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Advancing Black leadership Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Advancing Black leadership

...course, learners will develop and explore skills to empower themselves as leaders...This free course, Advancing Black leadership, explores techniques members of the Black and Minority Ethnic communities can use to influence people and organisations with power. Advancing Black leadership builds on and consolidates learning from the Introducing Black leadership course....
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Basic science: understanding numbers
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding numbers

...course, Basic science: understanding numbers, explains how you can use numbers to describe the natural world and make sense of everything from atoms to oceans...This practical, hands-on free course will help you to start thinking like a scientist, by using numbers to describe and understand the natural world. It might be the size of the Greenland ice sheet, the number of...
Language in the real world
Languages

Language in the real world

...course, Language in the real world, explains and illustrates why a knowledge about how language works (i.e. ‘linguistics’) is helpful – some might say essential – for different aspects of our everyday lives. It provides an introduction to ideas around what language is and to the field of Applied Linguistics, which is dedicated to exploring and addressing...
Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Forensic science and fingerprints
Health, Sports & Psychology

Forensic science and fingerprints

...course, Forensic science and fingerprints, covers how science can make fingerprints easier to study, how they are used in court and some of the questions about the extent to which fingerprint identification is sound and scientific. Students will learn the principles used in classifying and matching fingerprints (often called marks)...This free course, Forensic science and...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Art in Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

Art in Renaissance Venice

...course, Art in Renaissance Venice, considers the art of Renaissance Venice and how such art was determined in many ways by the city's geographical location and ethnically diverse population. Studying Venice and its art offers a challenge to the conventional notion of Renaissance art as an entirely Italian phenomenon...This free course, Art in Renaissance Venice, considers...
Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
An introduction to electronics
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to electronics

...course, An introduction to electronics, will show how electronic devices and systems pervade everything we do, and teach some of the basic ideas...Electronics is fundamental to modern life. Using an interactive website, videos, and easy-to-use electronic circuit design and simulation software, this free course, An introduction to electronics, will show how electronic...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Kinematics of fluids
Science, Maths & Technology

Kinematics of fluids

...course examines the basic kinematics of two-dimensional fluid flows. Section 1 introduces the differential equations for pathlines and streamlines. Section 2 introduces a scalar field, called the stream function, which for an incompressible fluid provides an alternative method of modelling the flow and finding the streamlines. Sections 2 and 3 derive the stream...
Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online

...course, Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online, will help you to understand online security and start to protect your digital life, whether at home or work. You will learn how to recognise the threats that could harm you online and the steps you can take to reduce the chances that they will happen to you. With cyber security often in the news today, the course...