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Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution
History & The Arts

Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution

...adapted extract from the Open University course A113 Revolutions63and is part of a set of four OpenLearn courses, covering Revolutions of the Sixties64. Transcript...Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution: Introduction - Are we always free to choose one course of action over another, regardless of the situation that we are facing? Many of us would answer ‘no’...
The caring manager in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

The caring manager in health and social care

...adapted extract from the Open University course K318 Leading, managing, caring....The caring manager in health and social care: Introduction - This free course, The caring manager in health and social care, encourages you to think about how a leader or manager in the ‘caring professions’ can be, in short, more caring. It is made up of a series of four sections. The...
Rising China and Africa's development: oil
Society, Politics & Law

Rising China and Africa's development: oil

...et cetera, et cetera. So it's either- some people see it as a good thing. It's different from what the West has done for 200 years in Africa. Some people will say, well, it's just the same as you know, Just because they're Chinese doesn't mean they're any different from what the West has done. So it's a kind of polarised position, and what we want to do with our own...
Digital forensics
Science, Maths & Technology

Digital forensics

...adapted extract from the Open University course M812 Digital forensics...Digital forensics: References - Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) (2012) Good Practice Guide for Digital Evidence, 5th version [Online]. Available at http://www.acpo.police.uk/documents/crime/2011/201110-cba-digital-evidence-v5.pdf (Accessed 28 January 2014). Bertillon, A. (1912) ‘Les...
Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Microbes – friend or foe?
Nature & Environment

Microbes – friend or foe?

...adapted extract from the Open University course SG071 Learn about microbes...Microbes – friend or foe?: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate general knowledge and understanding of some of the basic facts, language, concepts and principles relating to microbiology and its importance and applications in biological and health...
Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Introducing public health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing public health

...adapted extract from the Open University course K311 Promoting public health: skills, perspectives and practice...Introducing public health: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate some knowledge and understanding of the wider determinants of health and ill-health demonstrate some knowledge and understanding of the roles of...
Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains

...et al., 2021). While your attraction towards heroic characters in fiction is easy to understand (they are pro-social, positive characters whom you may see as being role models), the attraction that you feel towards your favourite villain is perhaps harder to explain and has been something which psychologists, alongside authors of fiction, have been interested to explore....
The Enlightenment
History & The Arts

The Enlightenment

...et des metiers (Encyclopédia, or an Analytical Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts and Trades), published in Paris between 1751 and 1772 in 28 volumes and accompanied by 11 volumes of illustrative plates. (Further supplementary volumes were published almost up to the French Revolution in 1789.) The main editor of the work was Denis Diderot (1713–84, pronounced...
Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs