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Citizen science and global biodiversity Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Citizen science and global biodiversity

...world. Finally, the course concludes by exploring the impact citizen scientists are having on recording biodiversity around the globe...This free course, Citizen science and global biodiversity, deals with the importance of biodiversity and explores how anyone can contribute to and be involved in identifying and recording wildlife, as a citizen scientist. It looks at what...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Exploring depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring depression

...world at every plunge, and finished knowing then.' We know depression through metaphors. Emily Dickinson was able to convey it in language. Goya, in an image. Half the purpose of art is to describe such iconic states. As for me, I had always thought myself tough. One of the people who could survive if I had been sent to a concentration camp. In 1991, I had a series of...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Welsh history and its sources
History & The Arts

Welsh history and its sources

...World - This chapter from Post-War Wales is by Christopher Harvie of the University of Tübingen, Germany. Unlike the other volumes, the chapters in Post-War Wales did not include ‘Discussion’ or ‘Debating the Evidence’ sections, so the chapter consists of Christopher Harvie's essay and sources. Click below to open ‘Wales and the Wider World’ (17 pages). Make...
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Level 1: Introductory 25 hrs
Taking your first steps into higher education Badge icon
Education & Development

Taking your first steps into higher education

...world. (Gareth Dunn, Edinburgh) I’ve got a few unmade beds for sale to interested bidders. In fact for the right price I’ll throw in the stroppy teenage occupant. He can reduce any tidy room to the state of Tracey’s bedroom if left to his own devices for a day or two. (Karen Wood, Lincolnshire) (BBC News, 2004) In Activity 1, you were asked to consider whether...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Surface water
Nature & Environment

Surface water

...world that's experiencing climate change. This free course, Surface water, helps you examine the options...--- Please note: This is course is due to be archived on Monday 13th March 2023. You can study the course up until this date. For learners who have completed the course, the Statement of Participation will remain in your learner records in your OpenLearn profile. ---...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Developing employability through sport and physical activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Developing employability through sport and physical activity

...world of work. It’s like a game of connecting the dots, and we’re here to help you make those connections! GEORGI The few skills that I’ve chosen as part of the OU Employability Framework, one would be self management and resilience. I’ve definitely had to manage myself well as an athlete, and that impacts how I use that in the modern world and employability. And...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Life in the Palaeozoic
Nature & Environment

Life in the Palaeozoic

...World. Before going any further, click on 'View document' below and read pages 58-61 from Douglas Palmer's Atlas of the Prehistoric World. View document At the start of the Cambrian Period, body fossils with hard shelly parts became abundant for the first time. Actually, the very first evidence of preservable hard parts comes from some tiny fossils, including tubes made...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
The meaning of crime
Society, Politics & Law

The meaning of crime

...world? Is it against the law to fail to honour one's mother or father? For an orthodox Muslim consuming alcohol is a sin, but it is hardly a crime codified by UK law. Is it always against the law to take another life? What about conduct in wartime or assisting euthanasia? The reason that the OED's definition raises more questions than it answers is that the definition...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs