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Understanding children: babies being heard
Education & Development

Understanding children: babies being heard

...Introduction - In this course you will find out some of the things very young babies can do. You will also discover how babies can contribute to family life and relationships from birth. You will look at what they need from other adults and children, and what they can learn. Using a video extract, you will observe and listen to young babies in action, and learn from them....
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Microgravity: living on the International Space Station Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Microgravity: living on the International Space Station

...manage your digital badges online from My OpenLearn. In addition, you can download and print your OpenLearn statement of participation - which also displays your Open University badge. The Open University would really appreciate a few minutes of your time to tell us about yourself and your expectations for the course before you begin, in our optional start-of-course...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Climate change: transitions to sustainability
Nature & Environment

Climate change: transitions to sustainability

...Introduction - Human societies have to take urgent action to end their dependence on fossil fuels. They also have to prepare to adapt to the uncertainties inherent in global environmental changes, particularly climatic ones. We have to alter the whole path of our development and decision making in order to make our societies both environmentally adaptable and sustainable....
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Women transforming classical music
History & The Arts

Women transforming classical music

...Introduction - Research completed by Donne Women in Music in 2024 found that 92.5 per cent of orchestral repertoire performed worldwide in the 2023/24 concert season was written by men, while music written by women made up just 7.5 per cent. (Donne Women in Music’s research was based on an examination of the repertoire presented by 111 orchestras based across 30...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Using Turnitin effectively: building integrity into your writing
Education & Development

Using Turnitin effectively: building integrity into your writing

...Introduction - Welcome to this short course on using Turnitin formatively. This course is designed for students, particularly those who are new to university study or returning to academic work after a break. It will also be useful for anyone in higher education who wishes to understand how Turnitin can be used to develop good academic practice, strengthen writing skills,...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Secondary learning
Education & Development

Secondary learning

...Introduction - In this free course, Secondary learning, you will examine some of the key debates and issues around knowledge, learning and pedagogy. You will have your own preconceptions about knowledge, learning, intelligence and the role of the teacher, and it is important that you are open to examining your views and to considering the evidence behind new developments....
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Nationalism, self-determination and secession
Society, Politics & Law

Nationalism, self-determination and secession

...introduction to studying political ideas by looking at how people who see themselves as nations challenge the existing order to assert their right to a state of their own...What makes a 'nation' and what makes peoples strive for nationhood? This free course, Nationalism, self-determination and secession, will provide you with an introduction to studying political ideas by...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
‘There Were Four of Us’
History & The Arts

‘There Were Four of Us’

...managed to prevent mentions of herself in other biographies and memoirs published at the time. She was happy to be forgotten. In the two hundred years since, she has been reinstated in the many retellings of that night, in both fact and fiction. However, she doesn’t emerge well from many of them, being depicted as a talentless hanger-on or spurned lover. She is often a...
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