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COVID-19: Immunology, vaccines and epidemiology Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

COVID-19: Immunology, vaccines and epidemiology

...et al. (1998) Immunology, 5th edn. Mosby International Ltd Audio Visual Video 1: Immune defence: © The Open University. Diagram: adapted from Male. D, et al (eds) (2020), ‘Immunology 9th edition’, Elsevier Video 2: Apoptosis: ‘Immunology Interactive 3.0’ by Professor David Male, Professor Jonathan Brostoff and Professor Ivan Roitt. Copyright © David Male....
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Questioning crime: social harms and global issues
Society, Politics & Law

Questioning crime: social harms and global issues

...et al., 2013). This report documented almost half a million direct and indirect deaths between 2003 and 2011, including deaths caused by failures of heath, sanitation, transportation and other basic systems and wider infrastructure as a result of the ‘War on Terror’. This evidence suggests that taking an approach which focuses only on harms resulting from ‘crimes’...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Effective writing in professional social work practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Effective writing in professional social work practice

...et al 2020) so learning to write effectively for practice is a very important element of professional development across the career. This course focuses on developing your understanding of professional writing in social work and the ways in which you can become an effective writer. [A photograph of a messy desk.] Figure 2 In this section you will: learn about the WiSP...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution
History & The Arts

Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution

...mode of life opposed to the conventional or dominant. * Genre Within the arts in general, genre refers to the category of a specific work, such as a novel, play or symphony. Within Popular Music Studies, genre refers to the specific style of a piece of music; for example, pop, rock, folk or jazz. Many of these also have specific sub-genres, where the genre refers to an...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Visions of protest: graffiti
History & The Arts

Visions of protest: graffiti

...modes of visual communication, in particular images, symbols and written words. Graffiti can be used as form of territorial marking, personal branding, flirting, grieving, declaring love, expressing discontent or of showing support for or membership of a particular political group, football team, style of music or music subculture (most notably hip hop) and much more....
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners
History & The Arts

Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners

...mode of expression: phrases such as ‘when it had a kind of unrealness about London’ and ‘as if is not London at all’ (p. 1) reflect the idioms and rhythms of Caribbean speech. Although the narration remains in the third person, I think there are some subtle shifts within that perspective in this passage. Frequently, the narrator seems to represent Moses’...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Babylonian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Babylonian mathematics

...mode.) In this interpretation, the columns would be not of numbers related reciprocally, but of the same number expressed in two different ways, as a unit fraction and as a sexagesimal fraction. This is an attractive idea, illustrating once again that it is harder than we should like to identify definitively even simple-looking tables. Fortunately, for our purposes, we do...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Introducing healthcare improvement
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing healthcare improvement

...et al., 2013) about integrated care quality improvement pilots. Integrated care broadly means the capacity for different parts of an organisation (departments or staff groups) to work together to offer good quality care. It also includes the capacity for healthcare professionals to work with social care professionals to offer a joined-up service. This research brief looks...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs