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Exploring books for children: words and pictures
History & The Arts

Exploring books for children: words and pictures

...studying this course, you should be able to: understand how images communicate meanings to the readers of children’s books understand the role of cultural knowledge in making sense of images understand how words and pictures can reinforce or contradict one another in a text, with interesting results recognise the work of some famous illustrators for children understand...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Unsolved problems in cosmology
Science, Maths & Technology

Unsolved problems in cosmology

...studying this course, you should be able to: understand the basis of modern cosmology based on the hot big bang summarise the main candidate dark matter particles, and the prospects for directly detecting them compare models to explain the late-time acceleration of the Universe’s expansion, i.e. dark energy and the cosmological constant discuss observational prospects...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
What is a metal?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is a metal?

...studying this course, you should be able to: understand metallic bonding and how it is related to metallic characteristics understand the role of metals in everyday life...What is a metal?: 1 What is a metal? - To begin, have a look at the following questions. Write down the names of as many metals as you can think of. Some you may have thought of are iron, silver, gold,...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
An introduction to computers and computer systems
Digital & Computing

An introduction to computers and computer systems

...study this course you will find out how computers and the components within them carry out their allotted tasks, and you will also develop an understanding of how improvements in computer technologies have allowed computers to become smaller, more powerful and cheaper...Session 1: Computers and processors: 6 Summary of Session 1 - In this session you have had a brief...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
What is poetry?
History & The Arts

What is poetry?

...study in Arts and Humanities...What is poetry?: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the common techniques underlying free verse and traditional forms of poetry identify personal experiences that can be used when writing poems understand the basic terminology and practical elements of poetry...What is poetry?: 1 What is...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Learning about sex, a shilling a time: Aristotle's Masterpiece
History & The Arts

Learning about sex, a shilling a time: Aristotle's Masterpiece

...studying Aristotle, because, as he explained, the name Aristotle, “would have meant to my mother, as secretly to Victorian women, his book on child-bearing: unmentionable”. But Rowse knew that the book was tucked away in her chest of drawers back in his home in rural Cornwall. The work remained an iconic symbol of sexual knowledge for generations. In Evelyn Waugh’s...
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Article 10 mins
How I wrote Frankenstein
History & The Arts

How I wrote Frankenstein

...study, in the way of reading, or improving my ideas in communication with his far more cultivated mind, was all of literary employment that engaged my attention. In the summer of 1816, we visited Switzerland, and became the neighbours of Lord Byron. At first we spent our pleasant hours on the lake, or wandering on its shores; and Lord Byron, who was writing the third...
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Article 5 mins
Sperm counts
Nature & Environment

Sperm counts

...studying biology with The Open University In fact, it has been suggested that should the couple mistime things, they are best off not bothering to withdraw at all, but please don't try that one at home. How much sperm does a man make? First, let's talk numbers. The quantity of sperm cells that men produce varies widely. In general, it is said that men may produce between...
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Article 15 mins