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The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present
History & The Arts

The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present

...research suggests that the intriguing Antikythera mechanism (a complex clockwork device from the 2nd century BCE that has baffled archaeologists for over a century) may have originally been used partly as an Olympiad calendar. [Worlds earliest computer] Figure 2 The Antikythera mechanism, dubbed the world’s earliest computer, was found by sponge divers in 1901 at the...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Approaching language, literature and childhood
Education & Development

Approaching language, literature and childhood

...research traditions as negative; for example, followers of Karl Marx view ideology as a form of ‘false consciousness’ or illusory thinking which causes people to have a distorted view of reality. Other researchers view ideology in a more neutral way as referring to different ways of construing the world and how it works; often these beliefs and assumptions are so...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Business models in strategic management
Money & Business

Business models in strategic management

...research. This is the case for firms that collect credit data from their customers: that data is then used by other paying customers to offer loan services to clients. The following animation exemplifies the functioning of the model. Animation 4 Multisided business model Managing this business model means controlling how the two groups of customers receive benefit from...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
An introduction to data and information in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to data and information in health and social care

...research findings relevant to a patient’s condition. The above list shows how daunting information requirements can be. A doctor needs everything from the simple and obvious (the patient’s name and address) to the complex and possibly obscure (the latest research findings on a rare disease)...An introduction to data and information in health and social care: 2.2 Data...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Getting started with Spanish 3
Languages

Getting started with Spanish 3

...research methods and pre-sessional English with IELTS, which will be available for registration in due course. The Open Centre for Languages and Cultures is an international leader in online language learning and intercultural communications, built on our pioneering pedagogy and research. What makes the Open Centre different? The OU is the leader in online learning and...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Creative writing and critical reading
History & The Arts

Creative writing and critical reading

...research and quotations threaded throughout the piece; and her frequent use of interpolation and parenthesis. She also likes to directly address her reader, so that we get the feeling of being in a personal conversation: ‘Say it with me now.’ All of these features help create a very principled voice – a voice that can permit different sides of an argument to have...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Capacity and demand management
Society, Politics & Law

Capacity and demand management

...research, where this is appropriate. Time series analysis takes historical data and looks at the patterns in it with the intention of understanding future demand if the same patterns repeat. The analysis can range from the relatively simple approaches of understanding averages (‘moving averages’), to much more complex multi-variate techniques and probabilistic...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Managing my money for young adults Badge icon
Money & Business

Managing my money for young adults

...research department, where I learned a bit more what was going on. And one of my tasks, in those days, we didn't have the internet, wasn't working in the way it did now, was I had to go on the boards and pin up the financial newspapers so that everybody in the company could read them. That was, well, induction type job going there. Now I'd just come from representing my...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs