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Making decisions
Money & Business

Making decisions

...study in Business...Making decisions: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: have greater insight into decision-making processes use that insight to make more effective decisions possess a range of different perspectives on what counts as an ‘effective’ decision be better equipped to understand and influence the decision-making...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
History & The Arts

John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

...skills of textual analysis...This free course, John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, concentrates on Acts 1 and 2 of John Webster's Renaissance tragedy, The Duchess of Malfi. It focuses on the representation of marriage for love and the social conflicts to which it gives rise. The course is designed to hone your skills of textual analysis....John Webster, The Duchess of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Data analysis: visualisations in Excel
Science, Maths & Technology

Data analysis: visualisations in Excel

...studying this course, you should be able to: explore the functionalities of Excel that are used for problem solving in a business context demonstrate the numeracy skills required for gathering and organising data for decision making related to a specific problem use graphical techniques (histograms and scatter diagrams) to provide a visual summary of available data...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Digital forensics
Science, Maths & Technology

Digital forensics

...study in Maths...Digital forensics: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: explain the origins of forensic science explain the difference between scientific conclusions and legal decision-making explain the role of digital forensics and the relationship of digital forensics to traditional forensic science, traditional science and the...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Passports: identity and airports
Society, Politics & Law

Passports: identity and airports

...study later in this course. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course DD308 Making social worlds...Passports: identity and airports: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the historical and sociological context of how passports became commonplace identify ways in which passport regimes are used...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Ratio, proportion and percentages
Science, Maths & Technology

Ratio, proportion and percentages

...study in Mathematics...Ratio, proportion and percentages: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: with simple ratios convert between fractions, decimals and percentages explain the meaning of ratio, proportion and percentage find percentages of different quantities calculate percentage increases and decreases...Ratio, proportion and...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
The Moon
Science, Maths & Technology

The Moon

...studying this course (even if you have no optical aid available), but don't worry if you are unable to do this. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 1 study in Science Tell us what you think! We’d love to hear from you to help us improve our free learning offering through OpenLearn by filling out this short survey...The Moon: Learning outcomes - After...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Understanding antibiotic resistance Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding antibiotic resistance

...skills. You can read more on how to study the course and about badges in the next sections. After completing this course, you will be able to: understand what antibiotics are and how they work understand how bacteria become resistant to antibiotics appreciate the issues surrounding antibiotic resistance know about the challenges in developing new antibiotics know about...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs