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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....
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...
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,...
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’...
Water for life
Nature & Environment

Water for life

...Introduction - This course is an introduction to chemistry concepts, using water as the main illustration. Much of the course is devoted to exploring the smallest water particle - a water molecule - what it is and how it gives rise to the particular properties of water. The course also explains powers of ten and scientific notation, which are a convenient way of...
Level 1: Introductory 15 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...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004
History & The Arts

The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004

...introduction of a new category of drink – a drink that had origins in a culture that originally posed a threat to alcohol companies. I didn’t go to raves: as a Kentish schoolgirl I had limited desire, and even more limited means, to buy illegal drugs and dance all night in a dark field. Still, rave culture was part of my generation’s adolescence, even if the closest...
Energy resources: solar energy
Nature & Environment

Energy resources: solar energy

...Introduction - Energy from sources other than fossil or nuclear fuels is to a large extent free of the concerns about environmental effects and renewability that characterise those two sources. Each alternative source supplies energy continually, whether or not we use it. Many alternative sources of energy have been used in simple ways for millennia, e.g. wind and water...
Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs