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Studying mammals: The opportunists
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The opportunists

...interactions and interdependencies between organisms with different diets, mammals included. Such issues are central to the branch of biology known as ecology; ecological ideas are essential to understand what makes particular populations of interacting organisms 'tick'. Learning more about how energy flows between different organisms raises the question of how mammals...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Learning from major cyber security incidents
Digital & Computing

Learning from major cyber security incidents

...social, legal, ethical and personal issues that relate to cyber security incidents...Learning from major cyber security incidents: 1 Cyber security basics - This course does not cover the basics of cyber security and online safety as these are covered in the badged OpenLearn course Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online (open the link in a new tab or window by...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Dawn Parsonage-Kent - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dawn Parsonage-Kent - Earth in Vision

...interacting with it and a few hundred comments, so … yeah. Working with green clients One challenge that we find is that clients maybe are not always quite as brave as they might be when it comes to commissioning films. So generally we give a series of ideas, some are more… say, a case-study based idea which will contain lots and lots of facts, lots and lots of...
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Video 30 mins
Why is Mongolia a good place to die?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is Mongolia a good place to die?

...social and psychological support. In a 2015 survey of global palliative care, the UK comes top, Australia second and the USA ninth. And while the richest Western nations lead the pack, Mongolia appears notably high up, especially considering that it’s well down the economic rankings. (It comes 28th in the palliative care survey but ranks 141st for gross national income...
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Article 15 mins
History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past

...social scientists in the nineteenth- and early-twentieth centuries. These men and women set out to observe life in Britain and, as part of this, to interview men, women and children about their daily habits. Henry Mayhew’s famous study of the working classes of London, London Labour and the London Poor, compiled during the 1840s and 1850s, reveals much about the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Professional relationships with young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Professional relationships with young people

...social skills necessary to survive and thrive. Relationships lie at the heart of all effective work with young people and are the foundation upon which you can build your work with them. In some people’s eyes, the development of relationships is a good end in itself, as it is in relationships that we express our humanity. Young people with few good quality relationships...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Extending and developing your thinking skills
Education & Development

Extending and developing your thinking skills

...social interaction to portray threat, intention, alarm, and so on - and highly sophisticated forms of communication are found in other species as well (whales and dolphins provide a fascinating example). But, for many researchers this is not the same as human language which is essentially infinite in its meaning (largely due to its grammar), and which is able to associate...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Scottish courts and the law Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Scottish courts and the law

...social media, having a meal, shopping in the local supermarket, driving, going to school, attending university or going on holiday. Laws are created in different ways but to be effective, mechanisms for the enforcement of law and for resolving disputes involving law need to exist. This is why over the past 1000 years a system for resolving disputes, the courts, evolved....
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs