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Understanding different research perspectives
Money & Business

Understanding different research perspectives

...world out there that can be objectively known; for example, profit can be viewed as an objective measure of business performance. Alternatively the researcher may believe that concepts such as ‘culture’, ‘motivation’, ‘leadership’, ‘performance’ result from human categorisation of the world and that their ‘meaning’ can change depending on the...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Introduction to music theory 1: form
History & The Arts

Introduction to music theory 1: form

...world traditions. You will explore a number of methods of representing form, including alphabetical designations (e.g., AABA), genre-specific terminology (e.g., terms such as ‘verse’ and ‘chorus’) and visual representations (e.g., diagrams, tables). This course is adapted from the Open University course A234 Understanding Music. It is first in a planned sequence...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Freeing people caught between life and death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freeing people caught between life and death

...world outside is oblivious to what’s going on inside. “Inside, there’s plenty of time to think. At first, this feels like a game, even one that is strangely amusing. Then, reality sets in. You’re trapped. You see and hear your family lamenting your fate. Over the years, the carers forget to turn on the TV. You’re too cold. Then you’re too hot. You’re always...
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Article 15 mins
Asset allocation in investment
Money & Business

Asset allocation in investment

...World (ROW)), 10% UK gilts and 70% Treasury bills. An aggressive investor using this set of model portfolios would invest 95% of his or her portfolio in equities...Asset allocation in investment: 1.2 Investor objectives - It is usual for investment advisers to get potential clients to fill in a questionnaire to try to ascertain the investor’s risk and return...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Working mathematically
Science, Maths & Technology

Working mathematically

...world around us. Other answers are more global, such as: within people experience life, anywhere and everywhere. Reasons given for the importance of mathematics (prompt 2) often portray a more personal view of what mathematics is ‘about’. They include: its beauty and the support it gives to other disciplines it gives a different perspective on things it is...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution
History & The Arts

Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution

...world of popular music is highly structured in terms of gender. Traditionally, women have been positioned as consumers and fans, and in supportive roles (wife, mother, girlfriend) rather than as active producers of music: musicians. When they have been on stage, on TV, on record, it has nearly always been as singers. They have sometimes written their own lyrics, rarely...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Creativity, community and ICT
Education & Development

Creativity, community and ICT

...world's most celebrated works about ‘creation’ (the poem Paradise Lost, and the oratorio The Creation), composed in times when new technologies, each in different ways, were causing an absolute sensation. Galileo was imprisoned for his ‘treasonable’ proposition that the heavens were variable, although it is unlikely this was an issue he was considering when he...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
John Napier
Science, Maths & Technology

John Napier

...world for his Protestant religious treatise A plaine discovery of the whole Revelation of Saint John (1594), a well-received work which was translated into several foreign languages. Napier’s interest in mathematics, and in computational methods in particular, seems to have started in his early twenties (in the 1570s), and continued mostly unknown to the wider world...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs