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Returning to STEM Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Returning to STEM

...Adapted from Career planning and job-seeking workbook, p. 30, Open University Careers Service.) Make a note of which were the most important values for you. Did any of them surprise you? You may want to come back to these when you start to develop your action plan towards the end of the course...Week 1: The story so far: 4 Managing your digital footprint - The previous...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Assessing risk in engineering, work and life
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing risk in engineering, work and life

...adapted extract from the Open University course T193 Engineering: frameworks, analysis, production...Assessing risk in engineering, work and life: Learning outcomes - After studying this course you should be able to: understand what is meant by risk carry out a basic risk assessment understand how accidents can be caused use probability to assess risk and minimise the...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Watching the weather
Nature & Environment

Watching the weather

...adapted, and a little way beyond to higher and to lower frequencies. Visible light is only a tiny proportion of the whole. Frequency is measured in hertz (Hz). The Earth is bathed in electromagnetic radiation from the Sun at a variety of frequencies though visible light is in the frequency range that reaches the Earth's surface most readily. Much of the incoming UV...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
National identity in Britain and Ireland, 1780–1840
History & The Arts

National identity in Britain and Ireland, 1780–1840

...adapted extract from the Open University course A225 The British Isles and the modern world, 1789–1914...National identity in Britain and Ireland, 1780–1840: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand how the concepts of ‘nation’ and ‘nationalism’ emerged during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Applying to study for a PhD in psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Applying to study for a PhD in psychology

...adapted from: Lightspring / Shutterstock Section 4: Photo by Polina Zimmerman from Pexels Section 4.1: Photo by Pixabay from Pexels Pixabay Section 4.1: Image by Sorbetto; Getty Images Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Particle physics
Science, Maths & Technology

Particle physics

...adapted extract from the Open University course SM123 Physics and space...Particle physics: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: recognise and name the six flavours of lepton and the six flavours of quark. understand that all leptons and quarks have corresponding antiparticles appreciate that quarks and antiquarks combine to form baryons,...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?
Education & Development

Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?

...adaptive and plastic, so spending lots of time focusing on objects close-up will make the eyes more likely to be near-sighted. “The eyeball will grow longer to compensate for the prolonged near stress,” Liu says. She doesn’t have any evidence-based recommendations for a time limit on use of devices, but says “frequent breaks from near work” are very important....
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Article 5 mins
Note taking in relation to the Social Sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Note taking in relation to the Social Sciences

...adaptable. Some chapters, some sources of material may lend themselves to the use of more highlighters, or more notes than others and you have to vary your approach accordingly, but it is important whatever you do you look at your material in an active rigorous way as opposed to sitting back and thinking that it is all going to come out simply by looking at it. John That...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr