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Moons of our Solar System Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Moons of our Solar System

...skills that will be really useful for further studies in science. So here we go Week 1. We begin with an introduction to the moons of the Solar System and getting some facts straight with a myth-busting animation. You’ll learn about orbits - mainly about how our own Moon’s orbit around the Earth is responsible for its phases, and how the interaction between a moon’s...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Hadrian's Rome
History & The Arts

Hadrian's Rome

...study. He was a well-travelled emperor, who spent much of his reign away from Rome, surveying the empire. This might suggest that, to Hadrian, Rome was not of central importance. However, he was a prolific builder and funded extensive building schemes in Rome. He grasped the symbolic importance of the city as the hub of the empire, a place where the emperor needed to make...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Robert Owen and New Lanark
History & The Arts

Robert Owen and New Lanark

...study in Arts and Humanities...Robert Owen and New Lanark: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the Enlightenment ideas that underpinned Robert Owen's social reform agenda understand how Owen's background and experience at New Lanark fed through into his thinking in the essays in A New View of Society understand the main...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language
Health, Sports & Psychology

From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language

...studying this course, you should be able to: recognise definitions and applications of key terms relating to mental health understand and apply basic grammatical terminology describe briefly the different types of sounds used in speech in both acoustic and articulatory terms outline the key features of human language as compared to the vocalisations of other species...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Assessing risk in engineering, work and life
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing risk in engineering, work and life

...studies of major accidents to illustrate some important aspects of risk and how we perceive it. Section 3 introduces probability as a method for evaluating risk, and finishes by considering risk management. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course T193 Engineering: frameworks, analysis, production...Assessing risk in engineering, work...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Political ordering
Society, Politics & Law

Political ordering

...studying this course, you should be able to: understand key social issues and debates in contemporary UK society, such as: how social and material lives are related; how our identities are made; and how societies are ordered and governed understand inequalities, difference and diversity in contemporary societies construct a simple social science argument using appropriate...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Rounding and estimation
Science, Maths & Technology

Rounding and estimation

...study in Mathematics...Rounding and estimation: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: round a given whole number to the nearest 10, 100, 1000 and so on round a decimal number to a given number of decimal places or significant figures use rounded numbers to find rough estimates for calculations use a calculator for decimal calculations...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Liquidity management
Money & Business

Liquidity management

...studying this course, you should be able to: understand the nature of liquidity risk understand methods that can be used to measure exposure to liquidity review how organisations manage their exposure to liquidity risk appreciate how liquidity risk can be managed through the effective structuring of assets (particularly liquid assets) and liabilities (particularly debt...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs