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Climate justice for the next generation
Education & Development

Climate justice for the next generation

...Introduction - This free course, Climate justice for the next generation, introduces you to a contemporary, emerging issue in Childhood and Youth Studies. You will examine some of the debates around environmental change, its specific impact on children and young people, and the role of children and young people as activists and campaigners within their changing...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Intermediate Italian: describing people
Languages

Intermediate Italian: describing people

...Introduction - In this free course, Intermediate Italian: describing people, you will learn vocabulary relating to physical description and personality, and practise describing and comparing people. You will also find out about the Italian author Natalia Ginzburg and have the opportunity to read an extract from one of her novels. Listening to Italian speakers describing...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Additive manufacturing
Science, Maths & Technology

Additive manufacturing

...Introduction - Additive manufacturing (AM) is a group of manufacturing techniques that rely on the addition of material to form a new component or addition of some material to an existing component. It is a rapidly developing field of processing. Attention-grabbing innovations appear regularly in the media and there is a great deal of excitement about the possibilities...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Watching the weather
Nature & Environment

Watching the weather

...Introduction - Measuring and recording the weather is essential for many reasons: to accumulate an accurate record of the past; to provide a picture of what is happening now and a warning of extreme events; and to give the right starting point for predicting the future, in other words a weather forecast. It is also essential to later check those predictions and to improve...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Living psychology: animal minds
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living psychology: animal minds

...Introduction - In this free course, Living psychology: animal minds, you will explore various questions about non-human animal minds, including whether animals have similar mental states to humans, such as emotions and cognitions. You will also consider whether animals may even have an understanding of others’ mental states, such as beliefs, desires, intentions and so...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Introducing vectors for engineering applications
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing vectors for engineering applications

...Introduction - Applied mathematics is a key skill for practicing engineers and mathematical modelling is an ever-increasing field within engineering. . In Section 1 you will explore how vectors are used to model force and motion, and consider how problems involving vectors can be solved using geometry and trigonometry. In Section 2 you explore how to work with vectors...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Climate change and renewable energy
Nature & Environment

Climate change and renewable energy

...Introduction - The Earth’s climate, although varying over millions of years, has been ‘just right’ to allow the development of life, first in the oceans and then on land. A key factor has been the natural greenhouse effect, which has warmed the planet and allowed the bulk of the world’s oceans to remain ice-free. This course describes the basic science of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
The formation of exoplanets
Science, Maths & Technology

The formation of exoplanets

...Introduction - The idea that our Solar System may not be unique, and that there might be planets orbiting other stars (or exoplanets), has been around for a long time. Important principles that underpin exoplanet research today were foretold by key discoveries in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In 1783, an unseen companion was presented as an explanation of the...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs