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What is politics?
Society, Politics & Law

What is politics?

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the competing interpretations of what politics is, who does it and where it is done grasp the importance of politics and the variety of ways in which politics affects your everyday life better understand the contestability of concepts in politics, and the implications of such contestability...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Introduction to quantum computing
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to quantum computing

...learn how quantum computers exploit quantum mechanical properties like superposition and entanglement to deliver a computational power that goes way beyond the ability of classical computers. You will learn how different types of quantum gates act on qubits and analyse simple quantum circuits for yourself. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Managing my investments
Money & Business

Managing my investments

...learn about different investment choices, the returns and risks associated with each, and the evidence about their historical performance. You'll explore investment strategies, as well as the practicalities about involvement in personal finance markets. And you'll look at how to avoid the individual and group behavioural traits that can impair effective investment...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Managing virtual project teams
Money & Business

Managing virtual project teams

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: consider the types of skills needed within a project team and the implications for writing a person specification be aware of social and task behaviours that can support an effective team understand a responsibility assignment matrix identify the difference in awareness between team members in a...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing
Money & Business

Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand some features of the housing market, such as affordability, and decisions to rent or buy, supported by the use of various media, including graphs, tables, news articles, videos and household interviews describe different types of housing finance and, with the aid of an interactive tool and...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Surface water
Nature & Environment

Surface water

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: list the types of springs, and how each type relates to a different geological setting use hydrographs to distinguish overland flow and interflow from baseflow, and make inferences about the climate of an area expain how various changes in land use in a river catchment will change the hydrograph of a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Electromagnetism: testing Coulomb’s law
Science, Maths & Technology

Electromagnetism: testing Coulomb’s law

...Learning outcomes After studying this course, you should be able to: describe the properties of Coulomb’s law and electrostatic force determine the force exerted on one stationary charge by another using Coulomb’s law explain some of the uncertainties and errors that can occur in experimental measurements of electrostatic properties. This OpenLearn course is an...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Visions of protest: graffiti
History & The Arts

Visions of protest: graffiti

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand more clearly the complexity of the concept of ‘art’ explain the origins and meanings of the concept of ‘graffiti’ and distinguish between different forms of graffiti have a clearer understanding of different attitudes to graffiti and different arguments used in debates related to...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs