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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
Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health Badge icon
Education & Development

Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health

...work in progress and can be variable in success. Research undertaken by The Open University has revealed that learners experiencing mental ill-health are very reticent to ask for support from their educator (Lister et al., 2021). Learners reported that knowing their educators were supportive and genuinely cared about their mental health needs made a big difference to...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Understanding autism Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding autism

...work. ILONA ROTH: Welcome to this free course exploring autism, and how it affects the lives of individuals and their families. Over the years that I've had the privilege to work on autism, insights have improved markedly with some positive outcomes for the lives of autistic people. Yet, despite all the progress, there are still huge gaps in understanding. And most...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Exploring economics: the secret life of t-shirts
Society, Politics & Law

Exploring economics: the secret life of t-shirts

...work alone as individuals, or perhaps within a household, or these days, a person selling goods via eBay. Often sellers are organisations such as businesses. A business may be a local takeaway, or may operate in multiple locations across the globe; both are, in economic terms, referred to as firms. In this course you will focus on firms as the main economic agents...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Panic attacks: what they are and what to do about them
Health, Sports & Psychology

Panic attacks: what they are and what to do about them

...work, personal relationships and social life – in fact most areas of daily living. Often they live in fear of having more attacks, worry constantly about what the attacks are and what might happen as a result of them, and change how they live to try and avoid future attacks – e.g. by not going into public places. Unfortunately, fear of a panic attack may become such a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs