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Why teach art?
Education & Development

Why teach art?

...children here who can't even speak English properly – they should be doing more of that instead of leisure subjects like art.’ Both of these are, as you may appreciate, instrumental – or means–end – statements. In their various ways they place art, and by implication other humanities subjects, unfavourably on a spectrum according to their perceived...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Project management: the start of the project journey
Money & Business

Project management: the start of the project journey

...research and software design, the normal day-to-day work is carrying out projects. What then is a project? Projects vary so much that they are difficult to define concisely, but the general view is that projects are concerned with bringing about change in an organised manner. From an academic perspective, a project is: a temporary organisation to which resources are...
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Level 3: Advanced 35 hrs
Recording music and sound
History & The Arts

Recording music and sound

...research at Columbia Records in America, demonstrated a 12-inch (30 cm) non-breakable microgroove vinyl disc capable of playing 23 minutes each side. Columbia called it the LP (for long-playing) disc. It revolved at 33⅓ rpm with up to 300 tracks to the inch (120 per cm). The rival company RCA-Victor seemed not to be impressed with the LP. They responded with a 7-inch...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Addysg gynhwysol: deall yr hyn a olygwn (Cymru)
Education & Development

Addysg gynhwysol: deall yr hyn a olygwn (Cymru)

...children learn in the same school’, quoted in the OpenLearn course Inclusive education: knowing what we mean. Ar gael yn: https://www.open.edu/ openlearn/ education/ educational-technology-and-practice/ educational-practice/ inclusive-education-knowing-what-we-mean/ content-section-0 (cyrchwyd 2 Hydref 2018). Booth, T. (1996) ‘A perspective on inclusion from...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Introduction to ecosystems
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to ecosystems

...centre-- all of that is going to be mapped as being unimproved acid grassland. SPEAKER 1 It helps us to identify areas where you are likely to find certain rare species. So we can decide on areas that need protecting. Where you have areas of development it helps you to decide on whether a developer should go ahead, what kind of development should go ahead, and any...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Welsh history and its sources
History & The Arts

Welsh history and its sources

...centre of the world's copper industry. (Coast, Series 3, Programme 4, 2007). Video 4 (duration 6:59)...Welsh history and its sources: 4.3 The celebrated Cyfarthfa band - In the middle of the nineteenth century, Merthyr Tydfil was the world's greatest supplier of iron and the largest town in Wales. It was dominated by Cyfarthfa Castle, the huge and ostentatious home of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 25 hrs
Histology, microscopy, anatomy and disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Histology, microscopy, anatomy and disease

...research, to identify the causes and possible treatments for disease. This type of research may take place in a hospital laboratory but it is more often carried out in universities, research institutes and pharmaceutical companies. The conventional view of a histopathologist is someone looking down a microscope. Most histological work does indeed involve the preparation...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Information technology: A new era?
Society, Politics & Law

Information technology: A new era?

...centres on distinguishing whether recent increases in productivity are just cyclical, and hence temporary, or whether they are the beginning of a new and long-lasting trend. If the increase in productivity in the USA in the late 1990s was cyclical, this means that it occurred simply because the US economy as a whole was undergoing a boom in the latter half of the 1990s,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs