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Education & Development

Succeed with learning

...educational institutions such as schools, colleges and universities – where the main business is teaching and learning. People, usually with special qualifications, provide learning which often leads to assessments – such as exams – and in turn leads to certificates, degrees or qualifications. Informal learning is more difficult to define because it covers so many...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
What can Earth tell us about Mars?
Science, Maths & Technology

What can Earth tell us about Mars?

...Education)...Michael Macey is a post-doctoral researcher with the AstrobiologyOU research group at The Open University. His research explores the microbial communities that live in some of the most extreme environments on Earth; environments that Michael and his colleagues believe closely resemble early environments on Mars. Using microorganisms isolated from these...
Discovering development management
Money & Business

Discovering development management

...education, environment) multiple levels (e.g. local, national, global; micro, meso, macro). Difference This quality is rooted in the reality that all of the interested parties come with their own specific identities, arising out of – and contributing to – their own specific histories (within broader histories involving different mixes of interested parties). These...
Picturing the family
History & The Arts

Picturing the family

...technology but also European traditions of portraiture...Picturing the family: 3.1 Introducing ideology in portraiture - [Figure 9 A painting of a nobleman seated at a desk] Image 9 Photographer/Painter: French School. Subject: Portrait of a nobleman seated at a desk, c.1750. Portraiture emerged as the first major commercial application of photography because the camera...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Dutch painting of the Golden Age
History & The Arts

Dutch painting of the Golden Age

...technology and culture. Through its large naval fleet, the Dutch Republic dominated world trade and established extensive colonial holdings, which formed the basis of its great wealth and power. Two defining features served to distinguish the Dutch Republic from the predominantly Catholic and absolutist structures of neighbouring European powers. First, although a central...
Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
How arguments are constructed and used in the Social Sciences
Society, Politics & Law

How arguments are constructed and used in the Social Sciences

...education, where there isn't a properly motivated workforce, you are clearly going to have a workforce there that can't compete properly, can't make the best use of the opportunities that exist in a developed country. And instead of course they have to compete directly by falling wages. Digby Anderson You were asked particularly about international comparisons. Are there...
Introducing philosophy
History & The Arts

Introducing philosophy

...education, which is in her long-term interest. As you will see when you read Warburton's book, Berlin thinks that both concepts of freedom are important, but he also warns that they can be abused. If negative freedom is not restricted, then the strong will have a licence to exploit the weak. (For example, most people would accept that the state should place restrictions...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
National identity in Britain and Ireland, 1780–1840
History & The Arts

National identity in Britain and Ireland, 1780–1840

...educational systems and a distinct Presbyterian established church. This Kingdom of Great Britain existed until 1801, when Ireland entered into political union with England, Scotland and Wales. Figure 1 provides some insight into the nature of this development. It shows a political cartoon published in 1799, when negotiations for a union between the Kingdom of Ireland and...