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Engineering: environmental fluids
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: environmental fluids

...technology is under development in Norway as a possible solution to the similar problem of fjord crossings needed for the coastal highway project. [Described image] Figure 21 An artist’s impression of a proposed floating tunnel for Norway A floating tunnel may be held up by its own buoyancy and anchored to the sea bed, or it may have negative buoyancy (i.e. a tendency...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Intermediate French: Understanding spoken French
Languages

Intermediate French: Understanding spoken French

...education enseigner (verb) = to teach enseigné (adjective) = taught Using a dictionary and the transcript, can you find other possible word groups for vocabulary learning based on words in the video clip ? Answer Here are some possible word groups that you might have thought of: le directeur/la directrice (noun) = director; la direction (noun) = management; diriger...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Animals at the extremes: polar biology
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: polar biology

...technological and cultural than physiological: Inuit (Figure 22) are shorter and stockier than Canadians of European ancestry, but comparisons of the distribution and abundance of their adipose tissue revealed that the native people have less, rather than more, superficial fat. [Figure 22] Caroline Pond, Open University Figure 22 Inuit in Arviat, Nunavut (formerly known...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Napoleonic paintings
History & The Arts

Napoleonic paintings

...education of her children seriously but she took up art seriously too and she could never quite reconcile the constraints of art and the constraints of domesticity. She shows that women can find a kind of fulfilment that is quite apart from the fulfilment that a domestic life and the love of a man can procure but what is perhaps to a feminist, disappointing, what is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Understanding and managing risk
Money & Business

Understanding and managing risk

...educational challenge for executive and non-executive directors who don’t necessarily come from a financial background. How are companies dealing with this? Paul Outridge: Well, certainly from our side, and we do have formal training courses for directors when they’re appointed. They now actually have a series of lectures and informal discussions, so they are actually...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Histology, microscopy, anatomy and disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Histology, microscopy, anatomy and disease

...technology for teaching science. You will have a chance to experience one such approach during the course, by using a virtual microscope to examine a number of biomedical samples, just as scientists and medical professionals would explore such samples in a lab. Before you start, The Open University would really appreciate a few minutes of your time to tell us about...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Everyday maths 1 (Northern Ireland)
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 1 (Northern Ireland)

...educational well-being of the 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 48 hours of study time. 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 website and do...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
Hadrian's Rome
History & The Arts

Hadrian's Rome

...educated freedmen, ordering them to publish them under their own names; for Phlegon’s books too are said to have been in fact by Hadrian.Footnote 59 He wrote catacannae, some very obscure books in imitation of Antimachus.Footnote 60 To the poet Florus,Footnote 61 who wrote to him: I do not want to be Caesar, To walk about among the Britons, To ensure the Scythian...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs