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Planetary Protection: Space Governance and the Search for Life
Science, Maths & Technology

Planetary Protection: Space Governance and the Search for Life

...social and moral aspect to this obligation. Space scientists expect missions to comply with the planetary protection principles; to not do so risks condemnation from the scientific community. This ensures a degree of compliance, at least by scientists. [Apollo 11 Crew In Quarantine] Nixon welcoming the Apollo 11 crew in quarantine. There are concerns about
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Article 10 mins
Introducing consciousness
History & The Arts

Introducing consciousness

...work out what has happened. Moving your head, you recognise the dentist's face and realise that he is speaking your name and asking if you want a glass of water. Your remember where you are, sit up shakily and take the glass. Think about what happened as you regained consciousness. Various bodily processes resumed. Your sense organs started functioning again, registering...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present
History & The Arts

The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present

...works. We are currently working to update this....The Ancient Olympics: Bridging past and present: Introduction - Our modern Games and the Ancient Olympics are different in many respects – today’s Olympics are strictly secular, whilst the Ancient Olympics were steeped in religion; our modern Games have 42 disciplines, compared to the six of the Classical world; today,...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
An introduction to software development
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to software development

...working code is valued above other types of artefact, such as models or other documentation. Extreme Programming (XP) (Beck, 2000) and Scrum (Schwaber and Beedle, 2001) are two well-known Agile development approaches. Within the same timescale of Agile development, model-driven-development (Selic, 2003) also arose. This approach sees models and not code as the key...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Rounding and estimation
Science, Maths & Technology

Rounding and estimation

...working out what calculation you want to do; Stage 2: working out roughly what size of answer to expect from your calculation; Stage 3: carrying out the calculation; Stage 4: interpreting the answer – Does it agree with the rough estimate? Does it make sense in terms of the original problem? This course focuses on Stages 2 and 4. This OpenLearn course provides a sample...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Studying mammals: A winning design
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: A winning design

...work through the course. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 1 study in Environment & Development...Studying mammals: A winning design: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: explain the distinctive biological features of monotremes distinguish contrasting modes of reproduction in monotremes, marsupials and placental mammals...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Using a scientific calculator
Science, Maths & Technology

Using a scientific calculator

...working in ‘Math’ mode, and the word Math will be shown near the right-hand side of the top of the calculator display, as shown in Figure 4 below. Math mode is the recommended way of using your calculator during this course as it allows mathematics to be entered and displayed in a similar way to how you would write it on paper. [The figure shows the display on a...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Speeches and speech-making
History & The Arts

Speeches and speech-making

...work through this course you will frequently be thinking about the audiences (or readers) for written texts. But for the purposes of the next activity we will move away from the printed page so that we can listen to some examples of famous speeches, and begin to analyse their effects. Listen to the following audio, ‘Speeches and speech-making’, and then answer the...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr