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Talk the talk
Education & Development

Talk the talk

...students have never known a world without digital being part of their life, then shame on us if we think we can sit still, put our head in the sands and deliver a teaching experience for them that not only doesn't map to the world that they live in, doesn't map to the jobs and prosperity we wish for them and their families for the generations ahead. Quite convincing,...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
The moral equality of combatants
History & The Arts

The moral equality of combatants

...students to understand and assess the epistemological argument for the moral equality of combatants and other arguments for and against this idea...This free course introduces and explores the idea of the moral equality of combatants and discusses the question of the basis of liability to killing in war. It invites students to understand and assess the epistemological...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
Hadrian's Rome
History & The Arts

Hadrian's Rome

...become divine when he dies. The axis of the Pantheon points at the Mausoleum of Augustus, so there’s all this implicit negotiation on the edge of what is acceptable. Eleanor Betts And so how does the Pantheon fit in with the rest of the architectural landscape of the Campus Martius? Mark Wilson Jones What’s important to realise here is that the Pantheon isn’t born...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
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Money & Business

Developing business ideas for drone technologies

...students, currently studying with The Open University – http://www.open.ac.uk/ choose/ ou/ open-content 2. Enjoyed this? Find out more about this topic or browse all our free course materials on OpenLearn – http://www.open.edu/ openlearn/ 3. Outside the UK? We have students in over a hundred countries studying online qualifications – http://www.openuniversity.edu/...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
History & The Arts

Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts

...becomes evident. It begins with a small child declaring ‘England am I’ (p.70) and the scenes that follow establish a national historical and literary identity: Canterbury pilgrims, Elizabeth I, an 18th-century Restoration comedy, and a Victorian picnic party succeed each other, finishing with the present day. Listen to the following audio, which is a reading of an...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Life in the Palaeozoic
Nature & Environment

Life in the Palaeozoic

...becoming clearer. It seems that some Burgess Shale forms are hard to classify simply because the boundaries between major categories of animal life were still blurred shortly after the Cambrian explosion. In other words, by mid Cambrian time, there still had not been enough time for some groups to have diverged sufficiently from their recent common ancestors to be...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Financial methods in environmental decisions
Nature & Environment

Financial methods in environmental decisions

...become prohibitive, breakdowns and lost running hours are excessive. With more lorry capacity, better reliability and a faster service you could easily obtain more business. You decide to rebuild the depot with better equipment, full insulation, an effective sprinkler system and in-company lorry maintenance. You also decide to replace the five old lorries (which have been...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
The science of nuclear energy
Science, Maths & Technology

The science of nuclear energy

...becoming more informed of energy choices. This course is also available to study on FutureLearn, where you have the opportunity to purchase a FutureLearn certificate on completion....Week 1: Into the atom: Introduction - Welcome to this free course, The science of nuclear energy. In the following video, course authors Sam Smidt and Gemma Warriner introduce themselves and...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs