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Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through

...Management Masters pathways....Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through: Introduction - This course will help you to think about your professional educational situation and the ways in which you can develop your practices alongside others. It will provide you with a better understanding of competing values within the school system and how to identify and build upon...
Making social media work in Higher Education
Education & Development

Making social media work in Higher Education

...Introduction into Social Media Management and went to the recent tutorial? I am struggling with Assessment 2 and massively struggling with motivation. How are you all managing to keep up? I could barely understand what they were talking about.’ Udita’s social media post However, one of the other students has replied complaining about the tutor and the learning...
Birth of a drug
Science, Maths & Technology

Birth of a drug

...Introduction - This course examines how organic chemistry is used within the pharmaceutical industry to develop new drugs. You will investigate the process of drug development by following one new product through the intial process and research programme. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 3 study in Science...Birth of a drug: Learning outcomes - After...
Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
From insecurity to insecurity: Black and Ethnic Minority Europeans in the UK
Society, Politics & Law

From insecurity to insecurity: Black and Ethnic Minority Europeans in the UK

...manage to keep the benefit system in the first place? They clearly worry about their future rights to live and work in the UK. A worry which has not been addressed by the current political climate of ‘Hard Brexit’ as exemplified in recent statements by the Prime Minister which refuse to guarantee the rights of EU citizens living in the UK. While all EU citizens living...
IT in everyday life
Science, Maths & Technology

IT in everyday life

...Introduction - Whether we are aware of it or not, we are surrounded by networks through which information flows constantly. Our notions of time and location are changing – the world seems to have become a 'global village' where distance is no longer a barrier to commercial or social contact. If we live in Britain or other parts of the westernised world, it's difficult...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Learning from major cyber security incidents
Digital & Computing

Learning from major cyber security incidents

...Introduction - Many computing devices can be connected to the internet almost anywhere and at any time. As a result protecting against attacks and preventing the leak of private and confidential information has become ever more important. On top of this, the reasons behind attacks are becoming more diverse – ranging from financial gains and retaliations through to...
Introducing the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematical
History & The Arts

Introducing the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematical

...introduction to the work...[Sir Isaac Newton after John Thornhill] Sir Isaac Newton Since the ancients (as we are told by Pappus) made great account of the science of mechanics in the investigation of natural things; and the moderns, laying aside substantial forms and occult qualities, have endeavored to subject the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics, I have...
Selling Empire: Film
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Film

...Introduction. But One Family was slow-paced, and over-reliant on slightly stale nineteenth century symbols of monarchy and Empire. It was a commercial flop. With limited resources, the EMB Film Unit output initially included rehashed film donated from countries such as Canada, and short films on British products and industry. Hence there were rather mundane shorts such as...