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Health and safety in the laboratory and field
Science, Maths & Technology

Health and safety in the laboratory and field

...education authority was prosecuted for not having produced written risk assessments. For field-work, the Boy Scout motto ‘Be prepared’ is important, as one of the major hazards is inclement or changeable weather. One may start up a mountain in bright sunshine, but the weather can quickly change to a blizzard; this can result in a dangerous situation because of loss of...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Introducing engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing engineering

...education, training and experience. Skills such as management, financial planning, mathematical aptitude and business strategy all fall within the scope of the professional engineer. This course does not attempt to teach these skills, but within it you will find pointers towards them and their significance in the engineering context. This OpenLearn course provides a...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Understanding musical scores
History & The Arts

Understanding musical scores

...education. DAVID ROWLAND And does that notation tell us anything about the rhythm? SUSAN RANKIN No. It tells us no more about the rhythm than the older pneumatic notation told us. But in fact, as long as people were singing that kind of music, there was no problem. Because they knew what the rhythm was, and they could read the text. And they could understand the...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Sustainable innovations in enterprises
Money & Business

Sustainable innovations in enterprises

...de-cluttering’ services and ‘self-storage’ providers. Process innovation: a novel way of creating and/or delivering a product or service. For example, a wider range of business services, such as text translation, are now provided more quickly and cheaply through online providers. Organisational innovation: a novel way of arranging the internal structures, procedures...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Teaching the First World War
Education & Development

Teaching the First World War

...de Guerre [French Iron Cross]. In addition, 171 men of the regiment were also presented with an individual Croix de Guerre for their valor. Several soldiers were also awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. The 369th was not the only black World War I regiment, nor the only one to fight valiantly, but it is perhaps the most famous. (Burger, 2017) Among the 171 members of...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Blood and the respiratory system
Science, Maths & Technology

Blood and the respiratory system

...De-oxygenated blood from the systemic tissues is carried to the lungs by the pulmonary arteries and has a PO2 of 40 and a PCO2 of 45 millimetres of mercury. As the blood enters the alveoli, the higher PO2 in the lungs drives oxygen shown in red out of the alveoli and into the blood. At the same time, the slightly higher PCO2 in the blood drives carbon dioxide, shown in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Everyday maths 1 (Wales)
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 1 (Wales)

...Education’s Flexible Learning Fund, the Higher Educational Funding Council for Wales and with the kind support of Dangoor Education, the educational arm of The Exilarch’s Foundation. This free course was written by Kerry Lloyd, Frances Hughes and Tracy Mitchell at Coleg Cambria, in partnership with Addysg Oedolion Cymru | Adult Learning Wales, Coleg Gwent, the NPTC...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
EPQs: writing up your dissertation
Education & Development

EPQs: writing up your dissertation

...wrote: ‘Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte_’._ –Blaise Pascal, Provincial Letters, Letter XVI, December 1656. Translation: ‘I wrote this very long [letter] because I didn’t have the time to make it shorter’. What do you think Pascal meant by this? [Photo of Claire]Figure 8 ClaireShow descriptionA photograph of Claire. Claire, whose research looks for evidence of......
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