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Aquatic mammals
Nature & Environment

Aquatic mammals

...determine the size, shape and distance – even the internal structure – of objects as much as 800 m away. It is also powerful enough to allow them to stun, or even kill, their prey with a well directed burst of sound. As well as travelling faster in water, sound also travels further and with less distortion than in air. The other suborder of cetaceans – the baleen...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael
History & The Arts

Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael

...determination: are humans responsible for their actions, or had God predetermined the course of events? The secularised philosophies of history debate the extent to which people (agents) actually shape the course of events, or are shaped by them. Most notoriously, in the French philosopher Michel Foucault’s account of disciplinary society the subject is constituted by...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Art and the Mexican Revolution
History & The Arts

Art and the Mexican Revolution

...determine the critical reputations of artists from the past in the here and now. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course A344 Art and its global histories...Art and the Mexican Revolution: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: situate a key example of Mexican muralism within the post-revolutionary...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Social care in the community
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social care in the community

...determines what they do for each client. Home care workers need to manage relationships with clients so that there are clear boundaries between being friendly and being ‘a friend’. At times this makes considerable emotional demands. Personal qualities are important, but not enough. Home carers need technical skills too. People value home care that is reliable and...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
What do historians do?
History & The Arts

What do historians do?

...determine the factors that impacted on sentencing and execution. Other post-revisionist historians have researched the response to specific crimes like forgery or infanticide. To sum up this long and complex historiography very briefly, you could say that the Whig historians believed the Bloody Code system of law worked nationally as written but was too brutal and...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
An introduction to social work law
Society, Politics & Law

An introduction to social work law

...determination. An example might be a person who has dementia. While they may struggle to make decisions about complex issues such as financial matters, it cannot be assumed that they do not have the capacity to make any decisions, such as where they should live. The social worker has a responsibility to ensure that the person’s right to make decisions they are capable...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences
Education & Development

Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences

...determine a moral stance and argue their moral stance and examine the moral stances of others. Ethics is the individual's code of conduct, influencing their experiences and perceptions and mediated by the values and their culture. Naturally these answers are articulated in different styles, but the word ‘good’ appears explicitly in all of them, which is particularly...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs
Exploring the history of prisoner education Badge icon
History & The Arts

Exploring the history of prisoner education

...determined by trial and error and individual passion as well as based on data derived from studying prisoners...Session 1: The origins of prison education: 11 This session’s quiz - Well done – you have reached the end of Session 1. You can now check what you’ve learned this session by taking the end-of-session quiz. Session 1 practice quiz Open the quiz in a new or...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs