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Children and young people: food and food marketing
Education & Development

Children and young people: food and food marketing

...work from Childhood and Youth Studies and Psychology to challenge the rhetoric of 'healthy choices' and consider why it's essential to go beyond the individual to understand systems and environments that currently fail children and their health. The following video explores the concepts covered in this course....Children and young people: food and food marketing:...
Meiosis and mitosis
Science, Maths & Technology

Meiosis and mitosis

...work with maize (Zea mays), alternatively called corn (sweetcorn, or corn on the cob), which occurs throughout the world as an extremely important commercial crop plant, and which is used extensively in genetic research. We can also study the inheritance of characters at the level of the genotype. In this section we will jump between these two levels, and in so doing we...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Children’s perspectives on play
Education & Development

Children’s perspectives on play

...work? GIRL 2 [INAUDIBLE] GIRL 1 Do you like mine? I like yours. Mine – do you think mine is really pretty? Oh, thanks. GIRL 2 Grace? GIRL 1 Yeah? GIRL 2 [INAUDIBLE] mix up colours? GIRL 1 Yeah. Do you? GIRL 2 Yeah. GIRL 1 And me. I'm getting white, purple, green, orange, purple, blue, red. GIRL 2 Green, orange, purple, blue, [INAUDIBLE]. GIRL 1 White, pink, blue,...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four
Society, Politics & Law

George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four

...work and writings of George Orwell through a study of his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984). By studying the book, well-known for its depiction of a totalitarian state, and the techniques, language and oppressive methods used by such states, you will gain a wider understanding of the meaning of totalitarianism. The course will also explore the influences on Orwell, the...
An introduction to design engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to design engineering

...work. The complexity that people bring to design problems is introduced, along with some basic methods of dealing with such complexity...This free course, An introduction to design engineering, looks at the way in which engineers use ideas and approaches from the discipline of design thinking to inform their work. The complexity that people bring to design problems is...
Approaches to software development
Science, Maths & Technology

Approaches to software development

...works as expected, even though it has not changed physically (it is not broken). The assembly of components that forms a system does something, it carries out some process. This process will work on inputs, carry out transformations and produce outputs in order to achieve a goal. If you view your body as a system, it consists of organs, it takes oxygen and food as inputs,...
Introducing music research
History & The Arts

Introducing music research

...works and their composers to embrace a wide range of musical styles and activities, as well as adopting theoretical and methodological approaches from a broad range of disciplines. Musicology is not just focused on musical texts (i.e. notated music) but includes all the practices, ideas and cultural contexts surrounding music and its production and reception. In this...
Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Icarus: entering the world of myth
History & The Arts

Icarus: entering the world of myth

...working on one short mythical narrative, the death of Icarus. One aim of this course is to introduce you to the Roman poet Ovid, a crucially important figure in the history of classical mythology. Very few Graeco-Roman mythic narratives escaped Ovid’s attention, even if some crop up in unexpected places and only feature by brief allusion. Sampling Ovid in this OpenLearn...