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Geometry
Science, Maths & Technology

Geometry

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand geometrical terminology for angles, triangles, quadrilaterals and circles measure angles using a protractor use geometrical results to determine unknown angles recognise line and rotational symmetries find the areas of triangles, quadrilaterals and circles and shapes based on
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Understanding different research perspectives
Money & Business

Understanding different research perspectives

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the different perspectives from which a problem can be investigated consider the researcher’s involvement in the research process as insider and/or outsider reflect on the importance of ethical processes in research understand the development of a research strategy and how this is...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Retail marketing
Money & Business

Retail marketing

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: define retailing understand what marketing means to business executives and academics understand the ways that retailers use marketing tools and techniques to interact with their customers...Retail marketing: 1 A definition of retailing - Figure 1 As a consumer we all have our own experiences of buying...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Social media and networks in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social media and networks in health and social care

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: identify the advantages and disadvantages of using the internet in health and social care evaluate your own use of online social networks and the implications of these for workers in health and social care evaluate the impact of the internet on the experiences of users of health and social care...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Water for life
Nature & Environment

Water for life

...learn the basic chemistry of how these components work together, starting with a chemical compound we are all very familiar with water...Atoms, elements and molecules are the building blocks of everything that makes up our world, including ourselves. In this free course, Water for life, you will learn the basic chemistry of how these components work together, starting...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Fast Reactors and Thorium
Science, Maths & Technology

Fast Reactors and Thorium

...learn more about moderators in Week 2, where the physics of reactors is covered in more detail. Thermal reactors benefit from the enhanced chance of nuclear fission when thermal neutrons come close to and interact with a U-235 or Pu-239 nucleus. The slowing of the fast neutrons is not essential, however, for a controllable nuclear reactor, and such thinking lies at the...
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Tolstoy and the search for the meaning of life
History & The Arts

Tolstoy and the search for the meaning of life

...learned and the wise denied the meaning of life, but the enormous masses of men, all humanity, recognized this meaning in an irrational knowledge. This irrational knowledge was faith, the same that I could not help but reject. That was God as one and three, the creation in six days, devils and angels, and all which I could not accept so long as I had not lost my senses....
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Kimberly Nicholas - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Kimberly Nicholas - Stories of Change

...learned that actually what we think of as taste is almost entirely smell. We can only distinguish five tastes, sweet, sour, salty, bitter etc. Umami, which is savoury. But our noses are exquisitely sensitive so we can distinguish millions and millions of smells and most of what we’re experiencing when we drink a wine is actually our brain perceiving those smells that...
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