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Professor Sara Haslam on the Brontë sisters’ work
History & The Arts

Professor Sara Haslam on the Brontë sisters’ work

...despite not having money, despite living elsewhere than the south of the country – too! Take part in our Quiz: Which Brontë ​sister wrote it Explore the OU/BBC drama on the Brontë sisters, To Walk Invisible. Read Prof. Sara’s article: Written in blood: Family, sex and violence in Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre. Practise the Brontës’ art with our free courses...
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Money & Business

Developing career resilience

...free course, Developing career resilience, will help you to build your resilience and approach career-related change with greater confidence and motivation...Do you sometimes wish you were more resilient when faced with changes at work? Do you have career plans but feel unsure about progressing with them? If you do, then this free course, Developing career resilience,...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The database development life cycle
Science, Maths & Technology

The database development life cycle

...free course, The database development life cycle, has been designed to give you an overview of the developmental lifecycle for a database system, explaining the importance of data analysis and highlighting how database development differs from traditional software development...No idea how relational database systems are constructed? Did you know that they underpin the...
Managing coastal environments
Nature & Environment

Managing coastal environments

...free course, Managing coastal environments, looks at the example of the Blackwater Estuary in Essex, England, describing how the current state of the estuary came to be. It examines the contests and conflicts that centre on the estuary in terms of managing the environment for human needs and the needs of the other species who make their habitat there...Coastal...
Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Exploring evidence-based policing
Money & Business

Exploring evidence-based policing

...free course was written by Laurie Knell. It was first published in March 2021. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated and referenced in the course and in the acknowledgemetns section, this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Exploring family health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring family health

...free course, Exploring family health, will provide an understanding of what is meant by socialisation. You will recognise how a family can learn and support good and poor health behaviours alongside government interventions, such as the 5 A DAY strategy. Identification of people with Alzheimer's disease is steadily increasing and you will consider key features and...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Introducing the environment: Ecology and ecosystems
Nature & Environment

Introducing the environment: Ecology and ecosystems

...free course, Introducing the environment: Ecology and ecosystems, looks at how we can study ecosystems to explore the effect that humans are having on the environment...What is ecology and why is it important to our understanding of the world around us? This free course, Introducing the environment: Ecology and ecosystems, looks at how we can study ecosystems to explore...
Project governance and Project Management Office (PMO)
Money & Business

Project governance and Project Management Office (PMO)

...free course, Project governance and Project Management Office (PMO), introduces you to the important Project Management topic of project governance and how a Project Management Office can support governance. Project governance may be highly formalised, within the organisational governance, for large projects, or programmes or portfolios of projects. In smaller...