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Linear programming – the basic ideas
Science, Maths & Technology

Linear programming – the basic ideas

...Open University course M373 Optimization, a third level applied mathematics course that will interest you if you need to create mathematical models or if you use numerical software in industry, science, commerce or research. It’s concerned with the skills needed to represent real optimization problems as mathematical models, and with techniques used in numerical...
Fundamentals of accounting
Money & Business

Fundamentals of accounting

...Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Week 4: Preparing the trial balance and the balance sheet: Introduction - In Week 3 you learned how to record transactions in T-accounts using debits and credits. This week you will learn the crucial process of ‘balancing off’ each T-account in order to record the correct figure for each account in the trial...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Nationalism, self-determination and secession
Society, Politics & Law

Nationalism, self-determination and secession

...Cartoons and Caricature, University of Kent. © News International Syndication. Adapted from Figure 2 © Empics Ltd; 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...
Who belongs to Glasgow?
Society, Politics & Law

Who belongs to Glasgow?

...Open University. Course image: amateur photography by michel in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Licence. Every effort has been made to trace all copyright holders. If further information can be supplied to amend any acknowledgements, the publishers will be pleased to do so at the first opportunity. Don't miss out: If reading this text has...
Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Engineering: environmental fluids
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: environmental fluids

...course is an adapted extract from the Open University course, T229 Mechanical engineering: heat and flow....Engineering: environmental fluids: Introduction - We all have constant daily experience of fluids, from breathing air to taking showers and checking weather forecasts, which means that we all have a great deal of intuitive knowledge about how they behave; this...
Am I ready to be a distance learner?
Education & Development

Am I ready to be a distance learner?

...Open University...Am I ready to be a distance learner?: Acknowledgements - This free course was written by Dr John Butcher and Jay Rixon. The content acknowledged below is Proprietary (see terms and conditions). This content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used...
The athlete’s journey: transitions through sport Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

The athlete’s journey: transitions through sport

...badge. Badged courses are a key part of The Open University’s mission to promote the educational well-being of the community. The courses also provide another way of helping you to progress from informal to formal learning. Completing a course will require about 24 hours of study time. However, you can study the course at any time ......
Note taking in relation to the Social Sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Note taking in relation to the Social Sciences

...Open University course. It was originally 23 minutes in length and was recorded in 1998. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 1 study in Sociology...Note taking in relation to the Social Sciences: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: identify the value and best way of note taking...Note taking in relation to the Social...