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Am I ready to be an apprentice distance learner?
Education & Development

Am I ready to be an apprentice distance learner?

...communicate Use presentation software to present an assignment Know how to submit writing material like assignments electronically, for you tutor to mark and provide feedback Activity 3 Timing: Duration 20 mins Read this brief description of a new apprentice, Ronald Ronald has not studied in a while He is feeling a bit nervous about what to expect as an apprentice...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Talk the talk
Education & Development

Talk the talk

...community in the United States, you could have your own personalised map of that. So, our cell phones can now build a place history. This is how Paul did it. He did it with his iPhone. This might be what we end up with. This is what the physician would have in front of him and her when we enter that exam room instead of just the pink slip that said I paid at the counter....
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation
History & The Arts

Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation

...community to community...Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation: 1.1 The 7-note gamut - The great majority of Western music makes use of a pitch system comprising twelve more or less equally spaced notes. Musicians began to consolidate the system in Italy during the second half of the sixteenth century (Dyson and Drabkin, 2001). The 12-note pitch system...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
COVID-19: Immunology, vaccines and epidemiology Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

COVID-19: Immunology, vaccines and epidemiology

...community testing for the virus or virus-specific antibodies was carried out. This week you will learn how to measure antibodies against SARS-CoV2 using a versatile assay called ELISA – an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Much of your time will be spent in a virtual laboratory which will prepare you to do epidemiological and immunological studies in later weeks. Audio...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Microgravity: living on the International Space Station Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Microgravity: living on the International Space Station

...communication satellites are placed in orbits that are somewhere between geostationary and polar. But how else other than gravity does the ISS stay in motion around the Earth? The answer to this is circular motion. Watch Video 3 which demonstrates circular motion with water in a bucket. Pay attention to what happens to the water when the swinging motion is stopped. TOM:...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction
Digital & Computing

Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction

...community. Systems practice in the context of this unit refers to the practice of Systems within whatever profession or calling you follow. You can be a systemic medical practitioner, a systemic wood turner, a systemic technician or a systemic manager by applying systems thinking, insights and approaches to the complexity that you encounter in any of these or other...
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Level 3: Advanced 75 hrs
Yellow Fever: An OpenLearn reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Yellow Fever: An OpenLearn reading list

...community, attempting to define the incubation period of the disease. Josiah Clark Nott, a Connecticut native, settled in Alabama, had opportunity to study yellow fever at close hand in Alabama. In one epidemic affecting Mobile, he lost four of his children, even though he had moved them to the country, outside of the stricken city. His observations on epidemic spread led...
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Article 5 mins
Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision

...community, and I think those sorts of films, beyond traditional broadcast, are just as important in the environmental … let’s call it, television bit. Environmental programmes: Getting commissioned? No, I think the real challenge was that in television programming, so above the level of commissioning, for many, many, many years the E word, the environment word, was...
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Video 30 mins