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Writing what you know
History & The Arts

Writing what you know

...studying this course, you should be able to: articulate the notion of ‘write what you know’ write ‘blind’ descriptions of known objects and note new observations have an enhanced ability to list sensory perceptions write short texts about a personal memory of either a place or a character...Writing what you know: 1.1 Using life experiences in your fiction -...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Adaptation and Assimilation: The Irish Catholic Experience in America
OpenLearn Ireland

Adaptation and Assimilation: The Irish Catholic Experience in America

...skills in English to meet the demands of a modernizing American economy. By 1900 most emigrants who embarked from Queenstown, then the busiest emigration port in Ireland, could read and write (Meaney, O’Dowd and Whelan, 2013, p.89.) Given their preference for life in the big cities, they were also adept at using the American political system to their advantage,...
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Article 5 mins
Financial statement analysis and interpretation
Money & Business

Financial statement analysis and interpretation

...skill to carry out an in-depth analysis of a set of financial statements and to interpret and outline your findings and recommendations. It is important to note that this short course does not expand on investor ratios. Furthermore, other techniques of financial analysis (such as horizontal analysis, vertical analysis, analysis of historical data or segmental analyses) do...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Eutrophication
Nature & Environment

Eutrophication

...study in Environment & Development...Eutrophication: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: describe the principal differences between a eutrophic and an oligotrophic ecosystem explain the mechanisms by which species diversity is reduced as a result of eutrophication (Questions 2.1 and 2.2) contrast the anthropogenic sources that supply...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Advanced German: Fragen der Identität
Languages

Advanced German: Fragen der Identität

...studies 3....Advanced German: Fragen der Identität: Einleitung - In diesem kurzen Kurs geht es um Identität und um die Frage, welchen Einfluss unser Umfeld auf uns hat. Wie wird unsere Identität durch unsere Herkunft und unseren Lebensraum geprägt? Was verstehen wir unter Heimat? Und wie ist es mit Personen, die sich durch Migration eine zweite/dritte/vierte Heimat in...
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Level 3: Advanced 13 hrs
Data and processes in computing
Digital & Computing

Data and processes in computing

...studying this course. You can always come back and reread material here if you find later that you need a more thorough understanding of some point. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 2 study in Computing & IT...Data and processes in computing: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand ways in which data may be stored...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Particle physics
Science, Maths & Technology

Particle physics

...studying this course, you should be able to: recognise and name the six flavours of lepton and the six flavours of quark. understand that all leptons and quarks have corresponding antiparticles appreciate that quarks and antiquarks combine to form baryons, antibaryons and mesons. write balanced strong interactions, understanding the role of gluons write balanced weak...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
The gut microbiome: balancing the body
Science, Maths & Technology

The gut microbiome: balancing the body

...studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate and understand what the gut microbiome is and outline how it functions within the human body describe some of the ways the gut microbiome can be altered by factors including genetics and age, as well as lifestyle factors, such as diet and exercise explain the importance of the gut microbiome for human health...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs