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Criminology beyond crime

This 2-hour free course introduced critical criminology and its stance on the concepts, practices and institutions associated with crime.

Introduction to critical criminology

This 10-hour free course explored the city of Rome during the reign of the emperor Hadrian and the impact Hadrian had on the appearance of the city.

Hadrian's Rome

This 16-hour free course explored the main events of the French Revolution and its significance in the shift from Enlightenment to Romanticism.

French Revolution

In this 24-hour free course on how to start writing fiction the main focus was on the central skill of character creation.

Start writing fiction

Mastering systems thinking in practice

Amazon Life (U116, Environment

Improve your understanding of spoken French

Beginners’ Spanish

Do you want to improve your language skills and communicate more easily and effectively in Spanish? This free course, Beginners? Spanish: food and drink, focuses on buying and ordering food and drink at a restaurant or bar. You will be able to use some basic vocabulary relating to food, drinks, meals, quantities and measures. In this OpenLearn course you will listen to Spanish speakers in a variety of situations.

Beginners' Spanish: food and drink

Thisÿ1-hourÿfree course explored how to develop the skill of summarising text, in preparation for university study.

Summarising text

Writing what you know

This 8-hour free course examined particular issues that arise in bringing a project to a close, and ways of evaluating a project on its completion.

Completing the project

This 7-hour free course explored how to develop the skill of critical reading, in preparation for university study.

How to be a critical reader

This 20-hour free course explored how social problems are identified, defined, given meaning and acted upon, and looked at competing explanations.

Social problems: Who makes them?

Writing reports and assignments can be a daunting prospect. Learn how to interpret questions and how to plan, structure and write your assignment or report. This free course, Essay and report writing skills, is designed to help you develop the skills you need to write effectively for academic purposes.

Essay and report writing skills

This 5-hour free course explored the term 'motivation', the factors affecting motivation and the most influential theories of motivation.

Motivation and factors affecting motivation

Learn about the essential numerical skills required for accounting and bookkeeping. This free course, Introduction to bookkeeping and accounting, explains the fundamental rules of double-entry bookkeeping and how they are used to produce the balance sheet and the profit and loss account.

Introduction to bookkeeping and accounting

David Robinson

Marion Hall

The Human Brain: The CD-ROM Has a simple, easy-to-use layout, thet guides the student through an introduktion to the human nervous system, using text, voice.over and interactive images,including a rotatable model of the brain which allows various substructures to be highlighted

This 5-hour free course, Children's perspectives on play, you are asked to put yourself in the place of young children and to think about their view of play and their reasons for playing. When children have personal freedom to choose and make decisions about what and who they want to play with, as well as where they want to play, they are highly self-motivated and active in their engagements with everything around them. In this course you will think about how you listen to children?s perspectives, why it is important and also consider the choices children make about where they play and why.

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Books

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