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Everyday English 2
Languages

Everyday English 2

...research on the issue, which was helpful. During the discussion, the chair asked if anyone had any questions; she made sure everyone understood what was going on. The chair invited suggestions from all the participants, including from someone who had been quiet. She didn’t dominate the discussion, but kept it moving and made sure everyone participated. The chair made it...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
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Languages

Get ready for beginners’ French

...research into aspects of the French-speaking world that interest you most. If you live in a nearby country, perhaps there is an area of France that you visit frequently. See what you can investigate further: find out about the local industry, or whether any significant historical events occurred there. Is there a chance you might travel to a French-speaking country (other...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Brighton Pavilion
History & The Arts

Brighton Pavilion

...research. In fact I followed this programme in order to write what follows, and I hope you will enjoy following me step by step through what I discovered – and deciding whether you agree with my judgements. This unit is an adapted extract from the Open University course From Enlightenment to Romanticism c.1780-1830 (A207)...Brighton Pavilion: 2 A prince at the seaside -...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Art in Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

Art in Renaissance Venice

...research the Renaissance was a conviction of its status as ‘a civilisation which is the mother of our own’. 2 Contemporary historians, by contrast, are inclined to explore differences between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and our own times. 3 Not only is the map of the societies and cultures that produced Renaissance art substantially redrawn, but our sense of...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century
Science, Maths & Technology

Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century

...researchers built mechanical computers by using gears, levers and cogs. And in recent days researchers are building computers by using molecular, biological, hydraulic and quantum technologies. So in my view this old central processing unit can be modelled the same way as I modelled before. But the winning piece of all this central processing unit and in general-purpose...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Studying mammals: Life in the trees
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Life in the trees

...researchers claim that urine washing has a cooling function; others suggest that urine has a disinfectant role. Further investigation would be needed before the function of urine washing in lorises could be stated with such certainty. Activity 6d (d) Some experts have argued that stereoscopic vision of the sort possessed by bush-babies is essential for estimating...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Understanding systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...research (or operations research as it is known in North America) for clearly defined strategic military purposes during the Second World War. Since then, systems approaches have developed to address many other different contexts ranging from multiple variables associated with industrial processes to global climate change, and multiple perspectives associated with family...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
Modern slavery
Society, Politics & Law

Modern slavery

...research report on child trafficking in Scotland. Activity 7 Child trafficking in Scotland – a case study Part 1 Read the following parts of the report, Scotland: a Safe Place for Child Traffickers? (2011) by Scotland’s Commissioner for Children and Young People and the Centre for Rural Childhood. Executive Summary (paras 1–1.2, 2.4–2.6.2, 3.1–3.3.1 and 3.6–5)...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs