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Introducing environmental decision making
Nature & Environment

Introducing environmental decision making

...concepts that are relevant to it recognise and explain how to identify some environmental issues that are of interest or concern and explain why recognise and explain what the authors of the course mean by a system, its boundary and environment...Introducing environmental decision making: 1.1 Approaches to decision making - Think about some of the decision-making...
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Money & Business

Developing business ideas for drone technologies

...concepts of identifying a business idea and mapping the stakeholders, in the growing industry of drone technologies. You were introduced to the ICAERUS Horizon EU project and its set of different Use Cases: five innovative developments of drone-related technologies which have potential to be integrated into new businesses. You looked at the nascent stage of the industry...
Exploring anxiety
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring anxiety

...concepts, dispelling some common misconceptions, and to help provide the context to inform your studies. This free OpenLearn course has been developed from the Open University course S826 Introduction to mental health science (Stage 1 in the Masters in Mental Health Science), and is suitable preparatory reading if you are considering moving on to postgraduate study in...
Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
The football World Cup: where sport and politics collide
Health, Sports & Psychology

The football World Cup: where sport and politics collide

...concept of national identity and understand how it has influenced the World Cup identify how the women’s World Cup has developed and illustrations of the political challenges faced by some women. Moving around the course In the ‘Summary’ at the end of each session, you will find a link to the next session. If at any time you want to return to the start of the...
An introduction to artificial intelligence
Education & Development

An introduction to artificial intelligence

...concepts introduced in the course. Finally, this course is a gateway into a wider world of thinking about and even working in the field of AI. The future will surely include significant amounts of AI technology in one form or another. The present course provides a taste of the full version of this course within the Open Centre for Languages and Cultures (explained further...
George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four
Society, Politics & Law

George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four

...concepts and ideas, is used appreciate the contemporary relevance of Orwell’s novel and the reasons for its enduring appeal...George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four: 1 Orwell’s route to Nineteen Eighty-Four - Nineteen Eighty-Four centres around totalitarianism. Despite this, George Orwell did not have any first-hand knowledge of living in a totalitarian state. He paid...
Living without oil
Science, Maths & Technology

Living without oil

...concepts, principles and language relating to the science and social issues appropriate to the development of alternatives to oil products demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of the impact of the use of oil on the future of our planet express and rewrite concepts in an objective and factually correct way make sense of information presented in different ways,...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Grammar matters
Languages

Grammar matters

...concepts of the field of study. The aim of the text is to move the argument forward as succinctly as possible. Information that can be taken for granted as understood therefore gets packaged up as long noun groups. The use of these abstract and often complex noun groups reflects the subject matter, while in Text A the nouns refer to the people and things that the story is...
Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs