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Exploring Ovid’s big ideas
History & The Arts

Exploring Ovid’s big ideas

...et error. [Described image] Figure 9 Photograph of a statue of Ovid that still stands today in Constanta, Romania (the location of the town that was called ‘Tomis’ in Ovid’s time). The statue was put up in 1887 and is the work of an Italian sculptor, Ettore Ferrari. The same sculptor also made a copy of this statue which was installed in Ovid’s hometown Sulmo in...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Public health approaches to infectious disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Public health approaches to infectious disease

...adapted extract from the Open University course : SK320 Infectious disease and public health...Public Health Approaches to Infectious Disease: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: define and use, or recognise definitions and applications of, each of the glossary terms for the course summarise the main features of the current global burden...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
On-screen graphic design: The early years of television
Science, Maths & Technology

On-screen graphic design: The early years of television

...adapted the film rostrum camera so that it was able to record straight to video instead of film. This allowed the results to be instantly available and ended the wait for film to be processed. Computers first became involved when they were used to control the rostrum camera. By attaching motors to all its moving parts, allowed complicated moves and techniques such as...
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Article 15 mins
Neighbourhood nature
Nature & Environment

Neighbourhood nature

...adapted to grow successfully with less light, as well as saplings of canopy tree species. The herb or field layer may include ferns such as the broad buckler fern (Dryopteris dilatata), flowering plants such as the wood anemone (Anemone nemorosa) and grasses. The ground layer is composed of mosses, lichens, ivy (Hedera helix) and fungi. On the woodland floor there is...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Learning to teach: an introduction to classroom research
Education & Development

Learning to teach: an introduction to classroom research

...et al, 2003). Can the results be generalised? Someone who hears about or reads about your research might decide that, based on their experience then it is authentic and seems sensible. Does the data support the conclusions? This is more likely if there is more than one source of data collected over a period of time or if the findings have been checked with the...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Rural entrepreneurship in Wales
Money & Business

Rural entrepreneurship in Wales

...adapted extract from the Open University course Q91 Business Management...Rural entrepreneurship in Wales: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the importance of how living rurally influences your business or social enterprise objectives explore the feasibility of a business idea plan a strategy for the development of your...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom
Society, Politics & Law

Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom

...adapted extract from the Open University course W250 Evidence law...This free course gives an overview of the law of expert evidence, including practice and procedure, the duties and liabilities of experts, the question of how non-experts can adjudicate between the views of experts, and the increasing mathematisation of scientific evidence. The various issues are finally...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Innovation, markets and industrial change
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation, markets and industrial change

...Adapted from Outdoor Photography, August 2001, no. 15, p. 4) Questions What do you think are the main similarities between the arguments in this case study and the second paragraph of ‘The new economy’ quotation discussed in Section 1? Figure 2 illustrates a number of different makes of digital camera. What other products do you normally associate with the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs