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Understanding research with children and young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding research with children and young people

...introduction to research with and by Children and young people. It is designed primarily for anyone with an interest in research with and by children and young people, including (but not limited to) those currently working in different areas of professional practice, and may also appeal to young people who are interested in designing their own research projects. There is...
Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare
History & The Arts

Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare

...Introduction - Access to healthcare is important to all of us. Did the arrival of state medicine in the twentieth century mean that everyone had access to good medical services? If you fell sick in 1930 where could you get treatment – from a GP, a hospital, a nurse? This course shows that in the early twentieth century, access to care was unequally divided. The rich...
Introducing consciousness
History & The Arts

Introducing consciousness

...Introduction - Consciousness is at once the most important and most baffling aspect of the mind. It is the very heart of our existence yet it is extraordinarily difficult to describe and explain. This course introduces consciousness, and the ‘hard problem’ it presents for a science of the mind. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 3 study in Arts and...
Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
How arguments are constructed and used in the Social Sciences
Society, Politics & Law

How arguments are constructed and used in the Social Sciences

...Introduction - This course will help you understand how arguments are constructed and used in the Social Sciences. The material is primarily an audio file, originally 30 minutes in length and recorded in 1998. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 1 study in Sociology...How arguments are constructed and used in the Social Sciences: Learning outcomes - After...
Starting with law
Society, Politics & Law

Starting with law

...Introduction - Law is an interesting and lively subject that touches upon all aspects of everyday life. We hope that you will enjoy this course, which provides an introduction to the fascinating topic of law. This course assumes that you have some interest in the law. You may be interested because of some direct involvement with the law, for example in buying a house, or...
Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Engendering citizenship
Society, Politics & Law

Engendering citizenship

...Introduction - This course will introduce the notion of social citizenship in relation to rights and obligations within society, with particular reference to women and disabled people. The material is primarily an audio file, originally 23 minutes in length and recorded in 1998. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 1 study in Sociology...Engendering...
Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
International relations: exploring territorial divisions
Society, Politics & Law

International relations: exploring territorial divisions

...Introduction - Different forms of international division remain at the heart of some of the most pressing issues of interest to International Relations (IR) today. Figure 1 below shows how two former empires (in this case the British and Russian Empires) expanded across Asia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and demonstrate how the practices of former imperial...
Can renewable energy sources power the world? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Can renewable energy sources power the world?

...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...