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Empires: power, resistance, legacies
History & The Arts

Empires: power, resistance, legacies

...human history. They have spanned the globe. They have influenced the way we are governed, our systems of trade, how we use technology, our relationships with the natural world. They have shaped how we have seen, mapped and divided the world. They have profoundly affected how we have understood and represented each other. This free course, Empire: power, resistance,...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Effective writing in professional social work practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Effective writing in professional social work practice

...resources based on the research which would inform students, practitioners, managers and policy makers. The following statement sets out the mission for writing in social work: Everything about social work writing should reflect the views, voices and experiences of the people who are being written about. Writing should be respectful, and respect peoples’ differences...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Biofuels
Science, Maths & Technology

Biofuels

...humans demonstrate an understanding of the contribution that science can make to informed debate on issues arising from the use of plants and the threats posed to plants and their habitats make sense of information presented in different ways, including textual, numerical, graphical, multimedia and web-based material...Biofuels: 1 What are biofuels? - The use of...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’
History & The Arts

Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’

...Humanities...Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: analyse the pros and cons of the biographical monograph in art history examine the strengths and weaknesses of the biographical monograph in relation to other kinds of art history writing...Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’: 1.1 Biography and art history -...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Moons of our Solar System Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Moons of our Solar System

...resource in the Moon is the dirt. You can use that material to shield human habitats. You can use it to build structures. With very simple chemical processing, you can extract metals from the lunar soil. There's a lot of iron in the soil. That native iron on the Moon has the properties of stainless steel. There's no atmosphere, so the iron won't rust. It'll last forever....
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Language on the move: Migrating literature and Zachary Richard’s Cajun tales
Languages

Language on the move: Migrating literature and Zachary Richard’s Cajun tales

...humans, inevitably recall the canonical fables by Aesop (sixth century B.C.) or Jean de la Fontaine (seventeenth century). Although not immediately related to “The Ant and the Grasshopper,” the character of the cicada in the first tale is a distant echo of that fable. The almost blind and slightly hard-of-hearing cicada whom the companions meet, shrugs them off with...
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Article 15 mins
10 years of The Bottom Line
Money & Business

10 years of The Bottom Line

...resources. Evan fulfils the BBC’s mission to inform as a presenter on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, bringing news, interviews and analysis to more than seven million listeners each day, a really staggering statistic. And of course its influence goes beyond mere numbers. As Tim Luckhurst, professor of journalism at Kent University says, “It is the only news outlet...
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Article 5 mins
Introducing engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing engineering

...resources and fabricate your product. This type of approach is essentially the same as that taken by professional engineers; that is why we would consider shelf assembly to be engineering. However, professional engineers have to be able to handle projects of greater scale and complexity. To do this efficiently and effectively requires a wider range of skills, developed...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs