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Science, Maths & Technology

Discovering chemistry

...Law of conservation of mass which is the cornerstone of any chemical reaction. The mass of reactant(s) you start with must equal the mass of product(s) you end up with...Session 5: Chemical reactions: 1.1 Chemical reactions – a first-hand experience - This is an account from around 150 years ago when American chemist Ira Remsen discovered, in no uncertain terms, what...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
An introduction to computers and computer systems
Digital & Computing

An introduction to computers and computer systems

...law - [An artistic concept of a processor.] Computers today are smaller, faster and cheaper than they have ever been. This statement could have been made at pretty much any time over the last 30 years and it would have been true; it’s doubtful that any other product has maintained such rapid development over such a long period of time. But just how fast has computer...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Seeing institutions in different ways
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing institutions in different ways

...law, democracy (or some other political system), or the market. Whatever you have chosen, though, it is likely that you will have chosen them because – using different means to enforce the ‘compliance’ that Brett speaks of – they will have governed your relations with other people in particular contexts and in society at large. They will have set the rules you...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements
Society, Politics & Law

Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements

...laws or rural depopulation can have profound effects on the nature, location, and extent of fire. Thinking in terms of entanglements encourages thinking which is alive to those influences that are hidden and difficult to trace, as well as those that are clear and obvious. Therefore, human decisions about land use, institutional behaviours, political policies, social...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Grammar matters
Languages

Grammar matters

...law in the previous section shows that ‘meaning’ can be a more complex affair than we might normally assume. It’s not only about the dictionary meaning of the words used, for example, or about the logical function of an utterance. In the case of the cross-examining example, the second, more assertive style of questioning conveyed the speaker’s superior authority...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
More working with charts, graphs and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

More working with charts, graphs and tables

...Law in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Licence. All materials included in this course are derived from content originated at the Open University. Don't miss out: If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring
Money & Business

Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring

...law was being broken. Are there any other ethical issues you want to discuss and come to an agreement on? You may, for example, want to agree that you will all commit to working together constructively and supportively, and/or that you will all attend punctually and be fully prepared. Agree aims and objectives for the coaching sessions (usually set with line managers/HRD...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Language and thought: introducing representation
History & The Arts

Language and thought: introducing representation

...laws of physics like other objects in the universe, and apt for study using scientific methods. Critics of the materialist world view are keen to stress how hard it is to show how both these assumptions could be true...Language and thought: Introducing representation: 1.4 Three characteristic difficulties in discussions of representation - I have hinted that accounting...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs