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Legal skills and debates in Scotland Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Legal skills and debates in Scotland

...family? Did you visit your doctor? Did you go away? Have you visited an exhibition? Did you take part in sport? Did you buy a coffee or take-away meal? Did you use the internet to search for information or contact friends? Have you watched catch-up TV? Have a look at the suggestions that follow, as some of these contacts with the law may also appear on your list. Travel:...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom
Society, Politics & Law

Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom

...history and has been almost entirely discredited...Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom: 2.4 Expertise - The next hurdle to admissibility is whether the individual witness is in fact an expert in the relevant area. If the witness possesses sufficient expertise, their evidence will be admissible even if the witness is not a terribly good expert. Once the...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Modelling the planets
Science, Maths & Technology

Modelling the planets

...history, something happened. We know that it lost its water but we don’t know how much water it had. For example, did Venus have enough water for the planet to be covered in oceans? Looking at Venus is also very helpful for studying planets in other solar systems. Many exoplanets are Venus-like (hot, with a thick atmosphere, slowly rotating, relatively close to their...
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Article 5 mins
53 things you never knew about OpenLearn
Education & Development

53 things you never knew about OpenLearn

...history of the Solar System in our The Magic of Meteorites hub. In our FREE course 'Astronomy with an online telescope', you get to use The Open University’s own robotic telescope facility COAST sited on the island of Tenerife. How cool is that? …And finally, for those of you with a dirty mind, we'll let you know our free course with the most hilarious title. Who says...
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Article 20 mins
DIY: Experiments with Natural Dyes
Science, Maths & Technology

DIY: Experiments with Natural Dyes

...History and Practice of 18th-Century Dyeing Fibrecrafts catalogue, available from 1 Old Portsmouth Road, Peasmarsh, Guildford, Surrey Ingamells W., Colour for Textiles: A user’s handbook, Society of Dyers and Colourists Barrow J. D., The Artful Universe, Oxford University Press A quite remarkable book that will change the way you view the world. Extremely accessible....
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Article 15 mins
How can we dismantle racism in public institutions and services?
Education & Development

How can we dismantle racism in public institutions and services?

...histories of police force development, demography, scale and cultural norms between (and within) the US and UK are evident. Rather, the intent is to discuss some similarities in terms of racism in both countries and how it manifests in policing. This discussion demonstrates that there is more work to be done in both the US and the UK to inform change. Another aim is that...
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Article 10 mins
Succeed with learning Badge icon
Education & Development

Succeed with learning

...family – although perhaps she may have taken a formal course in cooking or nutrition. Another important point which is highlighted in Angela’s story is how we are all learning all the time – it doesn’t stop!...Week 1: What is learning?: 2 Thinking about someone else’s ideas - [Peter Jarvis] Figure 4 Peter Jarvis If a topic is interesting it will usually attract...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Technology, innovation and management
Money & Business

Technology, innovation and management

...history of technological innovation and change (and its organisational equivalent) has been nothing short of remarkable. Indeed, it has long been recognised that these two forms of innovation sit at the core of capitalism and largely account for the ‘success’ of capitalist societies over other forms of economic and social relations (Harvey, 2010). Approaching this...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs