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Basic science: understanding experiments
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding experiments

...free course, Basic science: understanding experiments, introduces you to science-based skills through simple and exciting physics, chemistry and biology experiments...This practical, hands-on course aims to help you start thinking like a scientist by carrying out experiments at home and making scientific observations. You will carry out simple experiments to extract the...
Introducing Union Black
Education & Development

Introducing Union Black

...free course, Introducing Union Black, aims to build your confidence as a change agent for equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging...This free course, Introducing Union Black, aims to build your confidence as a change agent for equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging. For some learners, this will be a journey into a little-known or misunderstood history and...
Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
An introduction to electronics
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to electronics

...free course, An introduction to electronics, will show how electronic devices and systems pervade everything we do, and teach some of the basic ideas...Electronics is fundamental to modern life. Using an interactive website, videos, and easy-to-use electronic circuit design and simulation software, this free course, An introduction to electronics, will show how electronic...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Investigating psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Investigating psychology

...free course, Investigating psychology, allows you to explore psychology using an interactive resource. You can follow links to people, contexts, perspectives and methods to discover information, images and links from across psychology. The resource also links each of these people, contexts, perspectives and methods so you can see how each element is connected in the...
Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past

...free course, History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past, consists of a series of essays, drawn from material contained in the Reading Experience Database, that illustrate different aspects of reading in Britain during the period from 1450 to 1945. These essays are designed for you as the reader to dip in and dip out, allowing you to pick which essays best...
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Science, Maths & Technology

Astronomy with an online telescope

...free course shows you how to navigate the night sky, and introduces the wide variety of objects it contains. You will develop a hands-on understanding of telescopic observations using the Open University’s own robotic telescope facility COAST sited on the island of Tenerife. Supported by your own measurements we illustrate how stars evolve, and study variable stars. For...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Living without oil
Science, Maths & Technology

Living without oil

...free course, Living without oil, explains why developing alternatives to oil is an essential and urgent task for humanity...Crude oil is currently our most important global source of energy. It is vital in the manufacture of many modern materials. But the worlds supply of oil is finite, its price is unstable and our reliance on oil has damaging environmental consequences....
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Employee engagement
Money & Business

Employee engagement

...free course explores three key themes: employee engagement, employee involvement and collective aspects of employee relations...Engagement is a key buzzword in 21st century management. Strategic human resource management rests on the belief that people are the key to achieving competitive advantage. Employees need to be seen as assets to be developed, not costs to be...
Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs