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What is Europe?
Society, Politics & Law

What is Europe?

...course looks at a range of different views on the question, contrasting different conceptions of Europeanness and outlining competing visions for the future of the EU...The European Union (EU), formed out of the ashes of the Second World War, continues to expand in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Despite the EU's growing size and significance, the question...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Introduction to analysis
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to analysis

...course is an introduction to analysis which looks at real numbers and their properties, with a particular emphasis on inequalities. Section 1 starts by revising rational numbers and their decimal representations. Then, real numbers are introduced as infinite decimals. Section 2 looks at rules for manipulating inequalities and finding the solution set of an inequality....
Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Surface water
Nature & Environment

Surface water

...course, Surface water, helps you examine the options...--- Please note: This is course is due to be archived on Monday 13th March 2023. You can study the course up until this date. For learners who have completed the course, the Statement of Participation will remain in your learner records in your OpenLearn profile. --- Water is arguably the most important physical...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Secondary learning
Education & Development

Secondary learning

...course, Secondary learning, will identify and explore some of the key issues around learning and teaching in secondary schools. Through coming to understand these issues and debates, you will reflect on and develop your practice as a secondary teacher and develop a greater awareness of how students learn and how to take account of this in your planning and in your...
Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
The social nature of being human
Society, Politics & Law

The social nature of being human

...course, The social nature of being human, will introduce you to several of the social aspects of humanity and being human. Some of these are obvious, as, during the course, you will think about crowd behaviour and consider traditional dilemmas of being in crowds. Others will be less obvious, such as the seemingly intimate and private act of charitable giving to the...
Art in Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

Art in Renaissance Venice

...course, Art in Renaissance Venice, considers the art of Renaissance Venice and how such art was determined in many ways by the city's geographical location and ethnically diverse population. Studying Venice and its art offers a challenge to the conventional notion of Renaissance art as an entirely Italian phenomenon...This free course, Art in Renaissance Venice, considers...
Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Working with charts, graphs and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

Working with charts, graphs and tables

...course, I was studying German. My ideas about what mathematics meant to me were not even considered and did not develop throughout. My next course (Third World Development) will be different, but I haven't started it yet. What we have asked you to do here is to look at your experience of mathematics in the context of your experience as a student, as well as in the past....
Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings

...course, Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings, introduces the key ideas and practices of mindfulness, describes how it is helping counselling clients and prisoners, and also looks at some of the criticisms mindfulness has received in recent years...This free course, Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings, introduces the key ideas and practices of...