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Introducing public health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing public health

...Introduction - This free course, Introducing public health, uses several activities to introduce two important public health issues: factors that influence health and ill-health; and the scope of public health work. Factors influencing health, or the ‘wider determinants of health and ill-health’ as they are often called, are complex and contested. Family...
Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Everyday English 1
Languages

Everyday English 1

...manage your digital badges online from your OpenLearn Profile. In addition, you can download and print your OpenLearn Statement of participation – which also displays your badge. This course has been produced as part of the Department for Education’s Flexible Learning Fund, the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales and with the kind support of Dangoor Education,...
Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
The law-making process in England and Wales
Society, Politics & Law

The law-making process in England and Wales

...Introduction - This OpenLearn course introduces you to the different sources of law in England and Wales. The course begins by providing an overview of the different sources of law. It then considers what is meant by democracy and how and by whom proposed legislation is initiated, before introducing you to the Westminster Parliament, which creates legislation. It is...
Tales of Trump told in Trumpian tones: Michael Wolff's Fire And Fury
Society, Politics & Law

Tales of Trump told in Trumpian tones: Michael Wolff's Fire And Fury

...introduction at this point. The book has become an international bestseller overnight, helped no doubt by the now-traditional Twitter explosion from President Donald Trump alongside the White House’s attempts to prevent the book’s publication – a la the Spycatcher affair in Britain in the 1980s. Several questions have arisen since Fire and Fury’s release,...
What is Planetary Protection?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is Planetary Protection?

...introduction of extraterrestrial matter and, where necessary, shall adopt appropriate measures for this purpose.” [The Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) logo.]COSPAR logoThe Policy was established by the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR). Through this Policy, international requirements have been developed to support space-faring nations and other organisations to...
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft
History & The Arts

Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft

...projected from the wall, the groups being still arrayed with reference to the building, which serves also as a frame to hold the figures; and when, at last, the greatest freedom of style and treatment was reached, the prevailing genius of architecture still enforced a certain calmness and continence in the statue. As soon as the statue was begun for itself, and with no...
Play, learning and the brain
Education & Development

Play, learning and the brain

...Introduction - This course examines the subject of brain-based learning, with a particular focus on the development of the young child's brain and is of particular relevance to those who work with young children. We begin by looking at the structure and functions of the brain, and the impact that sensory deprivation can have on these. We consider the implications of...
Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
What is the genome made of?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is the genome made of?

...Introduction - Genomes are composed of DNA, and a knowledge of the structure of DNA is essential to understand how it can function as hereditary material. DNA is remarkable, breathtakingly simple in its structure yet capable of directing all the living processes in a cell, the production of new cells and the development of a fertilized egg to an individual adult. DNA has...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs