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Language and thought: introducing representation
History & The Arts

Language and thought: introducing representation

...course, Language and thought: introducing representation, introduces you to the key questions about how meaning is conveyed in language...How does what you say come to mean something? Does what you say inherently represent what you, the speaker, think it means, whatever that might be, or does what you say carry its own meaning, separate from your intentions in saying it?...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Working with charts, graphs and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

Working with charts, graphs and tables

...course, I was studying German. My ideas about what mathematics meant to me were not even considered and did not develop throughout. My next course (Third World Development) will be different, but I haven't started it yet. What we have asked you to do here is to look at your experience of mathematics in the context of your experience as a student, as well as in the past....
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Becoming an ethical researcher Badge icon
Education & Development

Becoming an ethical researcher

...course, Becoming an ethical researcher, explores the ethics of planning, carrying out and reporting research which involves human participants. It will sensitise you to issues that a researcher should consider to support ethical and well-justified decision-making. A wide variety of research scenarios will be used to stimulate individual reflection and discussion on the...
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Level 3: Advanced 18 hrs
Approaches to software development
Science, Maths & Technology

Approaches to software development

...course, Approaches to software development, presents an engineering approach to the development of software systems – a software engineering approach. The course pays particular attention to issues of software quality, in terms of both product (what is built) and process (how we build it)...This free course, Approaches to software development, presents an engineering...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Introducing public health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing public health

...course, Introducing public health, presents some key elements of public health and health promotion. It considers the scope and focus of public health and how it is subject to change and located within the wider global context...This free course, Introducing public health, presents some key elements of public health and health promotion. It considers the scope and focus...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Fire ecology
Science, Maths & Technology

Fire ecology

...course explores the role of fire as a natural disturbance in ecosystems. It introduces the concept of a fire regime and its influence on the type and distribution of organisms that occur in fire prone ecosystems. It also looks at some of the adaptations of plants that have evolved in these ecosystems and how animals either avoid or exploit the consequences of fire as a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Understanding science: what we cannot know Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding science: what we cannot know

...course, Understanding science: what we cannot know, investigates the boundaries of our understanding across numerous scientific fields. It asks whether it's possible that we will one day know everything, or whether some knowledge will always lie beyond the bounds of human comprehension...Is the universe infinite? Do we know what happened before the Big Bang? Where is...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Exploring evidence-based policing
Money & Business

Exploring evidence-based policing

...course, Exploring evidence-based policing, examines the basic elements of evidence-based policing and gives insight into how more evidence-based approaches can inform better policing practice...This course, Exploring evidence-based policing, examines the basic elements of evidence-based policing and gives insight into how more evidence-based approaches can inform better...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs