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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,...
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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...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
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...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
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,...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
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...
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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...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Information security
Science, Maths & Technology

Information security

...work on the realised value of the company, called book value; that is the total value of its tangible assets: its property, computers, manufacturing plant etc. In contrast, shareholders value the things in a company that can make money, called it’s market value. So on top of the tangible assets, their interest includes the information that a company holds. For...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Living psychology: animal minds
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living psychology: animal minds

...work with animals every day. And you have happy animals, you have sad animals. It’s quite obvious that they do feel emotions. It’s just difficult sometimes to interpret the language that they’re showing you as those emotions. We look at emotions in terms of welfare. And we’re certainly looking in terms of whether animals are sad and in pain. And we have recognised...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs