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Water for life
Nature & Environment

Water for life

...interact with the water cycle can have devastating consequences for all forms of life. These range from the very large scale - for example, the effects of the movement of large volumes of water in a tsunami - to the molecular scale and the ability of water to dissolve solids, such as agricultural fertilisers (Figure 1). [Figure 1] Figure 1 (a) A tsunami wave; (b) a bag of...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Getting started on ancient Greek
History & The Arts

Getting started on ancient Greek

...interacted, socially as well as commercially. It would, we can assume, have been crowded and noisy...Session 4: Words: 3 Prefixes - Greek words can also appear at the start of English words, as prefixes. You have already encountered bio- from βίος (‘life’). Here are three more examples, each of which can still be used to produce new words: poly- (πολύ, much,...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Attention
Society, Politics & Law

Attention

...Social Sciences...Attention: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand different cognitive psychological aproaches used to examine such forms of attention as attention to regions of space, attention to objects and attention for action summarise the different cognitive psychological approaches under a fairly abstract definition of...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
The frozen planet
Nature & Environment

The frozen planet

...interactions (physical, biological, chemical and geological) which shape the polar environment at different temporal and spatial scales express concepts in an objective and factually correct way make sense of information presented in different ways, including textual, numerical or graphical material...The frozen planet: 1 Views of the frozen planet - The Ancient Greeks...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs
An introduction to minerals and rocks under the microscope
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to minerals and rocks under the microscope

...interactive overview of the geological makeup of the landscape of the British Isles, take a look at our Geology Toolkit. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 2 study in Science...An introduction to minerals and rocks under the microscope: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the facts, concepts, principles,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
What is poetry?
History & The Arts

What is poetry?

...socialism and it’s got a certain kind of a voice. If I tried to do that in a story, it would have had to bustle more and be up and about and I’d have had to really create the man and the character and perhaps all the other men who have died in it, and I wouldn’t want to do that. So the great thing about poems is that you can say a lot in a very short space of time...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introduction to music theory 1: form
History & The Arts

Introduction to music theory 1: form

...interactions including ensemble performance and dancing. You looked at a number of examples of these terms, including in Western popular song, Congolese rumba, Hindustani classical vocal music, and powwow singing. You also learned how to use alphabetical designations to indicate song form, exploring how to use upper- and lower-case letters (AABA, aabcbc) and prime marks...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Language on the move: Migrating literature and Zachary Richard’s Cajun tales
Languages

Language on the move: Migrating literature and Zachary Richard’s Cajun tales

...social problems. This transnational humanism is also present in his Cajun tales and was most recently officially acknowledged by the Cercle Senghor Richelieu which awarded Richard the annual Prix du Cercle Senghor Richelieu de Paris in March 2014 (“Le Prix du Cercle”). The tales express the necessity of turning towards the wider francophone world for the preservation...
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Article 15 mins