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Animals at the extremes: the desert environment
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: the desert environment

...write a brief explanation of your answer. (a) Many small desert mammals are able to endure hot and physiologically stressful ambient temperatures by storing heat for a number of hours. (b) The coat of camels has an insulating effect in hot environments and camels shorn of their coat are likely to have a higher evaporative water loss. (c) Measurements of BMR in the hoopoe...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
The business of football
Money & Business

The business of football

...write your own article on the business of football. Jacky Hinton We hope you enjoy this final week – good luck with your learning. Ben and Jacky introduce you to Week 3, the final week of the course. Welcome to the final week of The business of football. So far you have been introduced to a range of ideas about business and management and shown how they might operate in...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Dutch painting of the Golden Age
History & The Arts

Dutch painting of the Golden Age

...writings and documents, in order to elucidate the significance of particular subjects and motifs. The leading proponent of the use of this approach to elucidate Dutch seventeenth-century painting, Eddy de Jongh, defines iconology as ‘the branch of art history that seeks to explain the content of representations in their historical context, in relation to other cultural...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Crime fiction in French: le polar français
Languages

Crime fiction in French: le polar français

...writing, listening and speaking skills. Studying this course should give you a basic overview of the importance of crime fiction in French society and the work of some prominent authors. You will also have the opportunity to extend your knowledge of French vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation and develop some key academic skills. This OpenLearn course is an adapted...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?

...writing conference? It was like the conversation of the month. KARL WIEDEGREEN We’re both understanding that the main goal as a teacher is to get those students to learn. Yeah, there new opinion. GEORGIA MELIDIS Got it. KARL WIEDEGREEN Got it? Teacher collaboration at Wildwood is really intentional. In our schedule when we have our preps, they’re aligned to each...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
The meaning of crime
Society, Politics & Law

The meaning of crime

...writing in an era of social and economic change. In the 1730s the population was growing fast, social mobility was on the increase, England's cities were beginning to bulge and the old ruling order began to get nervous about change; change that it could not direct or control. Defoe's comment is one example of a history of respectable fears. This notion was coined by the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Changing cities
Society, Politics & Law

Changing cities

...writing spanned work on the urban immigrant press, on the connections of newspaper circulation and urbanising culture and, notably, on the ‘natural’ history of the newspaper. For Park, the newspaper was a countervailing force against the complexity of the modern city, instilling among its readers an awareness of, and interest in, an unprecedented common urban cultural...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Who counts as a refugee?
Society, Politics & Law

Who counts as a refugee?

...writes: ‘I have never enjoyed housework, it is not in my nature; please try to find me somewhere to work with children’. Both had learned English in school; they thought they would be safe in England, and could probably find work; if not they would try America again. They married in July 1939, just before the outbreak of World War II. He fought a 5 year battle with...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs