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Seeing institutions in different ways
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing institutions in different ways

...studies is how social and economic change can be achieved successfully. Critical to this success is institutional development, as it is through developments in institutions that development in the policies that drive change can be achieved. However, institutions are rich and complex phenomena, and institutional development is a rich and complex process. It is therefore...
Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation
History & The Arts

Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation

...study it with the help of a keyboard instrument. Even a basic 49-key electronic keyboard will allow you to undertake all of the activities. If you cannot get access to an actual instrument, the second-best option is to find an app or website that incorporates a sound-producing keyboard. This should allow you to complete the majority of the activities. This OpenLearn...
IT: Information
Science, Maths & Technology

IT: Information

...in the UK television industry. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 1 study in Computing & IT...IT: Information: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate a knowledge of the different types of storage media for digital data understand the basic concepts of electrical voltage and resistance, and the parameters used to specify batteries demonstrate an ......
Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Exploring how migration changes the places where we live
Society, Politics & Law

Exploring how migration changes the places where we live

...study. National Museums Liverpool - a re-examination of Liverpool’s port history, from its emigration history, to its role of the ‘Ellis Island of the UK’, role in the slave trade. Arrivals Sheffield - photographer Jeremy Abraham’s project documenting and celebrating the diversity of Sheffield’s population. It builds a picture of how that diversity was created...
Nuclear power: friend or foe?
Society, Politics & Law

Nuclear power: friend or foe?

...study in Social sciences...Nuclear power: friend or foe?: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the technical and political constraints on the development of alternative energy strategies reflect on the contemporary discourse of nuclear energy assess your own position in these debates...Nuclear power: friend or foe?: 1 The task...
Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Working with diversity in services for children and young people
Education & Development

Working with diversity in services for children and young people

...study, in which students are expected to be relatively independent learners, feedback comments have not been included for all the activities. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course E809 Frameworks for critical practice with children and young people...Working with diversity in services for children and young people: Learning outcomes -...
Richard Brock - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Richard Brock - Earth in Vision

...skill in the storytelling, and so with this idea I had of winners and losers I was looking at 30 different subjects and trying to assess how to turn losers into winners, so the intention was positive. Now that doesn’t mean there aren’t lots of losers, there are lots of losers if you go round the planet, I’m afraid, there are lots of losers, but some of them have...
Geological processes in the British Isles
Science, Maths & Technology

Geological processes in the British Isles

...studied through the use of the British Geological Survey bedrock geology maps. This course also helps to give a theoretical foundation for any students considering the residential school for the SXR260 The geological history of the British Isles course, based in the north of England. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 2 study in Science...Geological...