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Understanding water quality
Nature & Environment

Understanding water quality

...Communities situated on coasts commonly discharge untreated sewage into the sea. This is an acceptable method of disposal if the outfall is far enough offshore, if currents do not bring the sewage back to land, and if the discharge is not too great. In these circumstances, the organic matter can be broken down by bacteria in the sea. Sea discharges are not always...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Introducing ageing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing ageing

...community, such as committee membership, and producing theatrical shows. Reading 2 in Activity 8 shows that, while being more frail and dependent usually reduces people’s scope to do things that they find fulfilling and to contribute to society, it does not do so absolutely. Clearly the people in Katz et al.’s 2013 study are living very different lives from Monty...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
Gweithio hybrid: datblygu sefydliadol
Money & Business

Gweithio hybrid: datblygu sefydliadol

...community.’ International Organization for Standardization (2019) Mae gan yr ISO saith egwyddor sy’n nodweddu sefydliad sy’n canolbwyntio ar bobl. Amlinellir y rhain isod. Tabl 4 Manteisio ar wahaniaethau unigol fel cryfder sefydliadol Mae’r sefydliad yn cydnabod gwahaniaethau unigol fel cryfder ac yn ystyried hyn ym mhob maes o’r busnes. Mae’r sefydliad yn...
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Level 1: Introductory 21 hrs
Managing my money for young adults Badge icon
Money & Business

Managing my money for young adults

...communicate. And I ended up after a couple of years thinking I'm on the wrong side. And I switched and do what I do now. But in my first couple of weeks, I was the youngest person they had ever employed as an executive by six years. I was 23, and everybody else who'd ever done that job was 29. But I had to spend a few weeks in the research department, where I learned a...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Gweithio hybrid: sgiliau ar gyfer arwain
Money & Business

Gweithio hybrid: sgiliau ar gyfer arwain

...communicate’ a ‘kindness’. Yn ôl Sarah, bydd ymddwyn fel hyn yn galluogi eich tîm i gyflawni canlyniadau STAR: satisfaction, teamwork, accomplishment a retention. Dadleua McVanel y bydd yr ymddygiadau hyn yn eich paratoi chi i oroesi mewn byd hybrid a goroesi argyfwng, yn ogystal â hynny bydd yn eich galluogi chi a’ch tîm i ffynnu a pharhau i ffynnu y tu hwnt...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Teaching the First World War
Education & Development

Teaching the First World War

...communities in different countries and in understanding the different experiences of diverse soldiers. Because the major combatants were also global empires, non-European troops from Asia and Africa served in all theatres of war. In total, some 65 million soldiers were mobilised in the First World War. More than six million of them came from outside Europe. (Fogarty and...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Discovering chemistry

...community . The courses also provide another way of helping you to progress from informal to formal learning. To complete a course you need to be able to find about 24 hours of study time, over a period of about eight weeks. However, it is possible to study them at any time, and at a pace to suit you. Badged courses are all available on The Open University’s OpenLearn...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Approaching plays
History & The Arts

Approaching plays

...communal fighting spirit. Click to view annotated excerpt as pdf. Discussion You may have chosen different examples, but these are some of the rhetorical devices that are used: repetition (‘Once more … once more’, ‘On, on’) apostrophe or direct address (‘dear friends’) imperatives or commands (‘imitate’, ‘Stiffen’, ‘conjure up’, ‘Disguise’,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs