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Intermediate Spanish: Understanding spoken Spanish
Languages

Intermediate Spanish: Understanding spoken Spanish

...communication gives clues to meaning and helps the understanding of foreign language visual media. Box 4: Reading body language One of the significant advantages of watching a video or a film is that it offers you visual support. You gain information about the context and the characters and also pick up gestures, facial expressions and body language that can help you...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?
Society, Politics & Law

From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?

...community-based fault lines (for example, in the case of Northern Ireland)...Week 1 Brexit as symptom: understanding the political geography of the vote: 3 Mapping the divisions - The outcomes of the referendum have been powerfully represented in maps. The process of mapping highlights the more complex patterns of the vote. Three maps are presented in Figure 2. The one in...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Design

...communication provided to convince others of the quality of your work. Figure 1 showed various designs for a telephone. Differences might not only arise in the form of the product, though. There may also be differences in the physical or scientific principles that different designs exploit. Figure 2, for example, shows a conventional light bulb and a light-emitting diode,...
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Level 1: Introductory 28 hrs
Exploring depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring depression

...communication within the marriage might be triggering some of their problems. [LAUGHTER] But I was also struck by the burdensome nature of such mutual secrecy. Depression is so exhausting. It takes up so much of your time and energy, and silence about it really does make the depression worse. And then I began thinking about all the ways people make themselves better. I'd...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Can renewable energy sources power the world? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Can renewable energy sources power the world?

...Communities, [online] available from: http://eur-lex.europa.eu (accessed 20 September 2011). Week 3...Week 2: Solar energy for heating and daylighting: Acknowledgements - This free course was written by Godfrey Boyle from Chapter 3 of Renewable Energy (Boyle, G. (ed) OUP, 2012)), originally authored by Bob Everett, and updated in 2017 by Sebastián Tyrrell. Except for...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Vaccination
Science, Maths & Technology

Vaccination

...communities. In the nineteenth century, the English parliamentary historian Thomas Macaulay graphically described its effects: Smallpox was always present, filling the churchyard with corpses, tormenting with constant fear all whom it had not yet stricken, leaving on those whose lives it spared the hideous traces of its power, turning the babe into a changeling at which...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Successful IT systems
Digital & Computing

Successful IT systems

...communicate, usually electronically, instead. For example, it is possible to set up a wiki and add suggestions over a period of a few days. Brainwriting is attractive because it can overcome some of the problems associated with brainstorming but another big advantage it offers is that people can participate remotely...Successful IT systems: 4.2 Identifying stakeholder...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Social problems: Who makes them?
Society, Politics & Law

Social problems: Who makes them?

...communities) and those which are ‘public’ (that is, to be handled through forms of social intervention or regulation). One factor that may make a difference to whether things are perceived as private troubles or public issues is scale or volume. If only a few people experience some form of trouble, then it is likely to remain a private matter and not attract public...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs