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Language and creativity
Languages

Language and creativity

...introduction to the relationship between language and creativity, to the roles that linguistic creativity plays in culture and society, and to the different approaches to its study...This free course is an introduction to the relationship between language and creativity, to the roles that linguistic creativity plays in culture and society, and to the different approaches...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Decision trees and dealing with uncertainty
Money & Business

Decision trees and dealing with uncertainty

...Introduction - This course is concerned with using decision trees to simplify and formulate business decisions, typically using financial information. As decisions affect the future well-being of an organisation, they almost always rely on some form of forecast information. In this course, you will consider the subject of uncertainty in a financial context and meet a few...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Assessment in secondary geography
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary geography

...Introduction - This free course, Assessment in secondary geography, is designed for people who are learning to be a teacher, are in their first few years of teaching, or who are working in an educational setting. It will explore some of the key issues around assessing geography in secondary schools to help you to reflect upon and develop your assessment practice as a...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Getting started with French 3
Languages

Getting started with French 3

...Introduction - This week you will learn how to ask for directions to key places in French-speaking towns. You will also practise basic questions in French and revise prepositions of location. [Described image] This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course LGXF003 - Beginners French 3: absolument!...Week 1: Pour aller au musée, s’il vous...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Innovation in health and social care: social and historical
Health, Sports & Psychology

Innovation in health and social care: social and historical

...Introduction - In this free course on digital technologies and innovations in health and social care you will explore the types of innovations that are available and the impact this has on the individuals using them. This will provide you with insight into the potential advantages and disadvantages involved. Technology has fundamentally changed the way we live. The...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Climate change’s costs are still escalating
Nature & Environment

Climate change’s costs are still escalating

...introduction to the six-paper collection, UNU-IIGH research fellows Jamal Hisham Hashim and José Siri write that humanity faces “substantial health risks from the degradation of the natural life support systems which are critical for human survival. It has become increasingly apparent that actions to mitigate environmental change have powerful co-benefits for...
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Article 10 mins
Can I use 'we' and 'I' in my essay? Introducing corpus linguistics
Languages

Can I use 'we' and 'I' in my essay? Introducing corpus linguistics

...introduction to using a corpus to get answers in linguistics...[Should this be I or should this be we?] Should you be an I or a we when writing essays? An obvious way of finding out the answer to this question is by searching through successful essays. We could do this by simply reading example essays one by one and looking for the pronouns 'we' and 'I', counting the...
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Article 10 mins
How FMRI works
Health, Sports & Psychology

How FMRI works

...America offering lie detection services using FMRI. There are also several neuromarketing companies, using FMRI to gain insights into consumer thought and behaviour. How FMRI Works is adapted, with permission, from an article produced by the University of Oxford FMRIB Centre. You can read the full introduction to FMRI on their website. Discover more content like this...
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Article 10 mins