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Entrepreneurship – from ideas to reality Badge icon
Money & Business

Entrepreneurship – from ideas to reality

...De Haan in 1959 who passed on to his son in 1984. They provide packaged holidays, related insurance products (travel, caravan, motor) and then, more recently, branched into financial services products (travel money, credit cards) and latterly health care. As the changing demographics demonstrate, this is a growing market. You can see how the value proposition for older...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Returning to STEM Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Returning to STEM

...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. Get started with Week 1...Introduction and guidance: Acknowledgements - This free course was written by Clem Herman and Katie Chicot. Except for third party materials and...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?

...class city. A lot of people have walked past this crew and went, I'm a bit afraid. I don't know them. They're probably posh. They look at you and go, what does he know about our situation? We're living on fish fingers and microwave chips and stuff. If you could reach three of them, you've reached three families, you've reached three sets of grandkids, you know. You've...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Introduction to finite element analysis
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to finite element analysis

...Class Isle of Man TT on a moped with an objective to win, even if it had the wheels of the latest and greatest Superbike?) The temptation to analyse components is almost irresistible for the inexperienced, especially in an environment of one-click technology coupled with handsome and comforting contour plots. The bottom line is that FEA is not a trivial process, no level...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Recording music and sound
History & The Arts

Recording music and sound

...class, as well as where they lived, but a common thread that runs through the list above is that on many occasions music was created by people meeting together – at church, school or the local public house for example. Almost all of the music was live, with just the possibility of hearing a mechanical instrument such as a barrel organ. Of course, music was not...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Effects of pollutants on the aquatic environment
Nature & Environment

Effects of pollutants on the aquatic environment

...classed as endocrine disruptors, i.e. they interfere with the synthesis, secretion, transport and binding, action, or elimination of natural hormones in the body that are responsible for the maintenance of homeostasis, reproduction, development and/or behaviour (Burkhardt-Holm, 2010). Most endocrine disruptors are synthetic compounds (e.g. plasticisers such as bisphenol...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Unsolved problems in cosmology
Science, Maths & Technology

Unsolved problems in cosmology

...class of dark matter particles, which includes the neutralino. Often abbreviated to WIMPs. * white dwarf A stellar-mass compact object, with a mass below the Chandrasekhar mass (1.4 solar masses) supported against gravitational collapse by the degeneracy pressure of electrons. White dwarfs are the final products of the evolution of low-mass stars, after thermonuclear...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It
History & The Arts

Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It

...de théâtre – she makes an entry dressed like a woman, along with Celia and Hymen, the classical god of marriage. As you read the extract, make some notes on the following questions: What is the tone of this extract? How does it differ from the tone of the previous two extracts? When you have finished, click ‘Reveal discussion’. The numbered footnotes in the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs