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Engineering: environmental fluids
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: environmental fluids

...Introduction - We all have constant daily experience of fluids, from breathing air to taking showers and checking weather forecasts, which means that we all have a great deal of intuitive knowledge about how they behave; this course will build on that knowledge. The Earth’s atmosphere and oceans are two of the most important fluids for engineers, and a working knowledge...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Approaching poetry
History & The Arts

Approaching poetry

...Introduction - This course is designed to develop the analytical skills you need for a more in-depth study of literary texts. You will learn about rhythm, alliteration, rhyme, poetic inversion, voice and line lengths and endings. You will examine poems that do not rhyme and learn how to compare and contrast poetry. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 2 study...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Squares, roots and powers
Science, Maths & Technology

Squares, roots and powers

...Introduction - This free course, Squares, roots and powers, reminds you about powers of numbers, such as squares and square roots. In particular, powers of 10 are used to express large and small numbers in a convenient form, known as scientific notation, which is used by scientific calculators. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 1 study in
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution
History & The Arts

Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution

...Introduction - This free course, Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution, will introduce you to issues around the sexual revolution and how this, alongside other contemporary social revolutions of the 1960s, impacted upon American female rock musician Janis Joplin (1943-1970). You will investigate the extent to which the contemporary sexual revolution brought about greater...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Electromagnetism: testing Coulomb’s law
Science, Maths & Technology

Electromagnetism: testing Coulomb’s law

...Introduction - Electrical charges can be positive or negative. Charges of the same type repel each other, and charges of different types attract each other. For example, static electricity can cause hair to stand on end as similarly charged strands of hair all try to avoid each other, while in lightning a build up of negatively charged electrons moves rapidly to a region...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Beginners’ Spanish: food and drink
Languages

Beginners’ Spanish: food and drink

...Introduction - This free OpenLearn course, Beginners' Spanish: food and drink, requires some basic knowledge of Spanish. You will be able to use some basic vocabulary relating to food, drinks, meals, quantities and measures. You will also have the opportunity to practise how to order a meal, go shopping and pay for food. You will listen to Spanish speakers in a variety of...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
The American Civil Rights Movement
History & The Arts

The American Civil Rights Movement

...Introduction - In the mid-1950s a mass movement developed in opposition to racial discrimination in the United States. This struggle reached its zenith in the early 1960s, when a series of non-violent demonstrations forced the federal government to enact legislation, overturning a deeply entrenched system of racial segregation across the southern states of the USA. The...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Engineering: The challenge of temperature
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The challenge of temperature

...Introduction - In this course we examine one factor that very often seems to be found skulking around close to problems and solutions: temperature. Almost whatever we do, wherever we are, temperature changes. Stay in the same spot and you'll find daytime and night-time temperatures can be markedly different. You may even find significant changes in temperature during the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 40 hrs