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Histology, microscopy, anatomy and disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Histology, microscopy, anatomy and disease

...physical protection is needed to prevent infection, the epithelium is several layers thick, and is something like that of the skin. However, in most parts of the gut, the properties of the epithelium are rather different from those of the skin. Here the epithelium is only a single cell thick, with the apical membrane of these cells exposed to the lumen of the gut and the...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
The business of football
Money & Business

The business of football

...physically strong, and his physical presence was really impressive. You know, he was tall, he was like a man made out of steel. You know, when he looked at your eyes strongly then you did not know what was coming. He knew exactly how to make use of his power. Professor Paul Darby The problem that he had when he came to power was that FIFA was not the billion dollar...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems
History & The Arts

Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems

...physically disappearing up into heaven. More than in any of the other songs we have discussed, I would say that, by the end of ‘Ganymed’, we have the sense of having travelled a long way since the song began. There is one particular musical reason for this: as in ‘Prometheus’, the song ends in a different key from the beginning. It starts in A flat major and ends...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Dutch painting of the Golden Age
History & The Arts

Dutch painting of the Golden Age

...physical environment. One of the most innovative and challenging approaches to the art of this period is to be found in Svetlana Alpers’s controversial book The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century, in which she seeks to identify a distinctive northern tradition of ‘descriptive’ art that can be distinguished from the predominantly ‘narrative’...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy
History & The Arts

Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy

...physical – and interceding between one soul and another. For Aristotle, the imagination – or phantasia – was a kind of bridge between sensation and thought, supplying the images or ‘phantasms’ without which thought could not occur. Descartes argued that the imagination was not an essential part of the mind, since it dealt with images in the brain whose existence...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Studying mammals: The social climbers
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The social climbers

...physical properties of light, other than each band of wavelengths produces light of a particular colour (see Figure 1). [Figure 1] Figure 1 The visible spectrum, showing how the colour and properties of light relate to wavelength. Note that ultraviolet and infrared light cannot be seen by the human eye You may be familiar with the terms used to describe the shortest and...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Who counts as a refugee?
Society, Politics & Law

Who counts as a refugee?

...Physics, but as a Jew he was unable to obtain work; he lived with his parents on their savings. Although born in Berlin, his father came from Romania and his mother from Poland. He grew up with Romanian citizenship, was naturalized as a German citizen in 1932, but lost this citizenship again in 1935, under new laws designed to preserve the ‘purity’ of the German...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Exploring innovative assessment methods
Education & Development

Exploring innovative assessment methods

...physically in school or on a campus. This free course introduces the use of innovative methods for assessment within secondary, further and higher education. The course is highly practical in nature and guides educational and training professionals through the process of introducing flexible formative and summative assessments that can meet the needs of a standardised...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs