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Making creativity and innovation happen
Money & Business

Making creativity and innovation happen

...simple: eliminates the need for air versatile: tire stiffness can be designed to limit energy transferred to vehicle lightweight: no inner frame needed for the tire/wheel assembly. (NASA, n.d.) NASA’s capacity to be creative in the face of non-negotiable constraints led to the development of a radically different type of tyre. It is not hard to imagine that in the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century
History & The Arts

Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century

...simple physical examination. Not surprisingly, they saw no value in bringing to the bedside the skills and knowledge acquired in the laboratory. One of the staff of St Bartholomew's Hospital was reported to have told his students, ‘When you enter my wards your first duty is to forget all your physiology. Physiology is an experimental science and a very good thing no...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
The moral equality of combatants
History & The Arts

The moral equality of combatants

...code that says, ‘Well, when we break into houses and steal things, we don’t cause unnecessary harm to the inhabitants and we don’t burn the house down and don’t torture the animals and that kind of thing, while we’re doing it.’ In other words, he’s somebody who’s engaging in completely wrongful action but obeys some rules that do constrain the wrongful...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
Developing good academic practice
Education & Development

Developing good academic practice

...simple definition. Plagiarism is using the work of other people to gain some form of benefit without formally acknowledging that the work came from someone else. Plagiarism always involves three main ‘players’: The plagiarist – the person who plagiarises. Sometimes, through ignorance or negligence, a plagiarist may not realise (or may claim not to realise) that they...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Applying your community engagement skills
Society, Politics & Law

Applying your community engagement skills

...simple terms, they are unsure what they can do and also unsure whether they have authority to do anything to help improve the situation. They have now turned to you as a trusted member of the community for support and guidance. Activity 7 Residents’ association meeting You have been asked to address the next meeting of the residents’ association which is due to take...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Getting started with Chinese 2
Languages

Getting started with Chinese 2

...simple Mandarin Chinese in everyday contexts! This OpenLearn course is an extract from the Open Centre for Languages and Cultures short course, LGXC002 Beginners Chinese 2: 开始吧 kāishĭ ba! After completing this free course, you may wish to register for the full course to continue your learning!...Have you always wanted to speak Mandarin Chinese? Have you even starte...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Introducing technology and innovation management
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing technology and innovation management

...simple model, developed by Tidd and Bessant (2018), of the innovation process as a series of phased activities, progressing from searching, selecting and implementing ideas in a context to capturing value for the innovating organisation. [Described image] Figure 5: The Search, Select, Implement, Capture (SSIC) model of the innovation process (Tidd and Bessant, 2018) To...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Studying mammals: Plant predators
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Plant predators

...simple, small undivided stomach, but this time an even larger caecum and colon where the microbes are housed and where fermentation takes place, as you can see in Figure 3. One disadvantage of this method is that by the time the food reaches the caecum and colon, it has passed the main absorptive region of the gut (the small intestine) and so less absorption of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs