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Picturing the family
History & The Arts

Picturing the family

...Introduction - Most of us today take photographs for our family albums. The lucky ones among us have also inherited family photographs from the past. These photographs provide another type of record that can offer insights into our family history. But what can they tell us? How can we elicit the information they hold? And how do we analyse or evaluate that information?...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Manufacturing
Science, Maths & Technology

Manufacturing

...Introduction - How are designs turned into products? What resources, materials and methods used and what set of activities that goes under the heading of 'manufacturing'? This course will introduce manufacturing as a system and will describe some of the many different ways of making products. We will illustrate how the required properties of the materials in a product...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Particle physics
Science, Maths & Technology

Particle physics

...Introduction - In this free course, Particle physics, you will be introduced to the realm of particle physics that lies at the heart of a scientific understanding of the material world. Several concepts that you may already be familiar with, including atoms and energy, will be explored. You will also look at the various types of particle reactions, and the fundamental...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Changing cities
Society, Politics & Law

Changing cities

...Introduction - This free course explores the ways in which urbanisation processes help to generate issues of public concern. It elaborates a theoretical framework of critical spatial thinking that can be used to analyse the complex ‘agency’ of urban processes in generating, identifying and resolving the myriad issues associated with contemporary urbanisation. This...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Gaelic in modern Scotland
Languages

Gaelic in modern Scotland

...introductions from Europe and beyond, all influence the way Scotland's people now speak to each other and to the rest of the world. Created with the positive encouragement of Bòrd na Gàidhlig and with support from BBC Alba, this free course, Gaelic in modern Scotland, is available in both Gaelic and English. The course has been designed to provide a resource for people...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Describing language Badge icon
Languages

Describing language

...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 start-of-course survey. Once...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The range of work with young people
Education & Development

The range of work with young people

...Introduction - In this course we will be looking at the range of settings within which practitioners work with young people. Some people reading it will have experience of working with young people in at least one setting. Others may have a more general interest in young people and may have begun to think about the ‘spaces’ within which they spend their time, and the...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
In the night sky: Orion
Science, Maths & Technology

In the night sky: Orion

...Introduction - [An image of the night sky.] Figure 1 The night sky Travel back in time and space to just before the Sun was born then move forward into the future to watch a star die. Exciting enough? Stick with us, and explore places you could never imagine, as you travel to Orion, explore the night sky and study the birth, life and death of stars. The course In Week 1,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs