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Squares, roots and powers
Science, Maths & Technology

Squares, roots and powers

...Commons Attribution 2.0 Licence. All written material contained within course originated at The Open University. 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...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...open-content 2. Enjoyed this? Find out more about this topic or browse all our free course materials on OpenLearn – http://www.open.edu/ openlearn/ 3. Outside the UK? We have students in over a hundred countries studying online qualifications – http://www.openuniversity.edu/ – including an MBA at our triple accredited Business School...Week 2: Giving birth:...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Innovation, markets and industrial change
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation, markets and industrial change

...course opened and now closes. The use of a new technology causes a decline in the costs of production, which in turn encourages a rapid take-up by consumers of products embodying the new technology. This course has explored the factors affecting consumer demand. While the price of the product was found to be of crucial importance, socio-economic influences such as culture...
Number theory
Science, Maths & Technology

Number theory

...course, Number theory, is an extract from the Open University course M303 Further pure mathematics, a third level course that introduces important topics in the theory of pure mathematics including: number theory; the algebraic theory of rings and fields; and metric spaces. Students studying M303 develop their understanding of group theory and real analysis and see how...
Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Starting with maths: Patterns and formulas
Science, Maths & Technology

Starting with maths: Patterns and formulas

...Keith Glover Photography All other material contained within this course originated at the Open University. 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...
Teamwork: an introduction for school governors (Wales)
Education & Development

Teamwork: an introduction for school governors (Wales)

...Badged Open Course is part of a collection of training resources for school governors in Wales...Welcome This course provides a brief introduction to the field of teamworking. You can also access the other courses in this collection: An introduction to leadership for governors and Inclusive education: knowing what we mean. Teamwork plays an important and essential ......
Seeing institutions in different ways
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing institutions in different ways

...course is an adapted extract from the 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...
Robert Owen and New Lanark
History & The Arts

Robert Owen and New Lanark

...Open University course A207 From Enlightenment to Romanticism, c. 1780–1830. Source: R. Owen (1816), A New View of Society and Other Writings, with an introduction by John Butt, Dent, London, 1972, pages 14–90. Based on the edition of 1837, the essays were edited by Alison Hiley for the Anthology above. The video extracts are taken from A207 From enlightenment to...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs