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Manufacturing
Science, Maths & Technology

Manufacturing

...free course will introduce manufacturing as a system and will describe some of the many different ways of making products. We will illustrate how the required properties of the materials in a product influence the choice of manufacturing process used...How are designs turned into products? What resources, materials and methods are used and what set of activities goes...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor

...free course, Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor, examines the differences between hibernation and torpor, and discusses the characteristic signs of hibernation behaviour. It explores the triggers that bring on hibernation, and whether internal signals or external season cues are predominant. It also examines the physiological adaptations that occur in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Climate change
Nature & Environment

Climate change

...free course explores the basic science that underpins climate change and global warming...Climate change is a key issue on today's social and political agenda. This free course explores the basic science that underpins climate change and global warming....Climate change: Introduction - This course explores the topic of climate change and global warming. We will ......
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Level 2: Intermediate 18 hrs
Delacroix
History & The Arts

Delacroix

...free course, Delacroix, you will be introduced to a variety of Delacroix's work and will see how his paintings relate to the cultural transition from Enlightenment to Romanticism. You will study Delacroix's early career, his classical background, the development of Romantic ideas and their incorporation into his work. You will have the opportunity to study some of his...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Cell signalling
Science, Maths & Technology

Cell signalling

...free course, Cell signalling, explains the general principles of signal transduction and specifically, how even the simplest organisms can detect and respond to events in their ever-changing environment...This free course, Cell signalling, explains the general principles of signal transduction and specifically, how even the simplest organisms can detect and respond to...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Groups and teamwork
Science, Maths & Technology

Groups and teamwork

...free course, Groups and teamwork, will help you improve your working relationships with other people in groups of three or more. The course also deals with project life cycles, project management and the role of the leader...Are you always the quiet one when it comes to group discussion? This free course, Groups and teamwork, will help you improve your working...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Brighton Pavilion
History & The Arts

Brighton Pavilion

...free course, Brighton Pavilion, you will examine the Royal Pavilion at Brighton, and its relationship to nineteenth-century Romanticism and exoticism. You'll begin with a biographical discussion of the Prince of Wales, afterwards Prince Regent and eventually King George IV, to whose specifications the Pavilion was built. With the help of video and still images you will...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Eutrophication
Nature & Environment

Eutrophication

...free course, Eutrophication, explains how this process occurs, what its effects on different types of habitat are, and how it might be managed...Managing eutrophication is a key element in maintaining the earths biodiversity. Eutrophication is a process mostly associated with human activity whereby ecosystems accumulate minerals. This free course, Eutrophication, explains...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs