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Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction
History & The Arts

Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction

...works, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926), and explore the evolution of British detective fiction in relation to Christie’s background, literary modernism and the development of middlebrow fiction...When we think of twentieth century literature as a popular cultural form, Agatha Christie (1890–1976), Britain’s pre-eminent crime fiction author after the First World...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Electromagnetism: testing Coulomb’s law
Science, Maths & Technology

Electromagnetism: testing Coulomb’s law

...Working with displacement vectors Figure 3 shows two vectors bold r sub one and bold r sub two whose arrows start at the origin O and end at charges q sub one and q sub two . These vectors are called the position vectors of q sub one and q sub two . A position vector has dimensions of length, where the SI unit of length is the metre (m). [Described image] Figure 3 The...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?
Society, Politics & Law

From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?

...work through the course at your own pace, so if you have more time one week there is no problem with pushing on to complete another week’s study. You will get plenty of opportunities as the course progresses to reflect on the arguments and examples that are presented and there are weekly quizzes to help bring your learning together. After completing this course, you...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Understanding children: babies being heard
Education & Development

Understanding children: babies being heard

...work towards a formal qualification in the future; or you may have been encouraged to look at the course by friends, family or an employer. You may know quite a lot about babies and children through caring for your own or other people's. In this course you will be finding out about very young babies' abilities, and the ways in which they interact with the world around...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Understanding mental capacity Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding mental capacity

...work is underway. So maybe the most important feature of Irish capacity legislation in the Republic of Ireland is how old it is, and how unfit for purpose it is and has been. For nearly a century, it's been outdated. But progress is being made. We're at a point of very great transition, when a new piece of legislation, the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act has been...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Tim Lenton - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tim Lenton - Stories of Change

...work won the Times Higher Education Award for Research Project of the Year 2008. He has also received a Philip Leverhulme Prize 2004, a European Geosciences Union Outstanding Young Scientist Award 2006, the British Association Charles Lyell Award Lecture 2006, and the Geological Society of London William Smith Fund 2008. He is a Fellow of the Linnean Society, the...
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Forensic psychology

...works, and discover how the limitations of the human brain can lead to major miscarriages of justice. Despite advances in forensic science, eyewitness testimony remains a critical component of criminal investigations. Psychological research has revealed the dangers of relying on evidence gained from an eyewitness and also how careful the police need to be when questioning...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view
Society, Politics & Law

Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view

...work through seven sections in which you will engage with some of the major aspects of economic policy: What types of problems are governments concerned with? Which policy instruments do they have at their disposal? How do they make decisions about the effectiveness of alternative courses of action? One of the most challenging aspects of economic policy and decision...
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Level 2: Intermediate 28 hrs