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Textiles in Ghana
History & The Arts

Textiles in Ghana

...course will help you to understand how textiles can carry an assortment of meanings and values, including wealth, status and office...Textiles in Ghana carry a far greater importance than you might expect. This free course will help you to understand how textiles can carry an assortment of meanings and values, including wealth, status and office....Textiles in Ghana:...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Exploring communications technology
Digital & Computing

Exploring communications technology

...course, Exploring communications technology, looks at some of the principles underpinning communications technology. It looks at the properties of signals and media (such as optical fibre and radio waves), error control, data compression, and the principles of 4G mobile communications, wi-fi and DSL broadband...This free course, Exploring communications technology, looks...
Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction
History & The Arts

Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction

...course, Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction, examines the philosophical questions surrounding the mind. You will examine how beliefs have changed over the centuries and be able to contrast the views of Descartes with more modern ideas...This free course, Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction, examines the philosophical questions surrounding the mind. You...
Challenges in advanced management accounting
Money & Business

Challenges in advanced management accounting

...course, Challenges in advanced management accounting, focuses on strategic management accounting and selected concepts and techniques. It will help you to successfully navigate mid- to long-term challenges to creating sustainable organisations. This OpenLearn course requires a prior understanding of basic management accounting approaches...This free course, Challenges in...
The law-making process in England and Wales
Society, Politics & Law

The law-making process in England and Wales

...course, The law-making process in England and Wales, introduces you to the sources of law in England and Wales. It examines the democratic law-making process and how and by whom proposed legislation is initiated, before introducing you to the Westminster Parliament, which creates legislation. It is within this Parliament that proposed legislation is considered and becomes...
Promoting the effective management of children’s pain – part 2
Health, Sports & Psychology

Promoting the effective management of children’s pain – part 2

...courses focusing on the effective management of children’s pain. The focus of the first course was on why pain matters and how a pain management framework can be used to deliver the effective management of children’s pain. This second free course further develops how to improve children’s pain management in hospital, focusing on including parents/carers in the...
The family at the centre of early learning
Education & Development

The family at the centre of early learning

...course, The family at the centre of early learning, focuses on the positive learning relationships that can exist in any family and how ordinary, everyday domestic activities can sustain learning. You will consider how the traditions and cultural practices of the community to which the family belongs filters through to the child’s experiences. In doing so you will think...
Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’
History & The Arts

Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’

...course, Helen Langdon's 'Caravaggio', explores the biographical monograph, one of the most common forms of art history writing...Accounts of Caravaggio's life are filled with suggestions of murder and intrigue. But does knowing more about this dark artist's experiences help us to interpret his art? Or does understanding his motivations cloud their true meaning? This free...