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IT: Information
Science, Maths & Technology

IT: Information

...Système International. The SI unit for length is the metre and for time is the second. In SI units, therefore, speed is expressed as metres per second. There is more about SI units in The Sciences Good Study Guide (Northedge et al., 1997). Activity 30 For a communications satellite to be in a geostationary orbit it has to be about 36,000 km above the Earth. How much...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
The Enlightenment
History & The Arts

The Enlightenment

...Le Devin du village – The Village Soothsayer) he highlighted the virtues of simple people in communion with nature and their own hearts. If the interest in nature expressed by most Enlightenment thinkers was less intense than Rousseau's, it is nevertheless true that all of them used the word ‘nature’ in a polemical sense, to highlight by contrasting with nature...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Music and its media
History & The Arts

Music and its media

...les regretz and Tous nobles cuers), set here by La Rue, were written to console the young Margaret following her dismissal from the French court in 1493 – she had been resident there since 1483 during her betrothal to Charles VIII of France, but he renounced the engagement and instead married Anne, Duchess of Brittany. The theme of regret reappears throughout the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
The many guises of the emperor Augustus
History & The Arts

The many guises of the emperor Augustus

...le Grand; https://commons.wikimedia.org/ wiki/ File:Kleopatra-VII.-Altes-Museum-Berlin1.jpg Figure 5: Eddie Gerald; Alamy Stock Photo Figure 6: Pascal Mannaerts; Alamy Stock Photo Figure 7: NADER DAOUD, STR; Associated Press; Alamy Stock Photo Figure 8: Handout; Getty Images Figure 9: Abaca Press; Alamy Stock Photo Figure 10: Kumar Sriskandan; Alamy Stock Photo Figure 11:...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Discovering chemistry Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Discovering chemistry

...Le Système International d’Unites, abbreviated to SI) was developed in France during the 18th century in an effort to create a unified and rational system of weights and measures. The SI system was adopted as the world standard in 1960. Mass and volume (of liquids) are the quantities chemists most often work with and later in this session you will look at how these are...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Succeed with maths: part 2 Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 2

...Système Internationale (SI) or International System, on which the metric system is based, and imperial. Both of these will be covered over the next two weeks, and this week will look in particular at measuring length. Watch the course author Maria Townsend introduce Week 1: Maria Townsend: This is my height measured in books, not a common unit of measurement but still an...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Academi Arian MSE Badge icon
Money & Business

Academi Arian MSE

...le yn unig. Meddyliwch am y technegau a’r adnoddau sydd ar gael i ddod â’r pris i lawr. Wrth gwrs, efallai y byddwch chi eisiau edrych ar sawl lle drwy wefan cymharu prisiau siopa ar-lein, ond tybed a oes talebau neu godau disgownt ar gael? A oes triciau y gallwch chi eu defnyddio, er enghraifft, os nad ydych chi’n gallu dod o hyd iddo’n rhatach yn unrhyw le...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Open education
Education & Development

Open education

...Le Cornu (2011) define them as: Visitors understand the web as akin to an untidy garden tool shed. They have defined a goal or task and go into the shed to select an appropriate tool which they use to attain their goal. Task over, the tool is returned to the shed. Residents, on the other hand, see the web as a place, perhaps like a park or a building, in which there are...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs