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Critically exploring psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Critically exploring psychology

...work your way through the course you will learn what critical thinking is, and why it is important to use in the study of psychology. In particular, it will help you to think about how to use it when doing independent research. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course D810 Critically exploring psychology 1 and D811 Critically Exploring...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 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,...
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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
Understanding devolution in Wales
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding devolution in Wales

...work through this course, you’ll come to understand these phases much better. Five broad phases of devolution: administrative devolution (1964-1999) executive devolution with secondary law-making powers (1999-2007) executive devolution with enhanced secondary powers (2007-2011) legislative devolution under a ‘conferred powers’ model (2011-2018) legislative...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
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...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 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