3,657 search results
Technology, innovation and management
Money & Business

Technology, innovation and management

...course is an adapted extract from the Open University course T848 Managing technological innovation...Technology, innovation and management: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the issues around defining ‘technology’, ‘innovation’ and ‘innovation management’ recognise the diversity of types of innovation,...
View course Technology, innovation and management
Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Data and processes in computing
Digital & Computing

Data and processes in computing

...course, Data and processes in computing, will help you to understand the forms of data that are handled by software and look at the various processes that can be applied to the data. These ideas are demonstrated through the use of a supermarket till and illustrate how simple data sets can be manipulated...This free course, Data and processes in computing, will help you to...
View course Data and processes in computing
Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
National identity in Britain and Ireland, 1780–1840
History & The Arts

National identity in Britain and Ireland, 1780–1840

...Open University course A225 The British Isles and the modern world, 1789–1914...National identity in Britain and Ireland, 1780–1840: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand how the concepts of ‘nation’ and ‘nationalism’ emerged during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries understand the processes that led...
View course National identity in Britain and Ireland, 1780–1840
Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Evolution through natural selection
Nature & Environment

Evolution through natural selection

...course, Evolution through natural selection, we describe the theory of evolution by natural selection as proposed by Charles Darwin in his book, first published in 1859, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. We will look at natural selection as Darwin did, taking inheritance for granted, but...
View course Evolution through natural selection
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Introducing environmental decision making
Nature & Environment

Introducing environmental decision making

...C01W0000065 with the permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Queen’s Printer for Scotland. © Photofusion 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...
View course Introducing environmental decision making
Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Library of Alexandria
History & The Arts

Library of Alexandria

...Open University course A863 MA Classical Studies part 1...Library of Alexandria: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the ancient and modern significance of the Library of Alexandria critically assess the evidence in the different accounts of its destruction understand the ways in which different modern contexts and ideologies...
View course Library of Alexandria
Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
The moral equality of combatants
History & The Arts

The moral equality of combatants

...course is an adapted extract from the Open University course A333 Key questions in philosophy...The moral equality of combatants: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the Jus ad Bellum / Jus in Bello distinction and be able to understand why it might need to be qualified understand and take a view on the idea of the moral...
View course The moral equality of combatants
Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
Mosquito resistance to insecticides
Science, Maths & Technology

Mosquito resistance to insecticides

...Open University course S317 Biological science: from genes to species...Mosquito resistance to insecticides: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: describe how natural selection drives changes in allele frequencies, using mosquito resistance to insecticides as an example...Mosquito resistance to insecticides: 1 The ester1 allele - In the...
View course Mosquito resistance to insecticides
Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs