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Desmond Morris - Earth In Vision
Nature & Environment

Desmond Morris - Earth In Vision

...concept, it might only be something like countershading or camouflage or use of venom, it might be some small thing but I would try to get a scientific idea secreted into one of these programmes, which of course were meant to be just popular programmes. I had an evangelical zeal to get rid of things like anthropomorphism and teleology, which infested a lot of… and...
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Video 1 hr 40 mins
Aquatic mammals
Nature & Environment

Aquatic mammals

...concept to pin down. Video 3 Hunting behaviour of dolphins Answer You may have noted the following points: Strategy and tactics: the dolphins identify a suitable target (a shoal of fish) and plan ahead (edging the shoal close to the bank or the surface of the water). Teamwork and cooperation: working together to achieve a common goal. The use of communication to...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Electronic applications
Science, Maths & Technology

Electronic applications

...concept of the Fourier series to non-periodic signals. It allows us to estimate the spectrum of a signal and perform a frequency analysis. * frequency response The response of a system (e.g. a filter) when we input sine waves at different frequencies (but equal amplitude). It tells us how the system will modify the spectrum of any input signal we feed to the system. *...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
An introduction to social work law
Society, Politics & Law

An introduction to social work law

...concepts: rights and responsibilities partnership accountability empowerment and anti-oppressive practice respecting diversity and responding appropriately to difference. Social work values are core to practice. The following sections and activities will help you to start thinking about what these values mean for social work practice...An introduction to social work law:...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Physical activity: a family affair
Health, Sports & Psychology

Physical activity: a family affair

...de facto responsibility for the ongoing domestic care and welfare of the child but not to those ‘in loco parentis’ who take only a temporary or intermittent caring role. (p. 1) This is the definition of the parent we will use for this free course along with the term ‘sibling’, which can be applied to any children living in the family home whether or not they have...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Voices from the Global South: an international field trip
Society, Politics & Law

Voices from the Global South: an international field trip

...de Atacama, a site of ongoing extraction of lithium from brine – in effect from water – in one of the driest parts of the world. Lithium is a key mineral in the development of lithium-ion batteries, which are central to the Global North’s ‘green transition.’ This extraction serves as an example of the ways in which the Global North’s solutions to the climate...
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Article 5 hrs
Managing my money
Money & Business

Managing my money

...concepts. Income is a flow of money received over time – such as salary or benefit payments. An income flow might be, say, £24,000 per year, or the same amount could be expressed as £2000 per month, or £462 per week. Wealth is a stock of assets owned and valued at a particular point in time. There are several ways of categorising these assets. The Office for National...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Getting started with French 1
Languages

Getting started with French 1

...de quelle nationalité’ ?’ What would you say? Try introducing yourself. Listen again to the people in Section 2, if you need a model to imitate. Here is another example for you. Bonjour. Je m’appelle Charlie. Je suis anglais et français. Remember to use ‘je suis,’ ‘I am,’ and take care to use the correct form of the word for your nationality. You might...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs