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Microbes – friend or foe?
Nature & Environment

Microbes – friend or foe?

...course is an adapted extract from the Open University course SG071 Learn about microbes...Microbes – friend or foe?: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate general knowledge and understanding of some of the basic facts, language, concepts and principles relating to microbiology and its importance and applications in...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life

...opens it, revealing a small hole. Charles sniffs at it… and moves on. The hole is re-closed, and there’s a clink of metal as the next plate is yanked back. This time, Charles is gripped. He sniffs hard, scratching at the metal, the five claws on each paw splayed with the pressure. The technician calls out “Two!” Over by the window, her colleague is holding a...
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Facilitating group discussions
Money & Business

Facilitating group discussions

...inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity. Don't miss out: If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University - www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Caring for adults
Health, Sports & Psychology

Caring for adults

...open and interested in what this person is trying to communicate. I make eye contact with them. Now, I don’t stare them down because, let’s be honest, staring somebody down might be a little intimidating coming from someone who’s five feet tall. So I occasionally make eye contact. I uncross my hands, unclench my fists, let them know that I’m here to listen to...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Beginners’ Italian: food and drink
Languages

Beginners’ Italian: food and drink

...course provides a taster for studying other Italian short courses at The Open University’s Open Centre for Languages and Cultures. Some activities in this course use an audio-recording tool. This may not work correctly in the Safari browser on Apple Mac computers. Please try another browser such as Google Chrome to run this...Beginners’ Italian: food and...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Collective leadership
Money & Business

Collective leadership

...Open University course B208 Developing leadership. The Open University would really appreciate a few minutes of your time to tell us about yourself and your expectations for the course before you begin, in our optional start-of-course survey. Once you complete the course we would also value your feedback and suggestions for future improvement, in our optional...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
What is the genome made of?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is the genome made of?

...2.0 Licence. All other materials included in this course are derived from content originated at the Open University. Don't miss out: If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University - www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Tim Scoones - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Tim Scoones - Earth in Vision

...opener for me. I used to sit with my parents, I was in front of the fire, like a dog, watching the world through this little box in the corner of the living room in the early seventies, just thinking, ‘That’s absolutely amazing.’ The fascination of nature, the beauty of nature, the fascination of animals and ecologies and all of that and morphologies was just...
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