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The economics of flood insurance
Society, Politics & Law

The economics of flood insurance

...free course was written by the DD226 module team. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Introduction to music theory 1: form
History & The Arts

Introduction to music theory 1: form

...free course, you will learn how to identify musical form through close engagement with recorded of music, and studying examples of folk, popular, and classical music from several world traditions. You will explore a number of methods of representing form, including alphabetical designations (e.g., AABA), genre-specific terminology (e.g., terms such as ‘verse’ and...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Encouraging book talk in the school library
Education & Development

Encouraging book talk in the school library

...free course, Encouraging book talk in the school library, offers ideas and activities to engage pupils in discussing books. It is aimed at librarians, teaching assistants and other adults working with pupils in school libraries...As adults we sometimes struggle to justify our feelings about particular books, but children are quite clear about what they like and don't...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears
Health, Sports & Psychology

The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears

...free course, The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears, we'll examine why this controversy took on such a life of its own and why parents still agonise about the vaccine...A decade ago, the possibility of a link between the MMR vaccine and autism hit the media. Fear of the vaccine spread rapidly and, despite an almost unanimous consensus that the claim was unfounded,...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)
Education & Development

Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)

...free course was written by Jeremy Wilcox, adapted from the OpenLearn course Inclusive education: knowing what we mean. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Approaching poetry
History & The Arts

Approaching poetry

...free course, Approaching poetry, is designed to develop the analytical skills you need for a more in-depth study of literary texts. You will learn about rhythm, alliteration, rhyme, poetic inversion, voice and line lengths and endings. You will examine poems that do not rhyme and learn how to compare and contrast poetry...Do you want to get more out of your reading of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Children and young people’s participation
Education & Development

Children and young people’s participation

...free course, Children and young people's participation, emphasises that the adoption of an integrated approach to participation by different sectors of the children's workforce is of crucial importance...Listening to children is a first step in the participation agenda, which is reasonably well established. By contrast, enabling children to share in decision making lags...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Group theory
Science, Maths & Technology

Group theory

...free course consolidates and builds on group theory studied at OU level 2 or equivalent. Section 1 describes how to construct a group called the direct product of two given groups, and then describes certain conditions under which a group can be regarded as the direct product of its subgroups. Section 2 describes the key properties of the structure of cyclic groups....
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs