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First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship
Money & Business

First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship

...De Soto, President, Institute for Liberty and Democracy, Peru. HERNANDO DE SOTO: There is never enough money to alleviate poverty. There’s just not enough in the world. People will end up creating their own wealth the same way Europeans created their own wealth. Nobody came and aided you, you had to create it yourself. That’s the only sure way to do it. NARRATOR: Many...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
An introduction to exoplanets Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to exoplanets

...classes of planet and their basic characteristics. Watch the following video in which Carole Haswell talks about what you’ll be doing in the course this week. Carole Haswell: This week, you’ll be looking in more detail at the planets in our own Solar System. They’re the only planets in the Universe we can get such detailed information on, so it’s important to know...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
All my own work: exploring academic integrity Badge icon
Education & Development

All my own work: exploring academic integrity

...FAQs. When you gain your badge you will receive an email to notify you and you will be able to view and manage all your badges in My OpenLearn within 24 hours of completing the criteria to gain a badge. You can now go to Session 1...Introduction and overview: Acknowledgements - This free course was written by Karen New, with academic input from Ian Johnson, Dean Fletcher...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Studying mammals: The social climbers
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The social climbers

...De Brazza's guenons draw attention to their white-bearded dewlaps by shaking their heads when signalling aggression [p. 271], and dominant male vervet monkeys subdue subordinate males by flaunting their blue scrotums and red penises [p. 270]. The ability to use facial expressions has increased the complexity of social interactions between primates; therefore the brains of...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Psychological research, obedience and ethics
Society, Politics & Law

Psychological research, obedience and ethics

...class exam being taken by twenty undergraduate students. Phase two will take place a week later in a scheduled seminar, and consist of asking the same students, one after another, to tell the group as a whole whom they had voted for. Think about the three ethics principles and how you might expect a psychological study to meet each one, and then decide whether you think...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
The science of nuclear energy
Science, Maths & Technology

The science of nuclear energy

...classes, a riding school, ballroom dancing classes, ballet classes, tea dances, even, in the Windscale Club. MARGARET DAVIS All the people were young and ambitious, and there was chemists, there was teachers, there was physicists. There was all kinds of people. People from all over the world. We all got on wonderfully well, and it really was-- it was quite exciting....
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introduction to business agility
Money & Business

Introduction to business agility

...de-risking, to avoiding a ‘sunk cost fallacy,’ to locking in progress and value early and often. There are three key measures: Lead Time is the time from starting work on an item of value to getting it into the hands of a customer. Throughput is the count of items of value delivered into the hands of a customer in a time period. As lead time comes down, throughput...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Speeches and speech-making
History & The Arts

Speeches and speech-making

...de Gaulle in France, who was also faced with the challenge of African nationalism, used a very different metaphor, and that’s because he believed that African nationalism could be stopped. And he used the metaphor of the insurgents as vermin. And so what do we do with vermin? We exterminate vermin. Another really powerful rhetorical device is the technique of contrast...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr