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You and your world: Introducing the social sciences
Society, Politics & Law

You and your world: Introducing the social sciences

...work. Video 1 provides some quick snapshots of some of the varied topics, issues and social situations that the social sciences explore. It’s intention is to stimulate your curiosity. [Music playing] [Text on screen]: The social world [Text on screen]: How is it interconnected? Cargo bike is going to lead to Langside. [Music playing] [Text on screen]: Where is...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
IT: device to device communication
Science, Maths & Technology

IT: device to device communication

...work with numbers expressed in scientific notation, and use the Windows calculator to perform calculations on these numbers...IT: device to device communication: 1.1 Getting an overview - This section starts with an article from a technical journal – the sort that is read by academics and professionals working in a related technical field. It sets the scene for some of...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
An introduction to web applications architecture
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to web applications architecture

...work by Shaw and Garlan: Software architecture encompasses the set of significant decisions about the organization of a software system including the selection of the structural elements and their interfaces by which the system is composed; behaviour as specified in collaboration among those elements; composition of these structural and behavioural elements into larger...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Business models in strategic management
Money & Business

Business models in strategic management

...working as intermediaries. In this business model, value is created through the combined activities of the restaurant and the rider who relate to the client by the app platform. The clients benefit from the standardised interaction with the restaurant and so does the restaurant, which receives an order without having to deal with clients directly. [A deliveroo delivery...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
An introduction to data and information in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to data and information in health and social care

...work with health data to produce information, and how exactly this impacts patient care...Have you ever wondered about how information and technology have impacted healthcare? What influence does all this have on how a day-to-day clinical role is carried out? This free course, An introduction to data and information in health and social care, will help you to understand...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Seeing the light
Science, Maths & Technology

Seeing the light

...work. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 1 study in Science...Seeing the light: Learning outcomes - After studying this course you should be able to: demonstrate knowledge and understanding of some of the basic facts about language, concepts and principles relating to the principles of design of a home understand how to extract information from sources such...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
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