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Exploring the boundaries between religion and culture
History & The Arts

Exploring the boundaries between religion and culture

...free course, Exploring the boundaries between religion and culture, engages with questions about the relationship between religion and culture. Are they different things or synonyms that emphasise different ways of looking at the same phenomena? The course uses ‘either/or or both/and’ to point to those possibilities for understanding how religion and culture relate to...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Information security
Science, Maths & Technology

Information security

...free course begins by explaining why information security and its management are important for any modern organisation and to every individual. You need to be familiar with an organisation, such as your employer, to study this course...Information security underpins the commercial viability and profitability of enterprises of all sizes and the effectiveness of public...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Diagramming for development 1: bounding realities
Digital & Computing

Diagramming for development 1: bounding realities

...free course that introduces you to the systems diagramming techniques of Rich pictures, Spray diagrams and Systems maps. Using a case study project based in Africa, the course illustrates the use of powerful use of systems diagramming for international development management. This is a companion course to Diagramming for development 2: exploring...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Free resources for a safer online experience
Digital & Computing

Free resources for a safer online experience

Safer Internet Day is celebrated on 11 February, and Cyber Security Awareness Month takes place in October. To mark these events, we've pulled together some of our top FREE courses on cyber security, interactives on safe sharing and cyberbullying, and resources on keeping your money safe from scams.
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Article 15 hrs 28 mins
My career goal: Marketing
Money & Business

My career goal: Marketing

...now. Take a look at all Open University courses. If you are new to university level study, find out more about the types of qualifications we offer, including our entry level Access courses and Certificates. Not ready for University study? Then browse over 1000 free courses on OpenLearn and sign up to our newsletter to hear about new free ......
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Article 20 mins
Rugby World Cup 2015
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rugby World Cup 2015

Learn more as you enjoy the 2015 Rugby World Cup...[rugby world cup, Thames, Tower bridge] As the UK hosts the 2015 Rugby World Cup, discover all the different ways in which sport impacts our lives and explore the Open University's sports and fitness modules and qualifications by trying a free course.
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Article 5 mins
Historical perspectives on race
History & The Arts

Historical perspectives on race

...free course, Historical perspectives on race, will introduce you to ideas and scholarship dealing with the construction of race, and help you to start exploring people’s lived experiences of race through a set of case studies from the late eighteenth century onwards...Race is not biological. It is a social construction. Yet we know that in our contemporary world and in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?

...free course, Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?, explores the extent to which a person's 'lifestyle' impacts on their health and wellbeing. It also examines how non-lifestyle related factors – in particular social, economic, cultural and political dimensions – influence a person's health...This free course, Exploring health: is your lifestyle really...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs