OpenLearn Courses

Census stories: bringing statistics to life in Milton Keynes

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This free course brings national census data to life by highlighting the vibrant stories of the diverse residents of Milton Keynes. This ‘new town’ with an increasingly mixed population, serves as ...

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• 2 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Certificate

Introducing Virgil’s Aeneid

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This free course offers an introduction to the Aeneid. Virgil’s Latin epic, written in the 1st century BCE, tells the story of the Trojan hero Aeneas and his journey to Italy, where he would become...

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• 7 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Certificate

The importance of interpersonal skills

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To succeed in management you need good interpersonal skills, you need to understand how to deal with other people. This free course, The importance of interpersonal skills, will help you gain an ...

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• 3 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Certificate

Potable water treatment

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Without it we are dead! Water is essential, but what processes must it go through to become fit for human consumption? This free course, Potable water treatment, will guide you through the ...

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• 20 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Certificate

Everyday English 1

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This free course, Everyday English 1, will develop and improve your essential speaking and listening, reading and writing skills for work, study and everyday life.

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• 48 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Certificate

An introduction to crime and criminology

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The course goes on to consider how social scientists and criminologists, in particular, study and seek to understand problems of crime. The course invites you to develop what can be called your ...

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• 6 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Certificate

Accessibility of eLearning

It is part of a teaching professional's skills to understand the needs of a diverse population of students. This free course, Accessibility of eLearning, introduces the challenges for disabled ...

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• 15 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Certificate

Climate justice for the next generation

This free course, Climate justice for the next generation, frames global warming and climate change in terms of social justice, human rights and intergenerational equality and emphasises how ...

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• 7 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Certificate

Collaborative problem solving for community safety

This free course, Collaborative problem solving for community safety, offers a range of techniques for community police officers, other community-based public service professionals and members of ...

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• 16 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Certificate

Collisions and conservation laws

This free course, Collisions and conservation laws, begins by explaining elastic and inelastic collisions and then goes on to show how collisions may be quantified using the conservation of linear ...

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• 5 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Certificate

Commercial awareness

This short course encourages you to look across your organisation, at your place within it and the value you create. It considers how getting different perspectives and widening existing ones ...

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• 2 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Certificate

Companies and financial accounting

This free course, Companies and financial accounting, introduces you to the legal characteristics of limited companies and how limited companies raise finance through ordinary shares and loan ...

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• 6 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Certificate

Comparing stars

Stars can necessarily be observed only at a distance. Comparing stars is a 16-hour free course that introduces the HertzsprungRussell diagram, an essential tool in understanding the nature of stars...

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• 16 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Certificate

Continuity and learning

This free course, Continuity and learning, has a practical and professional development focus. You will explore interactive dimensions of workplace learning: how people and workplace cultures ...

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• 12 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Certificate

Conversations and interviews

This free course, Conversations and interviews, explores how to ask and answer questions in interviews and conversations.

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• 5 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Certificate