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Prices, location and spread
Science, Maths & Technology

Prices, location and spread

...based on the method of calculation can be of great practical interest, but the rest of this subsection will consider more fundamental differences between the mean and the median – differences which should influence you when you are deciding which measure to use in summarising the general location of the values in a batch. Many of the problems with the mean, as well as...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Getting started with French 1
Languages

Getting started with French 1

...Based on what you have learnt so far in this course, have a go at answering the questions in Activity 6. Activity 6 Listen to the recordings: which of the three options is the most appropriate response, do you think? What would you say? Click on the correct answer for each question. Select the answer for Question 1a here 1 Bonjour, ça va ? Au revoir. Oui ça va. À...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
The impact of supporting Ukrainians with free resources on OpenLearn
Education & Development

The impact of supporting Ukrainians with free resources on OpenLearn

...based skills. Further, platform metrics show that OpenLearn OER are now used by other educational institutions, as there were over 30,000 visitors referred to OpenLearn directly from 400 UK and US educational institutions (.edu and .ac.uk) over a 12-month period (February 2022–February 2023). (These data exclude links coming from within an institution’s logged-in...
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Article 10 mins
Cognition and gender development
Education & Development

Cognition and gender development

...based on external sanctions early on. Children’s socialisation history, it is argued, provides distinctive information about masculinity and femininity from birth – for example, clothes, nursery décor, and the toys and activities provided. Moreover, there is undoubtedly widespread modelling of gender stereotypes in the family as well as in wider culture. When...
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Article 15 mins
Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’
History & The Arts

Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’

...de la Societé Française de Philosophie 63, no. 3 (1969). © Society of College of France. Colour Plate 1: Front cover of Helen Langdon's Caravaggio: a Life, Chatto & Windus, 1998, hardback. Reprinted by permission of The Random House Group Ltd. Colour Plate 2: Caravaggio, St John the Baptist (Youth with a Ram),1602, oil on canvas, 132 × 97 cm, Musei Capitolini, Rome....
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks
History & The Arts

Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks

...based on Holmes’s testimony. On his return, Captain Holmes has lodged his report concerning the usefulness of pendulum clocks, which goes far beyond my expectations. I could never have imagined that clocks of this first, preliminary mode of construction could have succeeded so well, and I had reserved my principal hopes for the new ones. But since these have already...
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Article 10 mins
Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...based on the availability of land and sea to support a population (see Box 1). Box 1 The ecological footprint The ecological footprint (EF) is a measure of the environmental impact of a population (e.g. a household, city or nation) based on the area of land and sea theoretically required to indefinitely support its lifestyle at a given level of technology. The ecological...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Succeeding in postgraduate study Badge icon
Education & Development

Succeeding in postgraduate study

...based on your prior knowledge and experience, how studying for a postgraduate course may differ from undergraduate study (i.e. your first degree). Activity 1 Checking your expectations Timing: Allow approximately 10 minutes What are your expectations about postgraduate study, and what this may involve? What do you suppose are key differences between postgraduate and...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs