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Listening to young children: supporting transition
Education & Development

Listening to young children: supporting transition

...become confident, active participants in a new setting...In this free course, Listening to young children: supporting transition, you will explore ways of listening to children in order to support their experiences of changes or transitions. Such transitions can involve many dimensions, including familiarisation with new cultural practices, the development of new...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Introducing engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing engineering

...becomes stable under its own weight. You will also realise that some heavy weights, both stones and timber, had to be shifted – which called for ropes, pulleys, levers …. And day by day the project had to be supervised, or kept on track, by an engineer who understood both what to do and how to do it. Evidently this engineer did it rather well: the result is still...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
The gut microbiome: balancing the body
Science, Maths & Technology

The gut microbiome: balancing the body

...become predominant, called Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes, which form about 90% of the gut microbiota (Arumugam, 2011). Figure 4 shows the distribution of the most common bacterial groups found in microbiomes around the body. You may notice that the different parts of the GI tract contain different proportions of the bacteria. [Described image] Figure 4 Distribution of...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introduction to polymers
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to polymers

...become blurred by the development of thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs). Moreover, all polymers, irrespective of their nature, can be reinforced by a very wide range of fillers to produce composite materials. [Figure 3] Figure 3 Classification of polymers by property Another way of classifying polymers is in terms of their form or function, varying from additives to other...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Minerals and the crystalline state
Science, Maths & Technology

Minerals and the crystalline state

...student), or to register with you email address to create an account free of charge. This only takes a few minutes to do. Note that the interactive activities on the OpenScience Laboratory website require a modern web browser, such as Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Apple Safari or Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 or later. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Introducing International Relations
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing International Relations

...become prominent in IR due to climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution. These issues require international cooperation, as seen in global climate agreements. For example, competition over resources like cobalt has environmental implications, affecting mining practices in countries like Congo and influencing sustainable energy policies globally. Social and cultural...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Digital communications
Digital & Computing

Digital communications

...become ever more significant, and fibre is now being used even in LANs and the access network. The way in which fibre is used is also changing. Originally, fibre was used just for stand-alone point-to-point links. Signal processing – amplification, regeneration, switching and routeing, for example – was done in electronic components. Now, however, devices for optical...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
What does an engineer look like?
Science, Maths & Technology

What does an engineer look like?

...becoming an astronaut in 1987. She flew as a mission specialist on STS-47 in 1992 and STS-60 in 1994, and was the payload commander on STS-85 in 1997. In July 1999, she transferred to the Marshall Space Flight Center, where she became Director of Flight Projects. Dr. Mae C. Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, was born on October 17, 1956 in Decatur,...
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