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Exploring anxiety
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring anxiety

...concepts, dispelling some common misconceptions, and to help provide the context to inform your studies. This free OpenLearn course has been developed from the Open University course S826 Introduction to mental health science (Stage 1 in the Masters in Mental Health Science), and is suitable preparatory reading if you are considering moving on to postgraduate study in...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Making sense of art history
History & The Arts

Making sense of art history

...prompt more people to answer ‘no’ for questions 1 and 3 than will Raphael's Madonna of the Meadow. The range of answers for the second part of question 3 is likely to be particularly wide. Personally, while I feel that Madonna of the Meadow is quite peaceful and seems to convey a feeling of warmth and tenderness, I find Mother and Child Divided to be pretty disturbing...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
An introduction to artificial intelligence
Education & Development

An introduction to artificial intelligence

...concepts introduced in the course. Finally, this course is a gateway into a wider world of thinking about and even working in the field of AI. The future will surely include significant amounts of AI technology in one form or another. The present course provides a taste of the full version of this course within the Open Centre for Languages and Cultures (explained further...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Achieving public dialogue
Science, Maths & Technology

Achieving public dialogue

...concept in policy making. For society to function effectively, laws and policies must have public support. It is desirable, therefore, to have some idea of what the public thinks about an issue before regulation is finalised. Consultation is based on establishing the nature of a socially collective view that we call ‘public opinion’. The main means of establishing...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
Living without oil
Science, Maths & Technology

Living without oil

...concepts, principles and language relating to the science and social issues appropriate to the development of alternatives to oil products demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of the impact of the use of oil on the future of our planet express and rewrite concepts in an objective and factually correct way make sense of information presented in different ways,...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Grammar matters
Languages

Grammar matters

...concepts of the field of study. The aim of the text is to move the argument forward as succinctly as possible. Information that can be taken for granted as understood therefore gets packaged up as long noun groups. The use of these abstract and often complex noun groups reflects the subject matter, while in Text A the nouns refer to the people and things that the story is...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Environmental management and organisations
Nature & Environment

Environmental management and organisations

...prompted some reflection and discussion, if not action, about how human–environment relationships should or could be managed. You’ll probably notice in your timelines a reference to Rachel Carson’s book Silent spring, published in 1962. It is often used in many teaching contexts as a key moment of raising public concern about environmental damage and public health...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Remaking the relations of work and welfare
Society, Politics & Law

Remaking the relations of work and welfare

...concepts of ‘welfare’ and ‘work’ as separate spheres of activity, or even binary opposites: welfare or work. This can occur in different ways, for example: an explicit connection is drawn between welfare and work, as though they were directly dependent upon one another: welfare and work, work for welfare, welfare to work; the connection is implicit: welfare and...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs