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The oceans
Science, Maths & Technology

The oceans

...become inactive. Nine months have passed at 9 North. What were only recently chimneys teeming with life have turned into cold, sterile mineral monuments. Some eddy deep in the Earth's crust diverted the volcanic energy elsewhere, and an entire micro world was extinguished. In places, volcanoes have erupted to build great submarine mountains. There are thought to be around...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
The moral equality of combatants
History & The Arts

The moral equality of combatants

...students to understand and assess the epistemological argument for the moral equality of combatants and other arguments for and against this idea...This free course introduces and explores the idea of the moral equality of combatants and discusses the question of the basis of liability to killing in war. It invites students to understand and assess the epistemological...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
Talk the talk
Education & Development

Talk the talk

...students have never known a world without digital being part of their life, then shame on us if we think we can sit still, put our head in the sands and deliver a teaching experience for them that not only doesn't map to the world that they live in, doesn't map to the jobs and prosperity we wish for them and their families for the generations ahead. Quite convincing,...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Everyday maths 1 (Northern Ireland)
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 1 (Northern Ireland)

...students passed their Maths GCSE this year at Longfield High School. 395 passed last year. Approximately how many students passed GCSE Maths over the last two years? Four armchairs cost £595. What is the approximate cost of one armchair? [Described image] Figure 9 How much for one armchair? A box contains 18 pencils. A company orders 50 boxes. Approximately how many...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
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Money & Business

Developing business ideas for drone technologies

...students, currently studying with The Open University – http://www.open.ac.uk/ choose/ ou/ open-content 2. Enjoyed this? Find out more about this topic or browse all our free course materials on OpenLearn – http://www.open.edu/ openlearn/ 3. Outside the UK? We have students in over a hundred countries studying online qualifications – http://www.openuniversity.edu/...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Hadrian's Rome
History & The Arts

Hadrian's Rome

...become divine when he dies. The axis of the Pantheon points at the Mausoleum of Augustus, so there’s all this implicit negotiation on the edge of what is acceptable. Eleanor Betts And so how does the Pantheon fit in with the rest of the architectural landscape of the Campus Martius? Mark Wilson Jones What’s important to realise here is that the Pantheon isn’t born...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
History & The Arts

Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts

...becomes evident. It begins with a small child declaring ‘England am I’ (p.70) and the scenes that follow establish a national historical and literary identity: Canterbury pilgrims, Elizabeth I, an 18th-century Restoration comedy, and a Victorian picnic party succeed each other, finishing with the present day. Listen to the following audio, which is a reading of an...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Life in the Palaeozoic
Nature & Environment

Life in the Palaeozoic

...becoming clearer. It seems that some Burgess Shale forms are hard to classify simply because the boundaries between major categories of animal life were still blurred shortly after the Cambrian explosion. In other words, by mid Cambrian time, there still had not been enough time for some groups to have diverged sufficiently from their recent common ancestors to be...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs