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Using Turnitin effectively: building integrity into your writing
Education & Development

Using Turnitin effectively: building integrity into your writing

...education and assessment, reflecting your commitment to producing and submitting work that is authentically your own — something to be genuinely proud of as a student. Through guided activities and practical examples, this free course will show you how Turnitin can be used as a learning tool before you submit your final assessments, helping you to develop confidence in...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Energy resources: solar energy
Nature & Environment

Energy resources: solar energy

...technologies that are used to harness the power of solar energy discuss the positive and negative aspects of solar energy in relation to natural and human aspects of the environment...Energy resources: Solar energy: 1 Solar energy - The Sun will radiate energy until it ceases thermonuclear fusion, in around 5 billion years. The solar power that enters the Earth's system...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Women transforming classical music
History & The Arts

Women transforming classical music

...education, issues accessing scores of their compositions, and financial nervousness around programming works with which audiences might be unfamiliar. You will then turn your attention to how we might change things, covering where to find information and scores, creating new editions, and commissioning new works by women composers, which you will go on to consider in...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Introducing engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing engineering

...education, training and experience. Skills such as management, financial planning, mathematical aptitude and business strategy all fall within the scope of the professional engineer. This course does not attempt to teach these skills, but within it you will find pointers towards them and their significance in the engineering context. This OpenLearn course provides a...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Teaching secondary mathematics
Education & Development

Teaching secondary mathematics

...education and how this affects mathematics in the secondary school curriculum...This free course, Teaching secondary mathematics, will identify and explore some of the key issues around teaching mathematics in secondary schools. Through coming to understand these issues and debates, you will reflect on and develop your practice as a mathematics teacher and develop a...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?

...technologies that help surgeons see inside the body before they cut, many of which were developed to help diagnose cancer. Ultrasound – bouncing high-frequency sound waves off structures within the body to see what they look like – was pioneered in 1942 by Karl Dussik, a neurologist at the University of Vienna, who attempted to locate brain tumours using essentially...
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Developing resilience in sport
Health, Sports & Psychology

Developing resilience in sport

...education around those topic areas, so they're actually able to manage those stressors and put things within day to day practice that are going to protect them and be able to withstand those stressors. So I think for my mind, really, it's quite interesting that there's things that you are able to do that are actually going to help you and probably prolong your coaching...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
The 2015 Autumn Statement: First responses
Society, Politics & Law

The 2015 Autumn Statement: First responses

...Education Roger King, visiting professor, School of Management, University of Bath With the 17% cut to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills budget lower than feared thanks to a more optimistic economic outlook, higher education does not appear to have been badly treated in the spending review. Science spending will continue to be protected – but this time...
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