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Introducing environment
Nature & Environment

Introducing environment

...out how YOUR personal shopping choices are affecting the climate. How addicted to fossil fuels are you? Using the interactive video feature, start off on track 2 and follow the easy instructions at the end of each of the next 12 tracks. You may be surprised! Video tracks 14-17 visit an eco-house with a compostable toilet and a green community in Hockerton. Audio tracks...
This Student Life
OpenLearn Ireland

This Student Life

...out about the Student Connections Conference. First Tutorial It’s the weekend of the first tutorial, Donna and Neil meet for the first time and discuss the Online Student Conference Brief Encounter The first assignment looms large in our students' journey this week. First assignment Tension is high as our students try to complete their first assignment. Tesco is coming!...
Start writing essays
History & The Arts

Start writing essays

...out every tiny detail. Writer's block Baroness Helena Kennedy’s cure for writers block is to go to the meat of the argument, then come back to the start later. A student's approach to planning Student Beth Lewis explains how she re-reads all her course notes, this helps her to adjusts and add to her research. Different approaches to research Brian Waldens approach is to...
How arguments are constructed and used in the Social Sciences
Society, Politics & Law

How arguments are constructed and used in the Social Sciences

...out five hundred million pounds too much. Fraudulent claims in that same period cost the taxpayer, that’s you and me, 1.4 billion a year. And that’s the ones they know about. For eight years now, the Social Security Accounts have been unable to be finally and completely audited and approved because they are in such disarray and the rot goes deeper still. Most decent...
Introducing philosophy
History & The Arts

Introducing philosophy

...out this short survey...Introducing philosophy: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand what is involved in the study of philosophy offer arguments for and against the main positions discussed in the study of philosophy use philosophical reasoning techniques in a rudimentary way...Introducing philosophy: 1 Approaching philosophy -...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
An introduction to electronics
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to electronics

...out by logic circuits or programmable microprocessors (Figure 4). These decide what to do from one moment to the next and control the behaviour of the system. [Described image] Figure 4 A board with a microprocessor capable of many millions of logical operations per second...An introduction to electronics: Actuation - Actuators are components that control the movement in...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Different types of business
Money & Business

Different types of business

...out a number of different types of business because they have different characteristics and behave differently. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course B100 An introduction to business and management...Different types of business: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: describe different types businesses...
Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
What do the latest pictures of Pluto tell us?
Science, Maths & Technology

What do the latest pictures of Pluto tell us?

...out about Pluto, the more perplexing it seems. For several weeks after its July 14 fly-by, NASA’s probe New Horizons was too busy doing science to transmit data to Earth. During that time we had to content ourselves with the few “taster” images that were beamed back immediately after it passed Pluto. However the probe has now begun the year-long process of...