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Additive manufacturing
Science, Maths & Technology

Additive manufacturing

...opens up for new ways of making products. In this free course, Additive manufacturing, you will see how product designs are captured digitally in ways that allow the product to be created by depositing material incrementally. You will be introduced to the principles that underpin additive manufacturing so that you are equipped to make sense of future developments in this...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Art in Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

Art in Renaissance Venice

...Sources, Oxford, Blackwell in association with The Open University. Fortini Brown, P. (1988) Venetian Narrative Painting in the Age of Carpaccio, New Haven and London, Yale University Press. Fortini Brown, P. (1996) Venice and Antiquity, New Haven and London, Yale University Press. Fortini Brown, P. (1997) Art and Life in Renaissance Venice, Upper Saddle River,...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Who counts as a refugee?
Society, Politics & Law

Who counts as a refugee?

...Source: Weissbort, 2003, p. 13) These four personal stories come from very different sources. The story of Lotte and Wolja is constructed from their children's memories of stories they had told, together with information in letters and documents found after their deaths. Victor wrote his own story in order ‘to sketch in the human dimension of the ordeal (and the peril)...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Innovation, markets and industrial change
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation, markets and industrial change

...source of power in Britain. Electricity achieved a 50% share of the power used by America's manufacturing industry 90 years after the discovery of electromagnetic induction, and 40 years after the first power station was built. By contrast, half of all Americans already use a personal computer, 50 years after the invention of computers and only 30 years after the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Managing and managing people
Money & Business

Managing and managing people

...Open University course B628 Managing 1: organisations and people...Managing and managing people: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand what is meant by management and managerial effectiveness identify the roles which are fulfilled while working as a manager identify managerial activities that contribute to managerial...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Sporting women in the media
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sporting women in the media

...Open University course E315 Contemporary sport and exercise issues....Sporting women in the media: Introduction - The aim of this free course, Sporting women in the media, is to explore how and why gender discrimination and gender inequalities exist in sport and to investigate some of the implications. There might be some biological differences which means that males and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Penalty Pressure Potential at Euro 2016
Health, Sports & Psychology

Penalty Pressure Potential at Euro 2016

...source of great stress and excitement. England fans have a love-hate relationship with the penalty shoot-out. The excitement of a penalty shoot-out is unquestionable, but England teams are not renowned for their success in penalty shoot-outs. The men’s team have had several exits from major tournaments at the hands of a penalty shoot-out (e.g. 2006 World Cup, Euro 2012)...
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Why is the UK government proposing to bring 1950s values to online pornography?
Society, Politics & Law

Why is the UK government proposing to bring 1950s values to online pornography?

...sources holding information about our online viewing habits. This would create another point of weakness that could easily be exploited by hackers to capture credit card details or to blackmail those registered to porn platforms. What’s unconventional? The bill would also give the power to decide what pornographic we can and can’t watch to the notoriously straight...
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