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An introduction to energy resources
Nature & Environment

An introduction to energy resources

...work, power and efficiency, then briefly investigates the different types of energy available, their sources and renewability. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 2 study in Science...Energy resources: An introduction to energy resources: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the difference between energy and power,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Assessment in secondary music
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary music

...work, including making decisions about what is assessed and how it is assessed. Most of all, however, the course will have at its heart considerations of how music assessment can be musical. The course identifies and explores some of the key issues and debates around assessment and music in secondary schools. Through coming to understand these issues and debates you will...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Conducting qualitative interviews: an introduction
Education & Development

Conducting qualitative interviews: an introduction

...worked through in order, but they do usually have a topic guide. This is a list of areas that you want to find out about that helps you structure the interview. To begin creating a topic guide, make a list of the areas you’d like to cover. When your list is complete, think about what order would mimic a natural conversation and create the best flow. You may find it...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour
History & The Arts

Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour

...social advancement and entertainment, on what was known as the Grand Tour. A central objective was to gain exposure to the cultures of classical antiquity, particularly in Italy. In this free course, you’ll explore some of the different kinds of cultural encounters that fed into the Grand Tour, and will explore the role that they play in our study of Art History,...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Saving capitalists from themselves?
Society, Politics & Law

Saving capitalists from themselves?

...working" (a pun on the Conservative election poster "Labour isn't working") at the G20 Meltdown protest in London on 1 April 2009] For the first time, one per cent of the world population controls more than half of the world's wealth, according to a Credit Suisse study released in December. And it is mark of our times that Credit Suisse, which has contributed to the...
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Article 5 mins
Toyota diffusion (TD)
Science, Maths & Technology

Toyota diffusion (TD)

...working tool steel (Fe–5Cr) D2 ASP30, produced by hot isostatic compaction. The coating grows by reaction of the carbide-former and carbon atoms diffusing from the matrix. The hardness of the vanadium carbide layer is in excess of 3000 VPN, which is higher than most other similar processes. Very hard carbide layers provide excellent wear resistance to steel and, in some...
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Article 10 mins
Bird ringing in Bog Meadows
OpenLearn Ireland

Bird ringing in Bog Meadows

...works in Bog Meadows, a city nature reserve a few metres from the M1 motorway in Northern Ireland...Bird ringing is a world-wide method of finding out where birds migrate and how population levels change. See here how it is done on the Bog Meadows, a city nature reserve a few metres from the M1 motorway near Belfast. Video Transcript AIDAN CREAN: There’s many many...
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Video 5 mins
Difference and challenge in teams
Money & Business

Difference and challenge in teams

...social information’ held by others in the colony. These bees out-compete the directions given by other bees dancing less vigorously. Some more recent studies of bee behaviour suggest that ‘private information’ held by individual bees (e.g. the memory of where they found nectar on a previous foraging trip) is also at play. Guidance given by different team members is...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs