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Electronic applications
Science, Maths & Technology

Electronic applications

...Introduction - The modern world would not be able to function without electronic systems. Using a variety of teaching material, including videos and interactive activities, this free course, Electronic applications, will show you how electronic systems can be found everywhere in communications, control and signal processing. It focusses on electronic filters, particularly...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Exploring books for children: words and pictures
History & The Arts

Exploring books for children: words and pictures

...Introduction - Pictures have played an important role in books for children ever since there have been publications produced particularly with children in mind. But how do stories and picturebooks encountered in childhood fire young imaginations? In this free course Exploring books for children: words and pictures you will learn how children’s fiction, ranging from...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Climate change
Nature & Environment

Climate change

...Introduction - This course explores the topic of climate change and global warming. We will begin by exploring how the Earth's global mean surface temperature is determined through a global “balancing act” of the rate of energy that comes from the Sun and the rate at which the planet returns that energy into space. We will also discuss the natural greenhouse effect,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 18 hrs
Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor

...Introduction - This is the second in a series of three courses on Animals at the extremes. In order to get the most from it, you should have previously studied Animals at the extremes: The desert environment (S324_1). After completing this course you might like to complete the series by studying Animals at the extremes: Polar biology (S324_3). This OpenLearn course...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Beginners’ German: Places and people
Languages

Beginners’ German: Places and people

...Introduction - This free course focuses on planning and preparing for a journey through German-speaking countries. You will read and hear about a range of places and people. You will learn the names of things you need to remember when travelling and, most importantly, you will find out what it’s like to read and listen to German in real contexts, and about developing...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach
Society, Politics & Law

Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach

...Introduction - Children are subject to many forms of adversity, for example, poverty or ill health. However, a significant form of adversity experienced by children in many different regions of the world is violence. The form of violence against children varies widely and is hugely disparate. In this course, the focus is on three different environments where children...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Criminology beyond crime
Society, Politics & Law

Criminology beyond crime

...Introduction - Large-scale human, social or global harms are areas that critical criminologists have been examining for some years. In the increasingly globalised world of the twenty-first century, such endeavours have become central to the critical enterprise. To this end, notions of a ‘supranational criminology’ (Smeulers and Haveman, 2008) have been developed. This...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Exploring family health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring family health

...Introduction - Our family relationships can have a strong influence – positive and negative – on our health, and on how we behave in relation to our health. This OpenLearn course explores how family life impacts on the health of individuals, and how the family is often the focus for health promotion initiatives, such as the national '5 A DAY' campaign. Many informal...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs