1971
Examining a coastal environment to understand geological processes	Professor Pentz gives an explanation of how we can find out how rocks were made by studying what is...	25 July 1971
Grain size measurements of sand taken from different areas of a beach	The process of measuring sand grain sizes to determine the size distribution differences between...	25 July 1971
The nature of P and S waves	A physical demonstration of the nature of P and S waves is followed by a discussion and...	28 June 1971

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