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A freelance career in the creative arts Badge icon
History & The Arts

A freelance career in the creative arts

...Badged courses are a key part of The Open University’s mission to promote the educational well-being of the community. The courses also provide another way of helping you to progress from informal to formal learning. Completing a course will require about 24 hours of study time. However, you can study the course at any time and at a pace to suit you......
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
A tour of the cell
Science, Maths & Technology

A tour of the cell

...course is an adapted extract from the Open University course S294 Cell biology...A tour of the cell: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: list the main components of cells summarise the structure and function of the different components outline how cell ultrastructure is related to cell function identify cell organelles and the main...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Digital communications
Digital & Computing

Digital communications

...Open University, you may wish to explore the courses we offer in this curriculum area. By using optical fibre, very high data rates (gigabits per second and higher) can be transmitted over long distances (tens of kilometres) without amplifiers or regenerators. Optical fibre has completely superseded copper wires as the primary medium for cabled transmission over long...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Delacroix
History & The Arts

Delacroix

...of Eudamidas', c. 1643-4, oil on canvas, 110.5 x 138.5 cm, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen. Photo: SMK Foto; 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...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Becoming an ethical researcher Badge icon
Education & Development

Becoming an ethical researcher

...badged course is open to all and can be studied on its own as a standalone course. It has wide relevance to any researchers conducting studies with human participants: social scientists, designers, engineers, environmentalists, technologists and computer scientists. It has however been particularly designed to sit alongside and feed into postgraduate (level 7) accredited...
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Level 3: Advanced 18 hrs
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Languages

Describing language

...badge. Badged courses are a key part of The Open University’s mission to promote the educational well-being of the community. The courses also provide another way of helping you to progress from informal to formal learning. Completing a course will require about 24 hours of study time. However, you can study the course at any time ......
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Managing virtual project teams
Money & Business

Managing virtual project teams

...course is an extract from the Open University course M815 Project Management. You might also be interested in the OpenLearn course Project governance and Project Management Office (PMO), which looks at the roles and responsibilities in effective project governance and how this can be supported by a project management office...Managing virtual project teams: Learning...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?

...course is an adapted extract from the Open University course DD311 Crime, harm and the state Content warning Study in the social sciences – and criminology in particular – inevitably touches on sensitive and emotive topics that may be difficult and upsetting. This course explores harms against nonhuman animals that you may find difficult to work with, including images...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs