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Housing beyond borders
Society, Politics & Law

Housing beyond borders

...studying the uneven impact of how the cities of Manchester and Salford in the North West of England are being opened up to processes of financialisaton, understood as the transformation of housing from a public good into a commodity. Researchers Rich Goulding, Adam Leaver and Jon Silver have been compiling data on new housing developments in Manchester and Salford in...
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Getting started with Italian 3
Languages

Getting started with Italian 3

...study enabling the development of intercultural communication skills. Learners can mix and match the short courses and study more than one course at a time. Once this course is complete you will be directed to OpenLearn’s hub for language content where you will be able to build on your newly found language skills. Now that you’re fully prepared, it’s time to start...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Hidden Maths
Science, Maths & Technology

Hidden Maths

...studying or not, you’ll find our free resources useful in working out everything from VAT to how much grass seed to order to re-do the lawn this summer. If you’re interested in studying Maths and Stats specifically, or taking a course that involves an element of these subjects, visit The Open University's Mathematics courses to find out more. Free courses and...
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Sustainability
Education & Development

Sustainability

...study what interests you from a wide range of subject areas. I have always been a keen environmentalist and been fortunate to support and work alongside the OU academics who author the Environment curriculum. In the current climate emergency, I have selected courses related to sustainability to explain both what is happening to the environment and also look at what we can...
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Climate change is triple risk to Europe
Nature & Environment

Climate change is triple risk to Europe

...studies confirm climate change’s triple risk to Europe. The heat is on, lives are at risk and the floods are arriving earlier...[Emergency pumps at work on England’s River Parrett in the 2014 floods.] Emergency pumps at work on the River Parrett in the 2014 floods. Researchers have just issued three separate climate warnings to the citizens of Europe on the same day,...
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Managing complexity: a systems approach
Society, Politics & Law

Managing complexity: a systems approach

...skill development for effective systems practice. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 3 study in Computing & IT...Managing Complexity: A Systems Approach: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: reflect on personal purposes and expectations of doing this course record personal initial and developing understandings of what the...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through

...skills and experiences students already have, so that through their own expectations and understandings of practice they can reflect on personal and institutional responses to enacting leadership that support the involvement of all. Recognising the calls for collaboration and ongoing development of practice, students will be supported to explore the experiences of...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Getting started with Chinese 2
Languages

Getting started with Chinese 2

...skills. Learners can mix and match the short courses and study more than one course at a time. Once this course is complete you will be directed to OpenLearn’s hub for language content where you will be able to build on your newly found language skills. Now that you’re fully prepared, it’s time to start on Week 1. kāshĭ ba ...Introduction: Acknowledgements - This...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs