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A tour of the cell
Science, Maths & Technology

A tour of the cell

...Introduction - This course contains a blend of text and a multimedia interactive component to look at the uniformity and diversity within cells. Fundamental to understanding how cells 'work' is knowledge of the subcellular components and how they are arranged and this is tested through a series of in-text and self-assessment questions. This OpenLearn course is an adapted...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Introducing the philosophy of religion
History & The Arts

Introducing the philosophy of religion

...Introduction - In this course, you will consider the meanings of the key terms ‘God’ and ‘religion’; identify some key questions in the philosophy of religion; think about the difference between philosophical and non-philosophical questions about religion; and look at the often-discussed question of whether argument and evidence are even possible when we are...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Living without oil
Science, Maths & Technology

Living without oil

...Introduction - Crude oil is currently our most important global source of energy. It is vital in the manufacture of many modern materials. But the world's supply of oil is finite, its price is unstable and our reliance on oil has damaging environmental consequences. This course explains why developing alternatives to oil is an essential and urgent task for humanity. This...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Engineering: environmental fluids
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: environmental fluids

...Introduction - We all have constant daily experience of fluids, from breathing air to taking showers and checking weather forecasts, which means that we all have a great deal of intuitive knowledge about how they behave; this course will build on that knowledge. The Earth’s atmosphere and oceans are two of the most important fluids for engineers, and a working knowledge...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Gweithio hybrid: datblygu sefydliadol
Money & Business

Gweithio hybrid: datblygu sefydliadol

...manage generational differences. In the workplace, in spite of anti-age discrimination laws, ageism still exists. Some of you may remember the 2013 time magazine cover, The Me Me Me Generation. Millennials are lazy entitled narcissists. Or you may recall that in 2007, Mark Zuckerberg said young people are just smarter. I think he may have forgotten that it’s the baby...
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Level 1: Introductory 21 hrs
Dutch painting of the Golden Age
History & The Arts

Dutch painting of the Golden Age

...Introduction - In this free course, Dutch painting of the Golden Age, you shall be exploring issues of meaning and interpretation with specific reference to Dutch seventeenth-century painting. Works by artists such as Johannes Vermeer (Figure 1), Pieter de Hooch (Figure 2), Gabriel Metsu (Figure 3), Jacob van Ruisdael (Figure 4) and Jan Steen (Figure 5) are now among the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
What can philosophy tell us about race?
History & The Arts

What can philosophy tell us about race?

...Introduction - This free course introduces you to the philosophy of race and explores the ways in which philosophy impacts our understanding of the social world. You will explore answers to two central questions: What is race? What is racism? Along the way, you will consider what the term ‘race’ means, you will critically examine the role of ancestry and power in...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Interpreting data: Boxplots and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

Interpreting data: Boxplots and tables

...Introduction - This course is concerned with two main topics. In Section 1, you will learn about another kind of graphical display, the boxplot. Boxplots are particularly useful for assessing quickly the location, dispersion, and symmetry or skewness of a set of data, and for making comparisons of these features in two or more data sets. The other topic, is that of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs