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Introducing engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing engineering

...write down as many things/people/activities as you can think of that are involved in getting a shower gel from raw materials to the container in your bathroom. Answer supply of vegetable oil, which requires farmers to grow oil seed oil processing plant harvester for crop plough to cultivate land fertiliser and pesticides roads to transport to and from farm bricks/cement...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Welsh history and its sources
History & The Arts

Welsh history and its sources

...writings about Welsh history and the evidence or sources upon which those writings are based. The variety of material contained in this unit not only continues the legacy of the original Welsh history and its sources project, it also extends it and makes it suitable for an online environment...Welsh history and its sources: 1.1.2 Sources and resources - This unit contains...
Level 1: Introductory 25 hrs
Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century
History & The Arts

Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century

...writing room. Like many male contemporaries, Murdoch is portrayed without any sign of her occupation, but is shown as a woman of culture – note the paintings, statue and books.] (By permission of the British Library, shelfmark: 010855.cc.8) © By permission of the British Library, shelfmark: 010855.cc.8 Figure 3 Portrait of Mary Murdoch in her writing room. Like many...
Art in Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

Art in Renaissance Venice

...writing in 1860, the impetus to research the Renaissance was a conviction of its status as ‘a civilisation which is the mother of our own’. 2 Contemporary historians, by contrast, are inclined to explore differences between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and our own times. 3 Not only is the map of the societies and cultures that produced Renaissance art...
Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Early modern Europe: an introduction
History & The Arts

Early modern Europe: an introduction

...writings of scholars from ancient Greece and Rome and a new emphasis on the use of observation as the basis of knowledge. This series of developments, called the Renaissance, in turn led to new ideas such as the model of the solar system with the sun at the centre while the planets revolved around it, proposed by Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543). The spread of these new...
Empires: power, resistance, legacies
History & The Arts

Empires: power, resistance, legacies

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence . The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Images Course image: the Battle of Adwa painting: The British Museum...
Working with diversity in services for children and young people
Education & Development

Working with diversity in services for children and young people

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Text Reading 1: Douglas, J. (2019) ‘Working effectively with...
Gamified Intelligent Cyber Aptitude and Skills Training (GICAST) Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Gamified Intelligent Cyber Aptitude and Skills Training (GICAST)

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. Course image: marchmeena29/iStockphoto.com Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity. Don't miss out: 1. Join over 200,000 students currently studying with The...