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Additive manufacturing
Science, Maths & Technology

Additive manufacturing

...University course T805 Manufacture materials design...Additive manufacturing: Learning outcomes - Having completed this course, you should be able to: describe additive manufacturing and explain its advantages and disadvantages explain the processes used in additive manufacturing for a range of materials and applications understand the role of additive manufacturing in...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Looking at, describing and identifying objects
History & The Arts

Looking at, describing and identifying objects

...University course A105 Voices, texts and material culture...Looking at, describing and identifying objects: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate skills of observation and description of objects interpret objects and work towards writing object life cycles understand artefact databases...Looking at, describing and identifying...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Challenges in advanced management accounting
Money & Business

Challenges in advanced management accounting

...University course B392 Advanced management accounting...Challenges in advanced management accounting: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand and describe strategic management accounting make decisions based on customer profitability using activity costing incorporate risk and uncertainty in project appraisal...Challenges in...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears
Health, Sports & Psychology

The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears

...University School of Journalism investigated media coverage of three scientific issues with social policy implications: climate change; cloning and genetic medical research; and the MMR vaccine. The study analysed the way the media covered the MMR controversy in 561 articles over a seven-month period. Then two nationally representative surveys were carried out in April...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Bill McKibben - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill McKibben - Stories of Change

...University call ‘legacy interviews’, long-form interviews, in which we talk to key players round the world on energy at some length about what got them interested in it and we probe solutions and problems a little more deeply. The idea is that they will remain on a special website with the Open University for scholars in the future, wondering, ‘What were they...
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Audio 5 mins
Seeing the light
Science, Maths & Technology

Seeing the light

...University/Channel 4 television programme about our homes which features The Times architecture critic Tom Dyckhoff. The programme, The Secret Life of Buildings, looks at many different aspects of architecture and design in exploring our relationship with the buildings around us. It also shows a number of experiments to illustrate how buildings can affect our behaviour....
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Working mathematically
Science, Maths & Technology

Working mathematically

...University course ME620 Mathematical thinking in schools...Working mathematically: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand some current issues in mathematics education, such as the relationship of mathematics content to mathematics processes understand the use of pedagogical frameworks used in teaching mathematics such as...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Forensic science and fingerprints
Health, Sports & Psychology

Forensic science and fingerprints

...University of Southampton published a paper in the peer-reviewed journal Forensic Science International, in which they presented some fingerprints to experts and asked them to confirm that they did not match a set of reference fingerprints. What the experts were not told was that the prints they were given had previously been positively identified as a match with the...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs