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Gene testing
Science, Maths & Technology

Gene testing

...communication’, and ‘good decision-making’? For example, should pre-natal diagnosis be assessed in terms of the number of tests carried out and pregnancies terminated (which is an option if a pre-natal test indicates an affected fetus)? This would provide administrators with useful numbers, but has been criticized as forcing counsellors to see success in terms of...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Listening for form in popular music
History & The Arts

Listening for form in popular music

...communicating form – through the use of specialist terms (such as ‘chorus’ and ‘bridge’), alphabetic designations (for example AABA), and visual diagrams. It also considers how the form of a song works with its lyrics to create meaning...This free course, Listening for form in popular music, explores form, or how music is organised in time. It looks at three...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Critical criminology and the social sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Critical criminology and the social sciences

...communication and memory to thought and emotion. Psychology has a strong focus on individual behaviour, although many psychologists are also interested in the ways in which we function in social groups and how social organisation influences our behaviour. Psychologists study problems of mental health, but also study normal human functioning. This includes how memory,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Getting started with French 2
Languages

Getting started with French 2

...communication short courses. You can study a wide range of language and language related subjects with us anywhere in the world, in any time zone, whatever your motivation – leisure, professional development or academic. It’s the one stop shop for engaging with languages, professional communication and intercultural dialogue. Our short courses allow us to be agile and...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Creating open educational resources
Education & Development

Creating open educational resources

...community is more important than resources, though? Because, from my point of view, it’s like I want as many people as possible to be coming to that place to share their knowledge. And to contribute, to build up a sort of shared resources, shared knowledges. And to sort of build that knowledge community together. PRESENTER: Yes. It’s very important. I’ll come back...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Introduction to UK immigration law and becoming an immigration adviser
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to UK immigration law and becoming an immigration adviser

...communities and their access to justice. Edwin Parks Edwin is a Senior Lecturer in Law at The Open University and has written a wide range of courses, including materials for OpenLearn, the LLB and Executive Education. He is an international practitioner and experienced OU tutor. Liz Moody [Described image] Liz is Director of Executive Education, which is the part of the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Environmental management and organisations
Nature & Environment

Environmental management and organisations

...community. It is important to add a note of caution here in that ‘management’ tends to imply that there is a known procedure, administrative process or skill set that can be used to control, organise or direct resources for some purpose. Whether these procedures and skills are known and available, and whether some environmental issues can be controlled is debatable....
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Desmond Morris - Earth In Vision
Nature & Environment

Desmond Morris - Earth In Vision

...communicate with one another and I want to put all this on film.’ They said, ‘That’s going to take ages.’ I said, ‘Well, yes, it’s a lengthy job to make films like this.’ They said, ‘But we’ve got to go on the air, couldn’t you do a half-hour live programme for us now?’ I said, ‘Well, that wasn’t really what I came to do, ‘cause I can’t show...
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Video 1 hr 40 mins