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Forensic science and fingerprints
Health, Sports & Psychology

Forensic science and fingerprints

...human fingers has ridges which form patterns that are unique to an individual. Question 2 What do forensic scientists mean by 'individualisation'? Answer Individualisation is the process of unambiguously connecting a single individual or object to a crime scene. The use of fingerprints in the identification of criminals is the most frequently applied technique in forensic...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
An introduction to crime and criminology
Society, Politics & Law

An introduction to crime and criminology

...human trafficking deaths in custody prison studies and prison abolitionism immigration detention social housing and homelessness expressions of crime and ‘the criminal’ in popular culture. In the next section you will explore some of the areas in which some of the criminologists who work at The Open University specialise in...An introduction to crime and criminology:...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Studying mammals: Life in the trees
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Life in the trees

...resources available for exploitation - e.g. insects, fruit, leaves and bark - located in different parts of the profile. Differences in the lifestyles and feeding preferences of tree squirrels reflect their occupation of particular niches, and may reduce, though not eliminate, competition between species for these available resources. This is an example of niche...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Learning from major cyber security incidents
Digital & Computing

Learning from major cyber security incidents

...humans or a machine (this document is an example of plaintext). ‘Plaintext’ is a historic term predating computers, when encryption was only used for hardcopy text; nowadays it is associated with many formats including music, movies and computer programs. Ciphertext is the encrypted data. A cipher is the mathematics (or algorithm) responsible for turning plaintext...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Starting with psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Starting with psychology

...humans is ourselves (Boring, 1950, p. 56). Humans are a puzzle, one that is complex, subtle and multi-layered, and it gets even more complicated as we evolve over time and change within different contexts. When answering the question 'what makes us who we are?' psychologists put forward a range of explanations about why people feel, think and behave the way they do. Just...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
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Education & Development

Succeed with learning

...Resources Centre’ and that it was filled with dozens of brightly lit computers. My instructor (I still could not remember his name) led me over to one corner. ‘Here’s your group,’ he said. And he started to introduce me to a dozen people. ‘This is Avril, this is Jade, this is Zoë, this is Steve …’ I was feeling worse and worse. I had forgotten the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Bill Hare - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill Hare - Stories of Change

...resources, they need finance, they need expertise. For these countries they will want to know this deal will deliver to us maybe not enough but enough to get moving, the resources, the technology, expertise that we need to start dealing with the problem and that will need to be real and deliverable for them to say, ‘Actually, this works for us.’ RH: Let me talk to you...
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Audio 5 mins
History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past

...resource, and explores the types of evidence historians have uncovered about the history of reading. Tutorial 2 (Red_2) and Tutorial 3 (Red_3) look at how this evidence can be used to tell us about the reception of a literary text and to demonstrate the impact of a writers reading on their literary output. UK RED is a resource built and maintained at The Open...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs