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Basic science: understanding experiments
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding experiments

...objects float or sink at all. This relates to the object’s density. Density is a concept that sometimes confuses people, but it is simply the amount (mass) of something that is contained within a certain volume of space. For example, if you have one person in an elevator, it is not densely packed, but if you try and squeeze ten people in, things are going to get a bit tight. In this case the number of people is the ......
Marketing communications in the digital age
Money & Business

Marketing communications in the digital age

...concept of attractiveness, physical or otherwise Respect Being admired owing to one’s personal qualities and accomplishments Similarity The extent to which a source matches an audience in terms of characteristics relevant to the endorsement (Source: Shimp, 2010) In the following activity, you will have the opportunity to test out the TEARS model in the context of a...
Succeed with maths: part 2 Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 2

...concepts start to look more complicated. Remember this when completing the next activity with another number trick...Week 4: Working with patterns and formulas: 2.2 Another number trick - Here is another number trick which uses the same techniques you learned in the last section to see how it works. Activity 6 Another number trick Timing: Activity 6 Another number trick...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Creating open educational resources
Education & Development

Creating open educational resources

...concepts of: open educational resources (OERs) issues involved in the creation, use and re-use, and pedagogy of OERs a range of tools and media to support you in developing your own teaching and learning practices. It will provide you with the skills and confidence to engage in further OER work as both creator and user. Find out more about studying with The Open...
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Society, Politics & Law

Working in the voluntary sector

...concept of role is key to understanding organisations. Many of the topics covered in this course are issues or activities that are relevant to other areas of life beyond a job or formal volunteering. You may have attended a public meeting and asked a question, or had an opinion afterwards about how the meeting was run. If you are a patient or a carer, you may have...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
MSE’s Academy of Money Badge icon
Money & Business

MSE’s Academy of Money

...concept of loan to value, you’re starting to get on the road to understanding how mortgages work. But in the old days when we talked about mortgages, it was all about what’s a good deal, what’s a bad deal, what you’re going to choose. These days, at the core to most mortgage decisions, is the question, will they accept me? Because they no longer throw out...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period
History & The Arts

Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period

...conceptions of both masculinity and femininity. However, the extent to which war generated lasting change has been disputed by successive generations of historians. Activity 9 Read Source 4, Adrian Bingham’s article ‘“An era of domesticity?” Histories of women and gender in interwar Britain’. Try to summarise the main trends in the historiography on the New...
Picturing the family
History & The Arts

Picturing the family

...concepts - We can conclude that the ideas relating to idealization, positive characterization and sexual stereotyping had a significant influence on the treatment of all 4 components of the portrait: expression, pose, background accessories and lighting. Victorian family photographs (like most other primary sources) are therefore selective, partial and biased. Early...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs