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Electromagnetism: testing Coulomb’s law
Science, Maths & Technology

Electromagnetism: testing Coulomb’s law

...Introduction - Electrical charges can be positive or negative. Charges of the same type repel each other, and charges of different types attract each other. For example, static electricity can cause hair to stand on end as similarly charged strands of hair all try to avoid each other, while in lightning a build up of negatively charged electrons moves rapidly to a region...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Textiles in Ghana
History & The Arts

Textiles in Ghana

...Introduction - This course looks at the way meanings and values are assigned to textiles. You will examine how a piece of cloth can define wealth, status, and, in the past, office. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 2 study in Arts and Humanities...Textiles in Ghana: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate an...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Beginners’ Spanish: food and drink
Languages

Beginners’ Spanish: food and drink

...Introduction - This free OpenLearn course, Beginners' Spanish: food and drink, requires some basic knowledge of Spanish. You will be able to use some basic vocabulary relating to food, drinks, meals, quantities and measures. You will also have the opportunity to practise how to order a meal, go shopping and pay for food. You will listen to Spanish speakers in a variety of...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Library of Alexandria
History & The Arts

Library of Alexandria

...Introduction - This OpenLearn free course encourages you to reflect upon and critically assess the factors that shape what we know about antiquity, as well as offering some insight into how different approaches to antiquity – whether through texts, material culture, or modern receptions – can work together. It is important to be aware of how studying the ancient world...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution
History & The Arts

Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution

...Introduction - This free course, Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution, will introduce you to issues around the sexual revolution and how this, alongside other contemporary social revolutions of the 1960s, impacted upon American female rock musician Janis Joplin (1943-1970). You will investigate the extent to which the contemporary sexual revolution brought about greater...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
The American Civil Rights Movement
History & The Arts

The American Civil Rights Movement

...Introduction - In the mid-1950s a mass movement developed in opposition to racial discrimination in the United States. This struggle reached its zenith in the early 1960s, when a series of non-violent demonstrations forced the federal government to enact legislation, overturning a deeply entrenched system of racial segregation across the southern states of the USA. The...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Engineering: The challenge of temperature
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The challenge of temperature

...Introduction - In this course we examine one factor that very often seems to be found skulking around close to problems and solutions: temperature. Almost whatever we do, wherever we are, temperature changes. Stay in the same spot and you'll find daytime and night-time temperatures can be markedly different. You may even find significant changes in temperature during the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 40 hrs
Napoleonic paintings
History & The Arts

Napoleonic paintings

...Introduction - If you visit the Louvre museum in Paris and choose the route leading to the Denon wing, you will find on the first floor two vast galleries, the Daru room and the Mollien room, devoted to late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century French painting. Although they also contain many comparatively small works, notably portraits, these galleries are dominated...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs