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How to learn a language Badge icon
Languages

How to learn a language

...family and employers, and on social media. Badges are a great motivation, helping you to reach the end of the course. Gaining a badge often boosts confidence in the skills and abilities that underpin successful study. So, completing this course should encourage you to think about taking other courses. ['How to learn a language' digital badge]...Introduction and guidance:...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
A freelance career in the creative arts Badge icon
History & The Arts

A freelance career in the creative arts

...family, peer support, specialist websites and organisations. Mind Tools (no date) focuses more specifically on resilience in the workplace and suggests you also incorporate the following into your daily routine: Be aware of any negative thoughts and correct them in your mind – practise positive thinking. Learn from your mistakes and failures – they can all teach you...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Digital communications
Digital & Computing

Digital communications

...tree and star topologies are useful in fibre systems. Multi-way splitters and combiners (for the tree topology) and star couplers can be built from concatenated directional couplers as shown in Figure 20. Assuming the directional couplers are 3 dB couplers, the configuration in Figure 20(a) splits light equally to each of the four outputs. In the configuration in Figure...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Upper intermediate French: discovering French cinema
Languages

Upper intermediate French: discovering French cinema

...family. Fokus 21: organisation whose aim is to inform about citizens’ initiatives and encourage collective action, especially with regard to social and environmental issues. « Maso et Miso vont en bateau » (1975): a 55-minute-long feminist documentary, a caustic parody of a TV show in which Bernard Pivot (journalist and TV host) has as his guest Minister Françoise...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Talk the talk
Education & Development

Talk the talk

...families for the generations ahead. Quite convincing, isn’t he? But how exactly does he do it? Would you like to be able to talk like Martin Bean, former Vice-Chancellor of The Open University? Over the next few weeks you will discover the ingredients needed to give effective presentations that leave a lasting impression on your audience. You will watch and analyse...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Language and thought: introducing representation
History & The Arts

Language and thought: introducing representation

...tree surgeon saws off a branch, this does not normally have any meaning. There must be something special about the intention behind utterances (i.e. meaningful acts) that sets them apart from acts that lack meaning. But what is that special something?...Language and thought: Introducing representation: 2.6 Which intentions? - Grice makes three attempts to answer this last...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
The oceans
Science, Maths & Technology

The oceans

...tree trunks are often washed up on the beaches of eastern Greenland - yet no trees have grown there for thousands of years. Figure 15 is a schematic diagram of the surface currents. [Described image] Figure 15 A schematic diagram of the surface currents of the Earth in the northern winter. Red arrows represent warm ocean currents; blue arrows represent cool currents. In...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Squares, roots and powers
Science, Maths & Technology

Squares, roots and powers

...family that she might like to have to stay. She replied that she would like to have her two daughters the following week, so four bags of rice then would be a great help. The king agreed to this and suggested that she might like to think of having more of her family to stay. He said he would be prepared to double the number of bags he gave her each week. At this point his...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs