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5 tips on financially thriving
Money & Business

5 tips on financially thriving

...simple steps can help you regain control and start thriving financially. And when you’re ready to go further, dive into free OpenLearn courses and resources to boost your money know-how...[iconic graphic - budget] 1. Budget The first thing to do to gain financial stability is to create a budget. This should be a factual exercise that lists the cold hard facts - what is...
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Start writing essays
History & The Arts

Start writing essays

...simple as possible but not simpler. Don’t spell out every tiny detail. Writer's block Baroness Helena Kennedy’s cure for writers block is to go to the meat of the argument, then come back to the start later. A student's approach to planning Student Beth Lewis explains how she re-reads all her course notes, this helps her to adjusts and add to her research. Different...
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Irish Gothic story competition winners
OpenLearn Ireland

Irish Gothic story competition winners

...simple and chilling story. This piece has a strong sense of place, established through a nicely controlled use of local vernacular and a subtle rendering of the Irish landscape. There’s also a great sense of voice here too—short and spare sentences evoke the narrator’s heart-pumping reflections, only to give way to a heart-stopping discovery: he is accompanied by a...
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Exploring books for children: words and pictures
History & The Arts

Exploring books for children: words and pictures

...simple, even oversimplified. However, in this free course, Exploring books for children: words and pictures, you will learn how children’s books use words and pictures together in remarkably sophisticated ways to communicate both to young and older readers, drawing on examples from the classics, such as Beatrix Potter’s Tales of Peter Rabbit, and from contemporary...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Simplistic models for understanding Coronavirus: Helpful or harmful?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Simplistic models for understanding Coronavirus: Helpful or harmful?

...simple system process that has two stages: The population (Bucket 1, which is a population of 65 million) and the health system (which has limited capacity). This system is shown below. [Systems model depicting spread of coronavirus] Systems model in Footman 477 YouTube video The key problem with this model is its oversimplification of a complex dynamic process. One does...
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Article 15 mins
Sacrificial Metals
Science, Maths & Technology

Sacrificial Metals

...simple oxide Fe2O3 but is a compound that actually contains water molecules. It can be represented by Fe2O3.nH2O where n can vary according to the conditions under which the rust forms. The water molecules are incorporated into spaces within the crystal structure of iron oxide. Iron (and steel) is not weather-resistant yet it does find widespread use because of its...
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A new mission to the icy moons of Jupiter
Science, Maths & Technology

A new mission to the icy moons of Jupiter

...simple organic compounds on Enceladus. Starting with them, I’m trying to understand what more complex compounds might be created in the temperature and pressure conditions of the ocean floor of Enceladus. Specifically, I’m trying to understand if you could synthesise the kind of complex organic chemicals that life needs, such as sugars and amino acids. Grace: My focus...
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Group theory
Science, Maths & Technology

Group theory

...simple cases decide whether a given group is cyclic, and given a finite cyclic group, find a generator for a subgroup of a given order express a given finite cyclic group as the direct product of cyclic groups of prime power order and, given two direct products of cyclic groups, determine whether or not they are isomorphic express products of elements of a group defined...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs