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10 incredible people whose stories you'll find on OpenLearn
History & The Arts

10 incredible people whose stories you'll find on OpenLearn

...changing women: Download your free booklet of postcards. 2: Alexander Fleming - discoverer of penicillin Transcript Who'd have thought this guy would've saved millions of people with some accidentally discovered 'mould juice'?! Sir Alexander Fleming, born in 1881, was a Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and botanist. He is best-known for discovering the antibiotic...
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Education & Development

Succeed with learning

...changed a lot. Even though I went online and found a map of the campus, I still could not find the building and the room. I asked a man for directions. He said he was the instructor for the ‘Introduction to Computers’ course, and that he would take me to the classroom. He gave me his name, which I forgot. He also asked me if I had received his introductory email. I...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
An introduction to computers and computer systems
Digital & Computing

An introduction to computers and computer systems

...changed since these first room-sized machines...Session 1: Computers and processors: 2 The parts of a computer - A computer is a machine that manipulates data following a list of instructions that have been programmed into it. Input devices are used to input data into a computer. Many of the earliest computers read their input from paper tape adapted from existing ticker...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age
History & The Arts

Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age

...changing the way humanities scholars conduct their research and share it with the world. This course will introduce you to the growing area of scholarship known as ‘digital humanities’ and explain its relevance to the study of the past and of the present. You will learn about the opportunities offered by the growing availability of digital data and about the...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Engineering: environmental fluids
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: environmental fluids

...change in height is −6.5 °C km −1. Above 11 km, the gradient is of course zero as the temperature stays constant. Calculating the height of the atmosphere at 0 °C From the above data determine the height h at which the air temperature reaches 0°C. Give your answer to 2 significant figures. Solution In Figure 1, studying the proportions of the slope part of the...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Quantitative and qualitative research in finance
Money & Business

Quantitative and qualitative research in finance

...changes to make it flow a bit better and to include some topics that we thought would help inform our understanding. So that’s often really, really useful to treat the first interviews as a kind of test of your topic guide because sometimes those early interviews throw up some issues that you will want to address before you do any more interviews. Dimitris Is this an...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?
Society, Politics & Law

From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?

...changing nature of the UK as a political and economic entity. The course reflects on a range of possible futures for the UK and its associated nations and regions. The course lasts four weeks, with approximately three hours’ study time each week. You can work through the course at your own pace, so if you have more time one week there is no problem with pushing on to...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introduction to critical criminology
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to critical criminology

...changing social world, denounced what they had come to view as the ‘mainstream criminological ideology’ (Taylor et al., 1973). It is here that the story of critical criminology begins. It is important to recognise that much of the ‘criminological project’ has been characterised by knowledges developing either in parallel – or in response to – changing social...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs