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Introducing vectors for engineering applications
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing vectors for engineering applications

...concept of vector quantities. Vector quantities are different from scalar quantities because they describe direction as well as magnitude. For this reason the arrow representation is useful to visually represent vector quantities...Introducing vectors for engineering applications: 1.1 Modelling motion with perpendicular vectors - Let’s consider, where two people, Alice...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Advanced German: Fragen der Identität
Languages

Advanced German: Fragen der Identität

...concept of identity in German reflect on the complex relationship between who we are and where we are from make notes and summarise information in German use direct and indirect quotes...Advanced German: Fragen der Identität: 1 Identität als Konzept - In diesem ersten Teil geht es um das Konzept der Identität. Sie sehen zwei Videoclips mit persönlichen Beispielen und...
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Level 3: Advanced 13 hrs
Physical activity for health and wellbeing in the caring role
Health, Sports & Psychology

Physical activity for health and wellbeing in the caring role

...concept helps control weight enhances cognitive function helps build and maintain healthy bones, muscles and joints enhances ability to perform activities of daily living provides opportunities to develop social contacts, relationships, and support groups. Of importance to carers is that many of the listed benefits can address and support the physical and mental health...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Introduction to music theory 1: form
History & The Arts

Introduction to music theory 1: form

...concepts from beyond Western common practice. The division is around 50/50 across the courses. The goal is to teach you the basics of one musical language while introducing you to aspects of many others. As you progress through each course, you will be asked to clap and sing musical patterns and play these on an instrument if you have one. You will listen to various...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Goya
History & The Arts

Goya

...conception, as a graphic image. That's the image that came to him when he heard that people were being butchered, and had their body parts strung up on trees. JANIS TOMLINSON It's important to say that even if the Enlightenment per se didn't happen, those little rays of hope that might have illuminated Spain - the Enlightenment ideas that might have arrived there - were...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Approaching prose fiction
History & The Arts

Approaching prose fiction

...concepts of various kinds of fictional writing, based on your knowledge and experience of reading. This is the kind of classification that Dennis Walder summarises on page 9 of The Realist Novel, although he also points out that these classifications are not fixed or rigid...Approaching prose fiction: 2.7 Style and language - What do we mean when we talk of a particular...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Supporting female performance in sport and fitness Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting female performance in sport and fitness

...concepts of women being too weak to play sport. Events of the last century have shown that women are equally as capable as men to participate in all sports. However, for women and men to have equal opportunities to fulfil their potential in sport, we must have an equal understanding of women’s and men’s bodies. These differences are often ignored in medical and sport...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Infection and immunity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Infection and immunity

...concepts. The course is split into four sessions to help you structure your learning. Each session ends with a quiz so you can assess how well you're doing. When you complete the course you'll receive a free statement of participation to help you to share your achievement. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course SDK100 Science and...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs