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Life on the wall: Vindolanda
History & The Arts

Life on the wall: Vindolanda

...work in progress to meet most of the bills, and gradually the Trust was able to employ staff, create its own Museum and offer its visitors decent facilities. When the Trust started its work in 1970 and appointed me to the post of Director of Excavations, I estimated that it might take 25 years to complete the examination of the site. Now, 36 years later, I know that it...
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Article 10 mins
Inheritance of characters
Science, Maths & Technology

Inheritance of characters

...work, the effect that our genetic make-up has on health, and how genetic material is passed on from generation to generation...Genes are units of inheritance that contribute to a person's behaviour and health. In this free course, Inheritance of characters, you will learn what genes, DNA and chromosomes are and how they combine to make the human genome. You will also...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
10 years of The Bottom Line
Money & Business

10 years of The Bottom Line

...worked for a number of years as an economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and at the London Business School before joining the BBC in 1993 as an economics correspondent for radio and television. In 1997, he became Economist Editor on BBC2’s Newsnight programme, and four years after that he was appointed BBC Economics Editor where he was a great success. He won...
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Approaching prose fiction
History & The Arts

Approaching prose fiction

...work, draw general conclusions and use textual evidence to argue a case understand and use academic conventions: referencing and bibliography...Approaching prose fiction: 1 Why do we read prose fiction? - Prose fiction, whether in the form of the novel or the short story, is unarguably the most popular and widely consumed literary genre. One only has to see the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Studying mammals: Return to the water
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Return to the water

...work through the course. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 1 study in Environment & Development...Studying mammals: Return to the water: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: contrast the physical properties of air and water and describe implications of such differences for aquatic mammals give examples of the adaptations...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Intermediate German: Understanding spoken German
Languages

Intermediate German: Understanding spoken German

...working in Germany, by hearing them speak and watching video clips in which they talk about themselves and their lives. Hearing and watching people describe what they do and who they are can offer you an enjoyable and interesting insight into a way of life in a different culture. You will find that the more you watch and listen, the more you understand. Exposure to spoken...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...working through a calculation by hand this is shown by crossing through the numbers that cancel each other out, like this: four times 00 divided by one postfix times 000 postfix times zero times 00 Conventionally, fractions are written in their simplest form. In this case, you can simplify further because both top and bottom are divisible by 4 so this fraction can also be...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
The ethics and politics of the migration and refugee crisis
Society, Politics & Law

The ethics and politics of the migration and refugee crisis

...worked on the ethics and politics of the refugee crisis. We ran an exhibition with the Migration Museum, a theatre project with ActReal and recorded some of the activities with illustrations by Laura Sorvala. The aim of the exhibition was to represent the current migration crisis without being voyeuristic, sensationalising the experience or using it to make fairly easy...
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