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Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks
History & The Arts

Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks

...changing his course, after which, finding a favourable wind, he steered towards the coast of Africa, heading directly North North-East. But when he had sailed four or five hundred leagues in this direction, the Masters of the three ships under his command, fearing that they would run out of water before they reached their pretended destination, proposed that they should...
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EPQs: writing up your dissertation
Education & Development

EPQs: writing up your dissertation

...changes. And back up your backup. Once a week, make a backup copy of your files (your dissertation, your notes and the resources you have collected) to an external hard drive, memory stick or cloud storage. Timings & deadlines Work out how much time you have to write your dissertation, and how much time you want to allocate to each section. (There’ll be more on this...
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Passports: identity and airports
Society, Politics & Law

Passports: identity and airports

...changed little until the 1980s. In 1972, new watermarked, blue security paper and laminated photographs were introduced. Eye colour and wife's maiden name were dropped. In this 1982 passport, a space for spouse's photograph is included, a practise that was discontinued in 1988. By the end of 1988, the first burgundy, machine readable passports, featuring the words...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice
Education & Development

Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice

...changing educational structures, resources, technologies and differing ideas about what it means to be literate. There is a complex interaction between the agency of learners and the structures that shape their educational settings and experiences. In this course, we use the term ‘agency’ to mean all people’s inherent capacity to engage, interpret and make choices...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Language in the real world
Languages

Language in the real world

...change over time. Of course there are also other aspects of human communicative behaviour which could be included under the heading of language and increasingly, linguistics has also started to focus on these. Examples include: non-verbal communication such as gestures, body language and facial expressions communication through visual images, music or movement...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Approaching plays
History & The Arts

Approaching plays

...idea from a reasonable king is about to be shattered by one small word denoting change, ‘But’, which is immediately given additional emphasis by the alliteration of ‘blast’ and ‘blows’. Henry has to prepare his men's minds for battle. After satisfying them (and the audience) that he is a peace-loving, reasonable king, he then needs to get them to reject this image, throw off any constraints on their blood lust, such ......
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
So, you want to be a nurse? A brief introduction to nursing
Health, Sports & Psychology

So, you want to be a nurse? A brief introduction to nursing

...change your basic values and beliefs when encountering scenarios that may challenge your views, but that you do take a particular approach when these beliefs and values conflict with the organisation. Generally, you hold on to your basic values when you enter into nursing, but you may find times when these personal values are challenged. An example might be that you hold...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health Badge icon
Education & Development

Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health

...changes are a work in progress and can be variable in success. Research undertaken by The Open University has revealed that learners experiencing mental ill-health are very reticent to ask for support from their educator (Lister et al., 2021). Learners reported that knowing their educators were supportive and genuinely cared about their mental health needs made a big...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs