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The Roman Empire: introducing some key terms
History & The Arts

The Roman Empire: introducing some key terms

...money, loot and slaves all flowed to Rome. As for a ‘concept of empire’, that is to say of the ‘empire’ as a spatial and political entity, this too is hard to tease out from the rhetoric. As Whittaker (1994, pp. 10–30) points out, the ambivalent terminology which blurs distinctions between the geographical ‘empire’ and the ‘empire’ of applied power seems...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
Ethics in science?
Science, Maths & Technology

Ethics in science?

...money or for some other reason. These scientists are few and far between, but it is important that they are exposed for bringing science into disrepute...Ethics in science?: 2.1 Unethical scientists - Unfortunately there are examples of ‘bad scientists’ from every discipline in science, although the examples are few and far between. The fact that scientists publish...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Understanding autism Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding autism

...busy lifestyle. ILONA: Do you live at home? ALEX: Yeah, I do at the moment. But I do one day hope to have my own place. ...Week 1: Introducing the autism spectrum: 6 Brief history of autism: key players and milestones - We will end this introduction to autism with some historical background. Autism was first described in the early 1940s, and with developments in...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period
History & The Arts

Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period

...money was spent on family, religious or community festivals, and not reinvested in agriculture or used to purchase modern industrial goods (1994, p. 35). Thus it would seem that we could hardly describe society in these countries as ‘modern’ (see Figure 1). [Described image] Figure 1 Harvesting in Hungary, 1935. Photographer unknown. Photo: Fox Photos/Getty. Note the...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
IT: device to device communication
Science, Maths & Technology

IT: device to device communication

...busy sales office. The office might use a dedicated computer (a print server) to handle the data flows between the printer and the users' computers. What happens when the printer or print server breaks down, when the network breaks down or becomes so congested that it can no longer cope with the volume of data being transmitted? Perhaps we need two or more printers, a...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)
Education & Development

An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)

...business, with words like judge, jury, evidence, and justice coming in and giving John Grisham’s career a kick start. Latin was still used ad nauseum in church, but the common man spoke English, able to communicate only by speaking more slowly and loudly until the others understood him. Words like ‘cow’, ‘sheep’ and ‘swine’ come from the English-speaking...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Studying medicine bilingually
Health, Sports & Psychology

Studying medicine bilingually

...busy course as medicine you don’t often get the chance to reflect at all so to be able to do that in my own language, it just feels more personal and I get much more out of doing so. And also, when it comes to exams, I’m always given a Welsh copy of the paper, which, although I don’t tend to use to answer on, I always read questions on it and it’s useful to know...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Nuclear power: friend or foe?
Society, Politics & Law

Nuclear power: friend or foe?

...Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) website. Responsibility for nuclear energy has been transferred to a new Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC; http://www.decc.gov.uk/). It is probably easiest simply to search the internet for ‘a white paper on nuclear energy’. The white paper is the basis for the UK government’s view that ‘it is in the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs