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Law and change: Scottish legal heroes Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Law and change: Scottish legal heroes

...learn about the law-making process in Scotland, explore how the legal system has been influenced by change and consider how law has been used to respond to developments in society. Scots laws and lawyers have influenced development of laws on a national, regional and global level and you explore examples of this influence. You'll consider how words such as reasonableness,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Interpreting data: Boxplots and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

Interpreting data: Boxplots and tables

...learn about another kind of graphical display, the boxplot. A boxplot is a fairly simple graphic, which displays certain summary statistics of a set of data. Boxplots are particularly useful for assessing quickly the location, dispersion, and symmetry or skewness of a set of data, and for making comparisons of these features in two or more data sets. Boxplots can also be...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Music and its media
History & The Arts

Music and its media

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate knowledge of the main ways in which music is transmitted understand how the means of communicating a particular piece can change over time examine examples of musical media from different historical periods and geographical locations show how the appearance and contents of a musical source...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Religious diversity: rethinking religion
History & The Arts

Religious diversity: rethinking religion

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: recognise the variety and vibrancy of religion in contemporary Britain appreciate the importance of recognising diversity within religious traditions recognise how ‘religious literacy’ contributes to civil society...Religious diversity: rethinking religion: 1 What is religious studies? - Before we...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Reading and note taking – preparation for study
Society, Politics & Law

Reading and note taking – preparation for study

...learn the techniques behind successful note taking and how to apply them to your own notes...Reading and note taking are two essential study skills. How do you read? This free course, Reading and note taking preparation for study, will introduce you to different techniques to help you to alter the way you read according to the type of material you are studying. You will...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Jim Skea - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Jim Skea - Stories of Change

...learning by doing, got the Chinese into the market which brought costs down further. So there’s a kind of interplay between the public and private sectors that’s helped there. RH: And now you have millions of people in developing countries, thanks to cheap solar power and highly effective LEDs, you have people being able to charge their phones, use lighting so their...
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Exploring philosophy: faking nature
History & The Arts

Exploring philosophy: faking nature

...learn. The original bands put the effort in. BAND MEMBER 2 Quite often, we're recreating somebody's improvisations. So Slash would improvise something, off hat, different every night. And then we're try to learn it, basically. So it's really challenging. [CHUCKLES] BAND MEMBER 5 Well, you take it to the point where you inhabit that style so much that if you screw up, you...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
What do we mean by digital health and social care?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What do we mean by digital health and social care?

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: explain what is meant by digital and health technologies evaluate the types of technologies used in health and social care identify the policies and digital innovations local to where you live...What do we mean by digital health and social care?: 1 Defining digital health and social care technology -...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs