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Listening for form in popular music
History & The Arts

Listening for form in popular music

...free course, Listening for form in popular music, explores form, or how music is organised in time. It looks at three strategies for communicating form – through the use of specialist terms (such as ‘chorus’ and ‘bridge’), alphabetic designations (for example AABA), and visual diagrams. It also considers how the form of a song works with its lyrics to create...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
An introduction to social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to social work

...free course, An introduction to social work, begins by introducing key ideas, values, the social work process and the skills needed for social work practice in the UK. You will then move on to look at social work with individuals. Finally this OpenLearn course considers reflective practice...Do you want to learn more about the social work role and develop your...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Mosquito resistance to insecticides
Science, Maths & Technology

Mosquito resistance to insecticides

...free course, Mosquito resistance to insecticides, further demonstrates how traits that are advantageous in one environment can have effects that are disadvantageous in other environments, a situation known as a trade-off...Learn about how allele frequency can change rapidly in a population in response to selective pressure by considering how evolutionary change can occur...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing
Money & Business

Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing

...free course: Course image: © Legal & General 2022 All images: © Legal & General 2022 Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity. Don’t miss out If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
An introduction to floodplain meadows
Nature & Environment

An introduction to floodplain meadows

...free course, An introduction to floodplain meadows, explores how these traditional landscapes can deliver a range of nature-based solutions that will improve our environment. The course will help you to learn about this unique environment, increasing your ecological knowledge, developing your skills in critical reasoning, and offering you an opportunity to contribute to...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Introduction to critical criminology
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to critical criminology

...free course, Introduction to critical criminology, provides a brief introduction to critical criminological thinking. It defines the ways in which critical criminologists take a 'critical stance' on the fundamental concepts, practices and institutions associated with crime and criminal justice systems...This free course, Introduction to critical criminology, provides a...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Migration
Science, Maths & Technology

Migration

...free course looking at the migrations of animals, with special reference to birds, and also introducing the themes of movement, selection and homeostasis...Migration is a free course looking at the migrations of animals, with special reference to birds, and also introducing the themes of movement, selection and homeostasis....Migration: Introduction - This course...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Managing virtual project teams
Money & Business

Managing virtual project teams

...free course, Managing virtual project teams, looks at knowledge and techniques which underpin team selection and then consider the additional expertise needed to manage teams in a virtual environment...Many projects are now ‘virtual’, i.e. some or all of the team are located remotely and may be working in different time zones. The project manager needs all the...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs