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The meaning of crime
Society, Politics & Law

The meaning of crime

...Introduction - ‘Tough on the causes of crime.’ A famous phrase, but what is crime? This unit examines how we as a ‘society’ define crime. You will look at the fear that is generated within communities and what evidence is available to support claims that are made about crime rates. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 1 study in Sociology...The meaning...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...Introduction - This free course, Environment: treading lightly on the Earth, focuses on the problem of greenhouse gas emissions, especially carbon dioxide (CO2), and explores what you can do to lighten those emissions to help reduce the rate of climate change. You will assess your ‘carbon footprint’ and see what actions you and, if relevant, other household members...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows
Nature & Environment

Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows

...Introduction - The scientific theory of plate tectonics suggests that at least some of the Arctic lands were once tropical. Since then the continents have moved and ice has changed the landscape. This free course, Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows, will concentrate on evidence from the last 800 000 years using information collected from ice cores from...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Meiosis and mitosis
Science, Maths & Technology

Meiosis and mitosis

...Introduction - This course looks at how units if inheritance are transmitted from one generation to the next. First you will look at what happens to the chromosomes of animals and plants during the process of sexual reproduction. Then you will examine how genes are transmitted in particular patterns from generation to generation. These two approaches combine to illustrate...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
National identity in Britain and Ireland, 1780–1840
History & The Arts

National identity in Britain and Ireland, 1780–1840

...Introduction - In the 1780s there were two distinct, but connected, political entities to be found in the British Isles: the Kingdom of Ireland and the Kingdom of Great Britain. In January 1801, these kingdoms joined together to form a new state, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. However, political union did not necessarily mean that all of the people...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle
History & The Arts

Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle

...Introduction In an (in)famous postscript, Gilles Deleuze traces the emergence of a society of control, whose passive danger is jamming, and whose active danger lies in piracy and viruses. Media jamming and piracy, hacktivism and viruses are all rampant today: the internet is their natural breeding ground, to the point of becoming trivial occurrences in everyday life....
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Article 15 mins
Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?
Education & Development

Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?

...introduction of handheld devices to kids.” In our early years, our eyeballs are very adaptive and plastic, so spending lots of time focusing on objects close-up will make the eyes more likely to be near-sighted. “The eyeball will grow longer to compensate for the prolonged near stress,” Liu says. She doesn’t have any evidence-based recommendations for a time limit...
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Article 5 mins
Looking at, describing and identifying objects
History & The Arts

Looking at, describing and identifying objects

...Introduction - This OpenLearn course concentrates on describing objects. You will be reading and writing descriptions and considering why descriptions are important. Throughout the course you will be exploring how things and words written about things are inextricably linked. You will focus on an object in isolation from the society which made it and work on developing...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs