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Understanding dyslexia Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding dyslexia

...account of conditions like dyslexia. The course therefore presents dyslexia as a ‘case study’ in how different perspectives might be complementary to each other. In the UK, dyslexia is relatively common, and you may know about it through friends or family, or your own personal experience. Awareness has not always been widespread, however, and in some countries, there...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Listening for form in popular music
History & The Arts

Listening for form in popular music

...account other aspects of the song, including the meaning of the lyrics. More generally, it is helpful to conceptualise form in larger, rather than smaller, groupings, since this helps a broader picture to emerge from the detail...Listening for form in popular music: 5 Song structure and meaning - Table 4 presents a complete picture of ‘Midnight Special’, showing how...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Minerals and the crystalline state
Science, Maths & Technology

Minerals and the crystalline state

...account free of charge. This only takes a few minutes to do. Note that the interactive activities on the OpenScience Laboratory website require a modern web browser, such as Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Apple Safari or Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 or later. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course S209 Earth science...Minerals and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Studying mammals: The opportunists
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The opportunists

...account that mixes examples of mammalian diversity with the identification of characteristics that are common to many omnivores...Studying mammals: The opportunists: 2.1 Trophic levels - 'All flesh is grass'; this somewhat paradoxical biblical quotation really is only a restatement of what was more formally explained in previous units in this series. The materials needed...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Critical criminology and the social sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Critical criminology and the social sciences

...account in setting interest rates. However, insufficient account was taken of the risk of economic events, leading to much higher than expected rates of default. Now any banker knows there's a fairly straight line relationship between risk and return. If you're making unusually high levels of return, when profits are high, then you're most often carrying unusually high...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
An introduction to energy resources
Nature & Environment

An introduction to energy resources

...account for all the carbon in the natural surface system. Figure 1.12 The 2002 eruption of the volcano Mount Etna, which added carbon to the global carbon cycle. The plume of gas and ash that shows up was blown towards the south-south-east from the volcano's vent...Energy resources: An introduction to energy resources: 4.6 The fossil fuel 'bank' - During the period of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Particle physics
Science, Maths & Technology

Particle physics

...account of subatomic structure would have ended with these particles, but now a deeper layer of structure is known. It is believed that protons and neutrons are composed of structureless particles known as quarks, while electrons and electron neutrinos are merely examples of a broader class of particles known as leptons. Furthermore, there are other fundamental...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
An introduction to digital simulation in healthcare
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to digital simulation in healthcare

...account for human factors, such as stress and fatigue, which can impact performance. By training in realistic scenarios, healthcare professionals can develop strategies to manage these factors and maintain high standards of care. Standardised training: digital simulations provide a consistent training experience for all learners, ensuring that everyone meets the same...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs