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Assessing contemporary science
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing contemporary science

...education (i.e. sources of science where you are not formally being taught). Sources could include, for example, television programmes, news websites, blogs, books, magazines, newspapers, social media, museums and science centres. In the light of your experiences, write a short summary (no more than 200 words) that addresses the following questions. Briefly, what is the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age
History & The Arts

Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age

...education. Many ‘open’ movements have challenged publishing companies’ control over intellectual property. Public funding bodies are increasingly favouring re-use of digitised collections in order to justify their investment in digitised resources. Creative Commons is one of the most important international licensing systems, which works alongside (not as an...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Sustainable innovations in enterprises
Money & Business

Sustainable innovations in enterprises

...education and creative learning and cultural activity. And to me people's cultural lives are as important as food and drink. Working from information that was coming out of the creative and cultural sector what they needed, you know, it was we need spaces to sell, we want there to be more events and festivals and activities, you know we want spaces for artists' studios so...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Challenges in advanced management accounting
Money & Business

Challenges in advanced management accounting

...Education Australia. Knight, F.H. (2012) Risk, Uncertainty and Profit, Dover Publications, Mineola, New York (republication of the Houghton Mifflin Company, New York, 1921 edition). Kotler, P., Wong, V., Saunders, J. and Armstrong, G. (2005) Principles of Marketing, 4th European Edition, Prentice Hall, London. Millman, T. and Lucas, M. (1998) ‘Observations on the...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Health and wellbeing in the ancient world
History & The Arts

Health and wellbeing in the ancient world

...Education and Language Studies at The Open University, about how to find out what counts as ‘health’, both today and in the past. Their discussion introduces debates over how health is defined, and addresses the term ‘wellbeing’ and why it is used. HELEN KING Hello. I'm Helen King, professor of Classical Studies at the Open University. And I'm joined today by...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
An introduction to exoplanets Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to exoplanets

...Education Resource Centre (SERC); https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-nc-sa/ 3.0/ Figure 5: Andonee - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=38635547 Figure 6: courtesy of Daniel Herron Figure 10: NASA, ESA, and M. Brown - http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/news/eris.html . Originally uploaded to en.wikipedia by
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Napoleonic paintings
History & The Arts

Napoleonic paintings

...education of her children seriously but she took up art seriously too and she could never quite reconcile the constraints of art and the constraints of domesticity. She shows that women can find a kind of fulfilment that is quite apart from the fulfilment that a domestic life and the love of a man can procure but what is perhaps to a feminist, disappointing, what is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Understanding and managing risk
Money & Business

Understanding and managing risk

...educational challenge for executive and non-executive directors who don’t necessarily come from a financial background. How are companies dealing with this? Paul Outridge: Well, certainly from our side, and we do have formal training courses for directors when they’re appointed. They now actually have a series of lectures and informal discussions, so they are actually...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs