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Beginners’ Spanish: food and drink
Languages

Beginners’ Spanish: food and drink

...learn skills for coping with extended listening. Cultural notes also explain about customs to do with meals and food shopping in Spain. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course L194 Portales: beginners' Spanish...Beginners’ Spanish: food and drink: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: take part in...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Climate justice for the next generation
Education & Development

Climate justice for the next generation

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the importance of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) recognise the links between children’s rights and climate justice understand the impacts of climate change on children and young people and recognise the reasons why they are at the forefront of climate...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Working with charts, graphs and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

Working with charts, graphs and tables

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: reflect on existing skills and mathematical history, set up strategies to cope with mathematics and assess which areas need improving understand the following mathematical concepts, through instruction, worked examples and practice activities: reflecting on mathematics; reading articles for...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Introduction to making political and social change
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to making political and social change

...learning opportunities for all’ SDG 10 ‘Reduced inequalities’ SDG 16 ‘Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels’ [SDG 4, 10 and 16] [SDG 4, 10 and 16]...Introduction to making political and social change: Introduction - Written...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Introduction to bookkeeping and accounting
Money & Business

Introduction to bookkeeping and accounting

Learn about the essential numerical skills required for accounting and bookkeeping. This free course, Introduction to bookkeeping and accounting, explains the fundamental rules of double-entry bookkeeping and how they are used to produce the balance sheet and the profit and loss account...Learn about the essential numerical skills required for accounting and...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears
Health, Sports & Psychology

The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand more of the scientific factors that relate to the dispute about the safety of the MMR vaccine in the UK assess the strength of arguments for and against the use of the MMR vaccine show how issues of risk, trust, communication and media representation of science and medicine have a strong...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Oliver Sacks: "Don't skip the footnotes"
Health, Sports & Psychology

Oliver Sacks: "Don't skip the footnotes"

...learn from the life of Sacks The majority of Sacks’ adult life is marked by two distinct periods. The first, as a young man, is characterised by its vigour: motorcycling across America, weightlifting, experimenting with drugs, and youthful lust and love. His later life, however, is consumed by a sense of vocation. Most of Sacks’ working life comprises a 35-year period...
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Article 5 mins
Stories from Vienna: 6 key figures
Languages

Stories from Vienna: 6 key figures

...learning. Together with a co-worker she then founded the reading and debating club, Libertas, and later a club for social-democrat girls and women (“Verein sozialdemokratischer Frauen und Mädchen”). She was the first woman to be elected councillor for Favoriten, a traditional workers’ area of Vienna, and remained on the Council of Vienna until her death in 1924....
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Article 10 mins