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The science of alcohol Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

The science of alcohol

...De Montfort University. He is also a visiting Fellow at The Open University. Get started with Week 1...Introduction and guidance: Acknowledgements - This free course was written by Louise MacBrayne. It was first published in February 2019. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Teaching mathematics Badge icon
Education & Development

Teaching mathematics

...base ten, special things happen when you multiply or divide by powers of 10. A place value table is useful for explaining what happens. Now watch Video 8 for more information on using a place value diagram. INSTRUCTOR: Since we use a number system in base 10, special things happen when you multiply or divide by powers of 10. A place value table is useful for explaining...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Astronomy with an online telescope

...de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and administrator of the Teide observatory, gives an introduction to the site and to the various telescopes and facilities there. NARRATOR: The Teide Observatory belongs to Canarian Observatories and managed by the Institute Office of the Canaries. We have a lot of different countries here in the Teide and also in the Roque. Here, for...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction
History & The Arts

Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction

...based on claims made by Sayers about the sophistication of the form (Ascari, 2007, p. 170). It is through formal innovation, in fact, that crime fiction is, on the one hand, able to remain popular and satisfying in execution, and, on the other, potentially able to serve and reflect deeper concerns in the years following the cataclysm of the First World War; this is a task...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Asset allocation in investment
Money & Business

Asset allocation in investment

...based on investor questionnaires offered by an internet trading company. A publicly available version of the model portfolio approach for individual investors is the APCIMS Private Investor Index Series, launched in the late 1990s and now called the FTSE/WMA Private Investor Index Series. At that time APCIMS offered three model portfolios aimed at providing UK private...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Population ageing: a global health crisis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Population ageing: a global health crisis?

...based on data from UNDESA Population Division, World Population Prospects: The 2015 Revision) Figure 1 The percentage of the population aged 60 years or older across the world in 2015 and 2050 a.In 2015, which of the following countries was the ‘oldest’ in the world in terms of the percentage of its population aged 60 years and older? United Kingdom Japan Sweden...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Developing your skills as an HR professional
Money & Business

Developing your skills as an HR professional

...based on formal knowledge, which practitioners are expected to be able to demonstrate. For example, a senior HR practitioner might be expected to be able to develop, or lead the development of, HR strategies and policies in a range of areas and to have the formal and specialist knowledge to be able to do this. There are a range of skills, however, that are not peculiar to...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners
History & The Arts

Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners

...based in Britain. As Robert Winder has shown, the reception offered to these servicemen was generally hospitable; those West Indian soldiers posted to RAF bases, for example, ‘were embraced as friends by their neighbours; some even resolved to come back once the fighting was over’ (2004, p. 330). The story was very different, though, for many who did come back and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs