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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...
Level 3: Advanced 12 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...
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...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Bun-chùrsa mu bhith a’ dèanamh atharrachadh poilitigeach is sòisealta
Society, Politics & Law

Bun-chùrsa mu bhith a’ dèanamh atharrachadh poilitigeach is sòisealta

...free course explores how you can make change politically and socially, giving essential background information to get started, examples of inspiring changemakers, advice on how to have an impact both within and outside of traditional UK parliamentary politics, and the qualities needed to succeed...This course is also available in English and Welsh. Tha iomadh èiginn mu...
Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century
Science, Maths & Technology

Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century

...free course, Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century, which explores how technology shapes our world. Learn what it means to live a ‘digital life’, understand the role of information and communication technologies, and discover how computers work behind the scenes...This free course, Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century, provides a general...
Data and processes in computing
Digital & Computing

Data and processes in computing

...free course, Data and processes in computing, will help you to understand the forms of data that are handled by software and look at the various processes that can be applied to the data. These ideas are demonstrated through the use of a supermarket till and illustrate how simple data sets can be manipulated...This free course, Data and processes in computing, will help...
Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Digital communications
Digital & Computing

Digital communications

...free course, Digital communications, will illustrate how very high data rates can be transmitted over long distances through optical fibres. You will learn how these fibres are linked, examine the technology used and assess the future direction of this continually developing area of communication...Optical-fibre communications became commercially viable in the 1970s and...
Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’
History & The Arts

Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’

...free course, Helen Langdon's 'Caravaggio', explores the biographical monograph, one of the most common forms of art history writing...Accounts of Caravaggio's life are filled with suggestions of murder and intrigue. But does knowing more about this dark artist's experiences help us to interpret his art? Or does understanding his motivations cloud their true meaning? This...