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Energy resources: solar energy
Nature & Environment

Energy resources: solar energy

...become uncomfortably hot, even in the UK. The darker solids are, the more short-wave radiation they absorb - black cars become hotter inside than do white ones on sunny days. The most common design using water as a heat absorber is a flat glass plate set above a waterproof black surface (Figure 4a). Water flows slowly between the two, becomes heated and can either be...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Children and young people: food and food marketing
Education & Development

Children and young people: food and food marketing

...becoming aware of food marketing? Why might this be problematic? [MUSIC PLAYING] HEATHER MONTGOMERY Hello. I'm Heather Montgomery. I'm here today with my colleague psychologist, Dr. Mimi Tatlow-Golden, who's going to be talking about the work she's done on children. And you've worked on children and food, I believe? MIMI TATLOW-GOLDEN I have. Yeah. Yeah. I also do some...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Exploring anxiety
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring anxiety

...become synonymous and strongly associated with the possibility of negative outcomes. Risk is less often viewed in terms of balancing good with adverse outcomes. The OpenLearn course Challenging ideas in mental health discusses this further, exploring the meaning of risk in the context of mental health. It is perhaps not surprising therefore that societal views as well as...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Exploring Ovid’s big ideas
History & The Arts

Exploring Ovid’s big ideas

...become deer, cows with human feelings and humans who are turned into gods. Study note: a note on dates You will notice that this course uses the abbreviations ‘BCE’ and ‘CE’ when dating events, texts and objects. These abbreviations stand for ‘Before the Common Era’ and ‘Common Era’. You may be familiar with an alternative method of referring to dates as...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Jim Skea - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Jim Skea - Stories of Change

...becomes a major industry you’re finding that people who perhaps have automotive interests who have better insights on how to develop braking systems are bringing things across from other sectors into the wind sector. That is not going to produce radical reductions in costs, but you’re going to come down the cost curve gradually, certainly with wind, and in some parts...
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Audio 5 mins
Approaching prose fiction
History & The Arts

Approaching prose fiction

...become expert readers, we may begin to see some flaws in the workmanship or in the coherence of the design itself. But as beginning students our first task is to become aware of the pattern of meanings which can be discerned in the novel we are studying. It is only with practice and experience that we shall begin to see that the flood of books we call novels have features...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Exploring criminology: problem-solving courts
Society, Politics & Law

Exploring criminology: problem-solving courts

...become frayed and weakened Social life is characterised by various relationships – those with family and friends, neighbours, wider communities, and those people have with social institutions such as government services, schools or universities. But what happens when things go wrong in social relationships – how do societies deal with that? When social relationships...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Voices from the Global South: an international field trip
Society, Politics & Law

Voices from the Global South: an international field trip

...become a geographer fit for the twenty-first century. The six videos that make up this field trip have been carefully produced to ensure that the contributors you hear and see speak directly to the issues of the climate crisis; their views, in other words, are not mediated by a narrator. Such directness not only adds an urgency to the debate around the climate crisis, but...
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Article 5 hrs