Free Courses

Julia Jung under Creative Commons - NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International
0LEVEL
Environment
4 Environmental Monitoring Techniques
Environmental monitoring is a way of understanding the current condition and any changes that occur in the environment. Environmental change can occur to water, the land, the air, to plants and animals. Understanding environmental condition and changes can help support management activities, support policy development and its implementation, and develop information for sharing with the community, government and the wider public. The aim of this unit is to introduce why it is important to collect environmental data, some of the different methods that can be used, how to plan a monitoring study and how to analyse and share the information.
Skills course2 hrs
Copyright: The Open University
0LEVEL
Science
Analysing pesticides experiment
Analysing pesticides in the environment using GC-MS
Course3 hrs
Copyright: Clare Warren
3LEVEL
Science
Are you ready for S309?
Are you ready for S309? Self-assessment quiz for prospective students of S309 to test their level of skills prior to registering for the module.
Skills course2 hrs
Copyright: The Open University
0LEVEL
Science
Are you ready to study S111?
Introducing Open University module S111, with a simple set of self-assessment questions to find out whether potential students have the right background to study S111 successfully. Feedback will be given separately on science knowledge and understanding, maths skills, computing skills, English language skills, and time management.
Skills course1 hr
The Open University under Creative Commons - NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International
3LEVEL
Science
Being an OU Tutor in STEM: Computing and Communications
A short online course to support those looking to apply for the role of an OU Tutor.
Skills course6 hrs
under Public domain license
0LEVEL
Science
Biomimicry for a Sustainable World: Part 1
This course helps to promote biomimicry in all practices on the planet. Explore its significance, and examples of its implementation in different disciplines, in addition to how can you help the planet be more sustainable in your own sector.
Skills course5 hrs
Melina Verger under Public domain license
0LEVEL
Science
Brain
Un cours non exhaustif pour faire un tour à l'intérieur du cerveau.
Course1 hr
geralt (pixabay) under Creative Commons - 3.0 International
2LEVEL
Environment
Business and climate change
Businesses can be affected both directly from climate change and indirectly through government policies. Risks can occur from the impacts of predicted climate change effects such as increased temperature, extreme weather events, disrupted ecosystems and flooding of land. This unit is wrried for small and medium enterprises and people interested in how businesses can respond to climate change. It introduces key concepts such as risk, corporate social responsibility and engaging employees and enables businesses to quickly grasp the issues and opportunities for managing risks. Unit authored by Dr. Barbara L Jones
Course5 hrs
geralt (pixabay) under Creative Commons - 3.0 International
0LEVEL
Science
Calculating my Carbon Footprint?
This unit seeks to explain what makes up a personal carbon footprint, and to identify alternative options in calculating one. For example, should footprints include emissions associated with goods and services purchased, or should they be restricted to directly attributable emissions, mainly from the use of energy and transport? There are many websites offering carbon footprint calculators, but the answers are almost always different. This unit will explain why this is the case, and allow you select the ones that you feel are most appropriate. Finally, a carbon footprint by itself achieves little; users need to be able to compare their carbon footprint with other people's, and to identify actions that might reduce the footprint to a desired level in the battle against global climate change.
Course4 hrs
Michael Skarlatos under Creative Commons - NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International
2LEVEL
Health, nursing and medicine
Carbohydrate Counting Refresher
This course has been designed by health care professionals, to support people with diabetes recap on carbohydrate counting skills and knowledge.
Skills course1 hr
geralt (pixabay) under Creative Commons - 3.0 International
1LEVEL
Science
Climate Change
Climate change is not going to happen alone. As our climate changes other global environmental problems are going to carry on occurring, such as habitat destruction, pollution, soil erosion and species extinctions. What we currently have very little understanding of is how all these things will interact in the future. Climate change may make some of these problems much worse and some of them may themselves contribute to climate change creating a feedback loop. This unit identifies several global change problems that may interact with climate change.
Course3 hrs
geralt (pixabay) under Creative Commons - 3.0 International
0LEVEL
Science
Climate Change and Sustainability
It is now universally recognised that human-induced climate change could have major adverse consequences for the world’s ecosystems and societies. Climate change is caused by the emission of greenhouse gases, which trap long-wave radiation in the upper atmosphere and consequently raise atmospheric temperatures. This also produces other changes in the climate system. Carbon dioxide is the most important of these gases and its atmospheric concentration has increased exponentially since the beginning of the industrial revolution as a result of fossil fuel combustion and land-use change. In 1800, the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide was about 280 parts per million; today it is about 350 ppm and rising. Similar increases have been observed for other greenhouse gases such as methane and nitrous oxide.
Course2 hrs