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Microbes – friend or foe?
Nature & Environment

Microbes – friend or foe?

...health sciences and environmental sciences understand the contribution that microbiology can make to informed debate on medical and environmental issues make sense of information presented in different ways, including textual, numerical and graphical material...Microbes – friend or foe?: 1 Disease-causing bacteria - Surprisingly, many bacteria that cause disease are...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Economics explains discrimination in the labour market
Society, Politics & Law

Economics explains discrimination in the labour market

...health care or how they are treated in the labour market. We will focus on the last of these considerations and, in particular, why the labour market status of some groups of workers is significantly worse than that for the population at large. This does not mean that discrimination in the labour market is a more relevant consideration than other forms of discrimination,...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Making creativity and innovation happen
Money & Business

Making creativity and innovation happen

...public sector body or perhaps even charity. However, clearly in those contexts the focus might, for example, be less on customers and more on service users, and – equally – less on profit and more on outcome. Now watch the following short clip in which Markides (Irish Management Institute, 2013) discusses the concept of strategic innovation in greater detail. [MUSIC...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Art and life in ancient Egypt
History & The Arts

Art and life in ancient Egypt

...publication Description de l’Egypte, initially in ten volumes accompanied by 900 engraved illustrations, between 1809 and 1828. These brought a comprehensive and accurate visual survey of Egyptian temples, tombs and their sculpted and painted decorations before the European public for the first time. A second key development was the Egyptian hieroglyphic script being...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
History & The Arts

John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

...publication Anita Pacheco and David Johnson (eds) (2012) The Renaissance and Long Eighteenth Century, published by The Open University and Bloomsbury Academic...John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the treatment of the themes of love and death in Acts 1 and 2 of John Webster’s play The...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Listening for form in popular music
History & The Arts

Listening for form in popular music

...Public Domain. The previous section introduced two specialist terms for describing form, namely ‘verse’ and ‘chorus’. In the next activities, you will try to identify verses and choruses yourself in a 1977 performance of ‘Midnight Special’ by the guitarist and singer Brownie McGhee and the harmonica player and singer Sonny Terry. The duo performs a folksong...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Practising science: Reading the rocks and ecology
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising science: Reading the rocks and ecology

...public to raise awareness of scientific discovery. The way in which science is communicated to interested parties is especially important because scientific knowledge is useless if no one else can understand it. This free course, Practising science: reading the rocks and ecology, introduces some of the background needed for students taking part in the earth science and...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?
Education & Development

Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?

...Health, Behavior and Development at the Seattle Children’s Research Institute. “If your child has 12 hours awake and two of those are spent eating, how will you allocate the rest of the time?” The problem is that tablets are extremely appealing to children and adults alike. Thanks to their design, versatility and intuitive interfaces, tablets are a perfect way for...
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