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Can renewable energy sources power the world? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Can renewable energy sources power the world?

...law’. For example, a wind velocity increase from 6 ms–1 to 8 m s–1 will increase the power in the wind by a factor of more than two. The power contained in the wind is not in practice the amount of power that can be extracted by a wind turbine because losses are incurred in the energy extraction/conversion process. There are many different types of wind turbine, as...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Exploring anxiety
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring anxiety

...Law (Head of OpenLearn). We are grateful to Dawn Partner, Dale Harry and Sofia Maruzza for production assistance, Katie Meade for Rights and Debbie Roberts (engagevisually.co.uk) for creative assistance in developing the visual summaries for this course. Parts of the course were redeveloped from existing Open University and OpenLearn courses: Toates, F. (2010)...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Everyday maths 1
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 1

...law, weights of goods for sale in the UK have to be in metric units: grams and kilograms. Historically, however, most people used imperial measures of weight: in size order these are ounces, pounds and stones. 16 ounces (oz) = 1 pound (lb) 14 pounds = 1 stone (st) You might still come across these weights sometimes. An ounce is a bit less than 30 g. A pound is a bit less...
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Free course 48 hrs
Health and wellbeing in the ancient world
History & The Arts

Health and wellbeing in the ancient world

...law allowed for any interested party to be present at the house where she was giving birth, or to send representatives (Justinian, Digest, XXV 4.1.10). At the actual birth, those who were concerned were allowed to send women into the room to witness what happened. These would include one midwife attending on behalf of the deceased man’s family and another representing...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Design

...Law Lord, rides one, and that Ritchie's bike, No 7 from the production line, got him from South Kensington to Kew and back all through the blizzards. It is, of course, an expensive way of making a bike, this, and each one costs £195 by the time you have added VAT. But they are extremely slick little bikes, and with only 80 made so far, think of the rarity value. A...
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Level 1: Introductory 28 hrs
Hybrid working: skills for leadership
Money & Business

Hybrid working: skills for leadership

...Law, Human Resources Director at Envato: ‘There is always fear that collaboration is based on face-to-face contact but it turns out it is not! People can work on things together asynchronously and be just as effective!’ (Remote.co, no date). Online collaboration has challenges, but with effort from you as a hybrid leader, it can be made effective. You can ensure that...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Exploring depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring depression

...Law (Head of OpenLearn). We are grateful to Dawn Partner, Dale Harry and Sofia Maruzza for production assistance, Katie Meade for Rights and Debbie Roberts (engagevisually.co.uk) for creative assistance in developing the visual summaries for this course. Parts of the course were redeveloped from S826 Introduction to mental health science. Except for third party materials...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness

...law the way you speak to your colleagues. However, on social media, you write your message without necessarily knowing who will be reading it. All these readers will see the same message and make different assumptions about the sender. This connects to communication partly being about managing impressions or a performance provided for a particular audience. The difficulty...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs