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Engineering: The nature of problems
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The nature of problems

...World) agreed to feature the idea. Two entrepreneurs who happened to be watching contacted Baylis immediately, going on to form a company with the intention of putting the clockwork radio into production. 'Freeplay', as they were called, raised a government grant for initial development costs and then found investors, to date selling over three million units. The company...
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Level 2: Intermediate 40 hrs
Studying mammals: The opportunists
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The opportunists

...world are somehow stored in the rats' brains. In one of his experiments, Tolman used the maze shown in Figure 5. Three paths (A, B and C) lead from the start to the goal box (which contains food). When given a free choice of paths, rats preferred to take path A, this being the shortest and most direct route. After a preference had emerged for path A, a block was placed at...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Digital forensics
Science, Maths & Technology

Digital forensics

...world of digital forensics, that is, applying forensic science to the digital artefacts that we create every day through our interactions with computers, mobile phones and the unseen objects around us that encompass the so-called ‘internet of things’. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of postgraduate study in Maths...Digital forensics: Learning outcomes - After...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course
Languages

Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course

...world. [Map of the world colour-coded to show Chinese-speaking areas.] (Adapted from ASDFGHJ, ‘A map of the Sinophone world’, 24 January 2009, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:New-Map-Sinophone_World.PNG, last accessed 29 May 2009) Figure 1 The Chinese-speaking world...Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course: 1.1 Varieties of Chinese - Apart from Mandarin, the other six major...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Hadrian's Rome
History & The Arts

Hadrian's Rome

...world. Standing here inside the building, despite the crowds, the most striking aspect I can see is the hole, or oculus, in the coffered dome. This opening, 30 Roman feet across, lets in sunlight, moonlight, rain and the birds. The circular oculus makes sunlight cast a beam, like a floodlight, on the wall, and, like a floodlight, this beam moves around the interior,...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Hybrid working: change management
Money & Business

Hybrid working: change management

...world, which could not be planned for, and rapid change programmes where implemented. As we adapt to hybrid ways of working and expectations, organisations are drawing on their experience to start to consider how to manage change now and for the future. This course focuses on how to approach a change initiative you want to implement, introducing you to frameworks and...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Language of Poverty
Society, Politics & Law

Language of Poverty

...World War II era, we think back about the 1950s, 1960s as the Golden Age of the British welfare state. But even during that period, it is not too difficult to find a language that talks about the deserving and undeserving. So, for example, one of the key problem groups in the 1950s and 60s were the problem families. Problem families who were not raising their kids...
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Audio 5 mins
The technology of crime control
Society, Politics & Law

The technology of crime control

...world? These are some of the questions that are currently preoccupying criminologists, especially those involved in ‘situational crime prevention’ initiatives and ‘governance’ theorists. Listen to the audio files. You may find it helpful to listen to the recordings a second time and take notes. The technology crime control part 1 (11 minutes 5 MB) JOHN MUNCIE. My...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr