Science Courses and Certifications

Assessment in secondary science

8 ratings at OpenLearn

This free course, Assessment in secondary science, will identify and explore some of the key issues around science assessment practice in secondary schools. Through these issues and debates, you ...

• OpenLearn
• 11 hours
• On-Demand
• Free Certificate

Basic science: understanding numbers

11 ratings at OpenLearn

This free 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.

• OpenLearn
• 12 hours
• On-Demand
• Free Certificate

Machines, minds and computers

11 ratings at OpenLearn

Computers are becoming smarter and may soon become intelligent. This free course, Machines, minds and computers, looks at what intelligence is, how computers may become so, and whether they ever ...

• OpenLearn
• 10 hours
• On-Demand
• Free Certificate

Basic science: understanding experiments

7 ratings at OpenLearn

This free course, Basic science: understanding experiments, introduces you to science-based skills through simple and exciting physics, chemistry and biology experiments.

• OpenLearn
• 12 hours
• On-Demand
• Free Certificate

Assessing contemporary science

1 rating at OpenLearn

It will explore the ways in which scientific knowledge develops, undergoes peer review and is communicated. The second half of the course will focus more closely on a specific scientific topic –...

• OpenLearn
• 9 hours
• On-Demand
• Free Certificate

Studying natural sciences bilingually

3 ratings at OpenLearn

Thinking of studying a Natural Sciences course? Considering studying through the medium of Welsh and want to know what the benefits are? Not sure whether your Welsh is good enough? If you’re ...

• OpenLearn
• 1 hour
• On-Demand
• Free Certificate

Курс состоит из четырёх модулей, где вы сможете найти видео-лекции, презентации, интересные задачи, а также дополнительные материалы, которые помогут вам успешно изучить одну из наиболее динамично развивающихся отраслей – сферу инновационного предпринима…

• Stepik
• 4 hours
• On-Demand
• Free Certificate

Forensic science and fingerprints

8 reviews

This free 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 ...

• OpenLearn
• 10 hours
• On-Demand
• Free Certificate

Discovering chemistry

32 ratings at OpenLearn

Chemistry lies at the centre of our modern life, playing a part in areas as diverse as the development of new drugs and materials, analysing our environment through to more mundane activities such ...

• OpenLearn
• 24 hours
• On-Demand
• Free Certificate

Microbes – friend or foe?

25 ratings at OpenLearn

Microbes often get a bad name. Whilst some of them do cause disease, others play vital roles in recycling nutrients in the soil to enable plants to grow, and in breaking down human waste. Without ...

• OpenLearn
• 2 hours
• On-Demand
• Free Certificate

Climate change: transitions to sustainability

21 ratings at OpenLearn

Human societies have to take urgent action to end their dependences on fossil fuels. We have to alter the whole path of our development and decision making in order to make our societies both ...

• OpenLearn
• 5 hours
• On-Demand
• Free Certificate

Studying Darwin

40 ratings at OpenLearn

Please note that this is not a course containing teaching materials. It collates links to a variety of courses and other resources about natural selection, its relevance to different environments ...

• OpenLearn
• 1 hour
• On-Demand
• Free Certificate

Histology, microscopy, anatomy and disease

16 ratings at OpenLearn

This free course, Histology, microscopy, anatomy and disease, will help you understand the basic principles of light microscopy, before introducing you to histology, concentrating on the structure,...

• OpenLearn
• 12 hours
• On-Demand
• Free Certificate

Watching the weather

12 ratings at OpenLearn

This free course, Watching the weather, describes how meteorological observations are made looking upwards from the surface of the Earth, looking downwards from satellites in space and from ...

• OpenLearn
• 10 hours
• On-Demand
• Free Certificate

A tour of the cell

23 ratings at OpenLearn

This free course, A tour of the cell, contains a blend of text and a multimedia interactive component to look at the uniformity and diversity within cells. Fundamental to understanding how cells ...

• OpenLearn
• 12 hours
• On-Demand
• Free Certificate