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Primary science: supporting children’s learning
Education & Development

Primary science: supporting children’s learning

...account is taken of children’s existing understanding (including ideas that may be incorrect), children are unlikely to see the relevance or make connections with their own experience. Questions that ask a child to remember something or apply a rule are unlikely to reveal their conceptual understanding. Various techniques can be used to find out what ideas a child holds...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Approaching prose fiction
History & The Arts

Approaching prose fiction

...account of childhood experience. It even begins with the time-honoured phrase used for telling stories to children – ‘Once upon a time’. The diction of the remainder of the opening sentence seems very childlike, an excited-sounding unpunctuated flow with repetitions of childish terms such as ‘moocow’ and nonsense words like ‘nicens’. We are a long way from...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Introduction to music theory 1: form
History & The Arts

Introduction to music theory 1: form

...account for only a small part of the music in the world – each unit also introduces structures and concepts from beyond Western common practice. The division is around 50/50 across the courses. The goal is to teach you the basics of one musical language while introducing you to aspects of many others. As you progress through each course, you will be asked to clap and...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Engaging with children and young people
Money & Business

Engaging with children and young people

...account. Home is important but so too is what is going on in the rest of a child’s world. School and spare-time activities, for example can provide opportunities for enhancing resilience. (Scottish Government, 2010) The crucial importance of this network is underlined by Ellis and Dietz (2017) who highlight that the impact of adverse experiences during childhood is even...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Decision trees and dealing with uncertainty
Money & Business

Decision trees and dealing with uncertainty

...account of the differing probabilities of the potential outcomes of an event. Finally, you learned how to use these ideas in situations where there is a range of possible outcomes, some of which may be dependent on earlier outcomes. The technique used was that of a decision tree. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course B874 Finance for...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Retail marketing
Money & Business

Retail marketing

...account the necessity of discounting and giving allowances in some transactions. These requirements can influence the level of list price chosen, perhaps with an element of negotiation margin built in. Payment periods and credit terms also affect the real price received in any transaction. These kinds of decisions can affect the perceived value of a product. Because price...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Design thinking
Science, Maths & Technology

Design thinking

...accountant or a teacher or whatever. Hilary Cottam Dieter Rams gave me my prize and he said ‘This is really, really exciting because the best chair and the best shelf have been built now, so let’s use these skills for shaping society.’ So that was also really nice. Jan Chipchase When I was doing a Masters in user interface design, that really opened up my eyes to,...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Health and wellbeing in the ancient world
History & The Arts

Health and wellbeing in the ancient world

...account of his diagnosis of the wife of Justus. Read pages 95 and 101–103 of the following link to Galen’s account then watch Video 6: http://galen.bbaw.de/ epubl/ online/ cmg_05_08_01.php. (Note, you can reach these pages most easily by typing page numbers into the box on the right of the word ‘Seite’ (page) and then clicking OK). HELEN KING I'm Professor Helen...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs