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A day at Doncaster - and an hour out of Durham
History & The Arts

A day at Doncaster - and an hour out of Durham

...account for the trustfulness of the young woman on my other hand who wore her gold watch outside her dress, and who turned to the elderly stranger for sympathy in a certain supreme moment? This was when the crowd below crumpled suddenly together like the crushing of paper and the sense of something tragically mysterious in the distance clarified itself as the death of one...
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Article 5 mins
An introduction to visualising development data
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to visualising development data

...account for the fact that different numbers may increase together in different way, statisticians have actually come up with several different ways of calculating correlation coefficients that work in slightly different ways and that may give different values to each other when applied to the same datasets. As with all statistical measures, however, a large correlation...
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Video 45 mins
Continuity and learning
Education & Development

Continuity and learning

...account of your own ‘learning life’, drawing on your memory of the interview and any notes you took at the time. Try to become aware, as you begin to construct this biography, of how you are telling your life story and the learning that this narrative describes for you. You could use a first-person voice to narrate this biography (using ‘I’, ‘me’ and ‘my’)...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Ethics in science?
Science, Maths & Technology

Ethics in science?

...accountability, training and skills, safety. What should researchers do to ensure they follow good practice? Answer Researchers should: recognise their responsibility to conduct research of high ethical standards be aware of their organisation’s policies and procedures on good practice in research make sure that their research complies with these policies and...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
IT in everyday life
Science, Maths & Technology

IT in everyday life

...account in a filing system known as a database. Many banks also provide banking services via the internet, minimising the need for customers to visit a branch. Financial services have undergone huge changes in recent years as a result of the development of IT systems. This has led to the need for increased security procedures to combat new types of fraud. It has also led...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Developing high trust work relationships
Money & Business

Developing high trust work relationships

...account for the reasons you trust or distrust your chosen co-workers? What did you find most useful about each of the definitions or themes? Can you think of specific incidents that have impacted on your level of trust in each person? If so, what were they? Feedback The aim of this activity is to start to get you thinking and analysing the reasons why you would choose (or...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Form and uses of language
History & The Arts

Form and uses of language

...Accounts of the First World War, Brighton, Tressell Publications...Form and uses of language: Acknowledgements - Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Am I ready to be an apprentice distance learner?
Education & Development

Am I ready to be an apprentice distance learner?

...account use that. If you don’t yet have one, it’s free and very straightforward to set up. Your task is to compose a tweet (of no more than 280 characters) in which you write about what you are looking forward to as a distance learner. Tweet your message to @OpenLearn, using this hashtag: #ready4distancelearning. Congratulations – you have now taken your first step...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs