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Building confidence in using online forums
Education & Development

Building confidence in using online forums

...class discussion, so please avoid doing it online. Next, be careful with joking or sarcasm. Since these frequently rely on nonverbal facial cues or tone, they often do not come across very well in online communication. ROBOTIC VOICE: That post you made was totally sick. [CRICKETS CHIRP] SPEAKER: It's easy for someone to misunderstand your meaning or even become offended...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Exploring Ovid’s big ideas
History & The Arts

Exploring Ovid’s big ideas

...class of women, as imagined by an artist in 1915. Activity 17 An ancient vegetarian Timing: This activity should take about 15 minutes The following extract is from Pythagoras’ attempt to make the case for vegetarianism in Book 15 of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Stephanie McCarter’s translation. As you study this passage in this activity, you will be analysing the...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction
Digital & Computing

Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction

...class of drugs called analgesics (pain relievers) and antipyretics (fever reducers). It relieves pain by elevating the pain threshold and reduces fever through its action on the heat-regulating centre of the brain. Side effects of acetaminophen include yellow skin or eyes, hives, itching, bleeding (bloody urine, black stool, bruising, or pinpoint red spots), fever, sore...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
IT: Information
Science, Maths & Technology

IT: Information

...variables'. Besides the use of symbols being a shorthand, there is much that you can do by 'manipulating' them, but you will only be meeting this at a simple level in this course. There is more about algebra in The Sciences Good Study Guide, Maths Help, Section 9 (Northedge et al., 1997). Remember that the reason for discussing this calculation was to show that when using...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Language and thought: introducing representation
History & The Arts

Language and thought: introducing representation

...de (1879?) The Imaginary Invalid (Le Malade Imaginaire), trans. Roscoe Mongan, London, James Cornish and Sons (first published 1673). Miller, A. (1998) Philosophy of Language, London, UCL Press. Pinker, S. (1994) The Language Instinct, London, Allen Lane. Schiffer, S.R. (1972) Meaning, Oxford, Clarendon Press. Schiffer, S.R. (1987) Remnants of Meaning, Cambridge, Mass.,...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Introducing key global development challenges
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing key global development challenges

...de-escalation towards settlement of conflict (Kriesberg, 2011). In other words, there is more than one conflict at play. Here you have read a brief overview of the nature of conflict. When seeking an understanding of development processes, recognising the inevitable presence of conflict brings added uncertainty, unpredictability and complexity to the situation. Keeping...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
An introduction to exoplanets Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to exoplanets

...classes of planet and their basic characteristics. Watch the following video in which Carole Haswell talks about what you’ll be doing in the course this week. Carole Haswell: This week, you’ll be looking in more detail at the planets in our own Solar System. They’re the only planets in the Universe we can get such detailed information on, so it’s important to know...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Succeed with maths: part 2 Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 2

...variable that is being described – that is, the age for a child train fare – is always in the centre when defining a range of values with an upper and lower limit. This is the maths convention that is followed with ranges of values. This can be a little confusing, as you have to turn your logic around for the lower limit. You are in effect saying that 5 is less than,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs