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Animals at the extremes: polar biology
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: polar biology

...Open University Figure 2 (a) The arctic fox; (b) The subspecies of reindeer Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus Only two species of terrestrial mammal occur naturally throughout the year on Svalbard (although a few others have been introduced by humans during the past century). Figure 2a shows the arctic fox (Alopex lagopus), which also occurs throughout the Arctic, and in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Seeing institutions in different ways
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing institutions in different ways

...Open University course TU872 Institutional development: Conflicts, values and meanings...Seeing institutions in different ways: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand different ways of thinking about institutions and institutional development appreciate that institutions in processes of development create pictures of...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
What is poetry?
History & The Arts

What is poetry?

...opens nor closes on the view beneath: a desert of wrinkles that the sea composes then wipes out, to show her sway over days, I glance sideways as she rises in her ruffled swimsuit, tries to be a crest that the lip doesn’t need, but it’s higher than her hair: she arcs with its roll and is contained for a moment, like Longley’s otter and the Mayo swell, is borne...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Psychological research, obedience and ethics
Society, Politics & Law

Psychological research, obedience and ethics

...Open University course DE100 Investigating psychology 1...Psychological research, obedience and ethics: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: describe the research of Stanley Milgram on obedience recognise the main ethics principles governing psychological research understand the ethics issues concerning research involving non-human...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Everyday maths 2 (Wales)
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 2 (Wales)

...Open University digital badge. The badge is a great way to demonstrate your interest in the subject. What you learn by completing the course will really help if you wish to enrol on a formal qualification. Once you are signed in, you can manage your digital badges online from your OpenLearn Profile. In addition, you can download and print your OpenLearn Statement of...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis
Languages

A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis

...Open University course L101 Introducing English language studies...A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand how different writing systems have developed over time understand how technology influences what we can do with language, and the form that language takes...A brief...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Beginners’ French: food and drink
Languages

Beginners’ French: food and drink

...Open University course L192 Bon départ: beginners' French ...Beginners’ French: food and drink: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: express likes and dislikes in relation to food and drink order food and drinks, and take part in simple exchanges pay restaurant or café bills demonstrate a better understanding of some food-related...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Project governance and Project Management Office (PMO)
Money & Business

Project governance and Project Management Office (PMO)

...Open University course M815 Project Management. You may also be interested in the OpenLearn course Managing virtual project teams, which looks particularly at leadership and communication in project team which are not collocated...Project governance and Project Management Office (PMO): Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs