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Careers education and guidance
Education & Development

Careers education and guidance

...Class Licence Number C01W0000065 with the permission of the Controller if HMSO and the Queen’s Printer for Scotland. Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been inadvertently overlooked the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity. Don't miss out: If reading this text has inspired you to learn...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age
History & The Arts

Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age

...De Roure, Andrew Cusworth and Hugo Leal. It was funded by the Open-Oxford-Cambridge Doctoral Training Partnership. 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. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Becoming an ethical researcher Badge icon
Education & Development

Becoming an ethical researcher

...FAQs. When you gain your badge you will receive an email to notify you and you will be able to view and manage all your badges in My OpenLearn within 24 hours of completing the criteria to gain a badge...Introduction and guidance: Moving around the course - If at any time you want to return to the start of the course, click on ‘Course content’. From here you can...
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Level 3: Advanced 18 hrs
Straen a phryder yn yr oes ddigidol: Ochr dywyll technoleg
Health, Sports & Psychology

Straen a phryder yn yr oes ddigidol: Ochr dywyll technoleg

...las yn gallu arwain i'r corff yn gynhyrchu llai o felatonin, sy’n amharu ar ein rhythmau circadaidd (hynny yw patrymau cysgu-deffro), gan ei gwneud yn fwy anodd i ni fynd i gysgu ac aros ynghwsg. Yn anffodus, mae cwsg gwael yn tueddu i olygu llai o wytnwch a lefelau uwch o bryder a straen. 3: Cydbwysedd rhwng Bywyd a Gwaith [Work life balance in Welsh] Yn y gorffennol...
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Article 10 mins
A brief history of evolution
History & The Arts

A brief history of evolution

...de Maupertuis proposed the spontaneous generation and extinction of organisms as part of his theory of origins. However, he advanced no theory of evolution. Georges-Louis Leclerc, a prominent naturalist of the time, explicitly considered, and rejected, the possible descent of several species from a common ancestor. The physician Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles...
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Article 30 mins
Essay and report writing skills
Education & Development

Essay and report writing skills

...de Montaigne, a French philosopher, developed the essay form in the 16th century. The term itself derives from the French word essai meaning ‘testing’ or ‘trying out’. The purpose was (and still remains): To try out or test a proposition or ideas in the context of other thinkers and in the light of personal experience and judgement. In Montaigne's day, the idea of...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective
History & The Arts

Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective

...class (although the audience probably includes more women and children). Not applicable Yes; it includes women and children. Yes; it includes nobles, as well as children and a higher proportion of women than in the performing group. 4 Which aspects of performance seem most important or highly valued? Size of group, volume, social interaction. Participation/ unity, ritual...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Can we get to a world without suicide?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can we get to a world without suicide?

...class life (1957), a semiautobiographical examination of the cultural upheavals of the 1950s, Richard Hoggart recalled his upbringing in Leeds. “Every so often one heard that so-and-so had ‘done ’erself in’, or ‘done away with ’imself’, or ‘put ’er ’ead in the gas-oven’,” he wrote. “It did not happen monthly or even every season, and not all...
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Article 15 mins