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Succeed with maths: part 2 Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 2

...Introduction - Welcome to the first week of Succeed with maths – Part 2. The first two weeks of this course will focus on measurement and the units that are used to communicate this. People use numbers to solve a wide variety of different problems, including when designing buildings, navigating and working out the fuel consumption of an aircraft. These examples all use...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing Homer's Iliad
History & The Arts

Introducing Homer's Iliad

...Introduction - The Iliad and the Odyssey, the two epic ancient Greek poems attributed to Homer, are widely considered to be foundational texts in Western literature. Yet, the poems contain many features that seem unusual or just plain weird to the modern reader. In order for you to be able to read and better understand the poems, you will be introduced to some of the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Studying mammals: A winning design
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: A winning design

...Introduction - Mammals come in a bewildering variety of shapes and sizes and yet all of the 4700 or so species have some characteristics in common. Indeed, it's the existence of these common features that justifies the inclusion of all such diverse types within the single taxonomic group (or class) called the Mammalia. This is the first in a series of units about studying...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Discovering music: the blues
History & The Arts

Discovering music: the blues

...Introduction - This free course, Discovering music: the blues, will introduce you to a musical tradition with roots in the nineteenth century but is still relevant to making music today. You will learn about how the lyrics of blues songs reflect the social environment in which they were created, and about the musical techniques that underpin the structures of blues songs....
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course
Languages

Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course

...introduction to the Chinese language, its scripts and sounds, and how words are formed. You will hear short conversations where people greet each other and introduce themselves, and learn how to count from one to ten. You’ll learn different ways of saying your name and greeting people, as well as give your telephone number. This OpenLearn course is introductory material...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences
Education & Development

Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences

...Introduction - Ethics is an established area of academic interest, but it is only fairly recently that the relevance of ethics to Information and Computer Sciences (ICS) started to emerge clearly outside philosophical studies. Professional bodies in Engineering and ICS have begun to require, as a condition for accreditation, the study of ethics-related topics, and,...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs
Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing
Money & Business

Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing

...Introduction - Everyone needs a place they call home. If you buy, it is likely to be the most expensive thing you ever purchase. If you take out a mortgage or decide to rent rather than buy, the mortgage instalments or rent payments are likely to be among your largest monthly outgoings. Since putting a roof over one’s head accounts for a good deal of most households’...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...Introduction - [Described image] Figure 1 By ‘birth is a lottery’ we mean that how, when and where you are born, grow up and live is so profoundly and widely unequal and that these inequalities will shape your whole life. So being born with a disability, for example, will be experienced very differently depending on when and where you are born. One viewpoint says that...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs