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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
An introduction to artificial intelligence
Education & Development

An introduction to artificial intelligence

...study enabling the development of intercultural communication skills. Learners can mix and match the short courses and study more than one course at a time. Once this course is complete you will be directed to OpenLearn’s hub for language content where you will be able to build on your newly found language skills. Now that you’re fully prepared, it’s time to start...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Animals at the extremes: polar biology
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: polar biology

...study in Science...Animals at the extremes: Polar biology: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: define and use, or recognise definitions and applications of each of the bold terms outline the special features of the polar regions as a habitat and list some contrasts between the Arctic and the Antarctic describe some effects of daylength...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
What happens to you when you read?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens to you when you read?

...studying this course, you should be able to: understand some of the ways in which reading books can potentially transform you understand more about the psychological processes happening when you read demonstrate familiarity with the positive impacts of reading on mental wellbeing in some distressing times in history...What happens to you when you read?: 1 Stories: what do...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
The emergence of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus
Health, Sports & Psychology

The emergence of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus

...Study Group of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) has proposed naming this virus Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV). MERS-CoV is provisional until ratified by the ICTV. The closest phylogenetic neighbors to MERS-CoV are putative bat coronaviruses in China (BtCoV-HKU4 and BtCoV-HKU5), the Netherlands (BtCoV/VM314/2008}, and a...
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Article 5 mins
Doping in rugby union: a case of papering over the cracks?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Doping in rugby union: a case of papering over the cracks?

...can rugby address the issue of doping at all levels. To learn more about sports and fitness, find videos, articles, games and free courses on OpenLearn. If you're interested in studying Sports and Fitness with the Open University, explore more courses and qualifications we offer in this subject area. This article was first published on the OU Sports & Fitness blog....
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Article 5 mins
Keeping the spark of the 60s alive: Neil Young and a sense of place
History & The Arts

Keeping the spark of the 60s alive: Neil Young and a sense of place

...Studies has just published Neil Young: American Traveller, the first book to systematically focus on the importance of place and travel in the songwriter’s music, films, memoirs, and social activism. The book claims that travel is more important to Neil Young than to most other musicians. As a boy growing up in Canada in the 1950s Young showed an early fascination with...
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Article 5 mins
Assessing the Future of Artificial Intelligence
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing the Future of Artificial Intelligence

...studied an OU course, the guidance provided on how to submit a response to the inquiry bears much similarity to the process of how to submit an assessment to an OU course.) Some questions are designed to assess specific matters of knowledge, such as identifying what equation to use to solve a particularly mathematical, engineering or scientific questions, and then...
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Article 10 mins