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Discovering chemistry Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Discovering chemistry

...change on forming Li+? Answer No the composition of the nucleus is unchanged, you are just taking away an electron – remember these are located outside the nucleus. These positively charged ions are referred to as cations. However elements can also form negative ions known as anions, where electrons have been added to the neutral atom, giving and extra negative charge....
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Exploring sport coaching and psychology Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring sport coaching and psychology

...change how you view and study sport. You will consider how the mind, the body, the environment and training techniques all contribute to optimum fitness...Have you experience of sport or fitness coaching either as a participant or a coach? Are you inquisitive about how sport works behind the scenes? In this free course, Exploring sport coaching and psychology, you will...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Software and the law
Science, Maths & Technology

Software and the law

...changes or redrawing a diagram or re-implementation an animation is permitted. Compilations and databases are explicitly protected as intellectual property. When software first became an area of concern in the second half of the 20th century, copyright was used for its protection. In 1991 the European Union issued a directive requiring all member states to use copyright...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Gene testing
Science, Maths & Technology

Gene testing

...changing fast and they are becoming much more accurate. But the important point is that it is possible to test for more genes, and more variants of those genes, using very small samples of material. For an adult, a cheek scraping these days provides ample cells for most DNA testing. At this stage, we should distinguish testing from genetic screening. Genetic testing is...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee

...change over time. Indeed, in her reading of Shelley’s The Revolt of Islam (1817) in August 1831 when she criticised him for being ‘too immaterial’, Barrett Browning also admitted that ‘as I read him on, I may reverse this opinion’ (UK RED: 893)...History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee: 3 Vernon...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace
Education & Development

An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace

...changing and shifting in response to the total situation’ (Anderson, 1959). Interactive/transactive Communication is ‘the process by which individuals try to exchange ideas, feelings, symbols, meanings to create commonality’ (Schmidt et al., 2007). Symbolic The words we speak or the gestures we make have no inherent meaning. Rather, they gain their significance from...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Art and visual culture: medieval to modern
History & The Arts

Art and visual culture: medieval to modern

...changed through history? This free course, Art and visual culture: medieval to modern, explores the fundamental issues raised by the study of western art and visual culture over the last millennium. It moves from discussing the role of the artist and the functions of art during the medieval and Renaissance periods to considering the concept and practice of art in the era...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
International relations: exploring territorial divisions
Society, Politics & Law

International relations: exploring territorial divisions

...climatic divides to the many varied pathways to development chosen by different states and leaders that have led to very different outcomes, and along with it, forms of inequality and division. The current international system, made up of a range of actors including states and international organisations, is only one form of how international relations are organised and...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs