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Education & Development

Young children, the outdoors and nature

...working with children or are you a parent or carer? This free course, Young children, the outdoors and nature, looks at the importance of babies and toddlers having opportunities to engage with rich outdoor environments. By completing the activities, you will be introduced to the benefits of outdoor engagement for babies and toddlers as well as a variety of practices and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction
Digital & Computing

Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction

...working draw a systems map, review it, and use it to prompt further questions evaluate your diagramming skills develop, and take responsibility for, your own understanding of complexity appreciate some ethical implications of being a systems practitioner...Managing complexity: a systems approach – introduction: 1 Overview of the unit - [Figure 1] Figure 1 An...
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Level 3: Advanced 75 hrs
Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic
OpenLearn Ireland

Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic

...work of Thomas Leland, Elizabeth Griffiths and Regina Maria Roche are often considered some of the earliest examples from this tradition A. M. Shine’s The Watchers (2022) and Jan Carson’s haunted whodunnit The Raptures (2022) are evidence that the tradition is still very much alive and well in Ireland. Many of Ireland’s most famous Gothic writers over the past 250...
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Article 45 mins
Company law in context
Society, Politics & Law

Company law in context

...work, and how company law has developed, it is useful to start off by looking at the different ways in which a business can be run,and how forms of business organisations other than companies work. This will give us a background against which to place the study of company law and is why we will be concentrating on how sole traders and partnerships run their businesses....
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Language in the real world
Languages

Language in the real world

...works (i.e. ‘linguistics’) is helpful – some might say essential – for different aspects of our everyday lives. It provides an introduction to ideas around what language is and to the field of Applied Linguistics, which is dedicated to exploring and addressing situations where language plays a crucial role...This free course, Language in the real world, explains...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Sustainable chemistry
Science, Maths & Technology

Sustainable chemistry

...work and economic growth (depicted by a bar chart with an arrow trending upwards) 3 – Good health and wellbeing (depicted by a pulse line and heart) 14 – Life below water (depicted by a fish swimming in water) 6 – Clean water and sanitation (depicted by water in a glass) 13 – Climate action (depicted by an eye with the iris and pupil coloured like the surface of...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
The Passing of the New: Bowie and Boulez
History & The Arts

The Passing of the New: Bowie and Boulez

...work which contains no prescribed sound at all, whose best-known book on music is called Silence. He was a close friend of Boulez in the 1950s; Bowie named Silence as one of his favourite books. Cage was convinced that the conventional, the ordinary, the expected, were all enemies of the truly musical. Boulez took from him a commitment to the utterly new; Bowie’s...
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Article 5 mins
Extinctions at World Heritage Sites aren't just environmental disasters
Nature & Environment

Extinctions at World Heritage Sites aren't just environmental disasters

...warns that populations of some fish, lobsters and molluscs have declined dramatically in recent years, leaving local fishermen and traders with less stock to sell. “It's a constant battle” she says. “Unless NGOs, society and government work together, we will not see a major change”. This article was originally published by SciDevNet under a CC-BY licence...
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Article 5 mins