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Discovering music through listening
History & The Arts

Discovering music through listening

...work. The famous short-short-short-long rhythm can also be referred to as a motif as it can be traced throughout the whole symphony and helps to create its structure. Here’s another extract from the third movement of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony – can you hear the rhythmic motif? Audio 11: Beethoven, Fifth Symphony, Third movement, 15:49–16:19...Week 1: The element...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Practising science: Reading the rocks and ecology
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising science: Reading the rocks and ecology

...work to extend knowledge still further, to technologists who will devise practical applications for scientific knowledge, and to the general public to raise awareness of scientific discovery. The way in which science is communicated to interested parties is especially important because scientific knowledge is useless if no one else can understand it. This free course,...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
Interpreting data: Boxplots and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

Interpreting data: Boxplots and tables

...work!...Interpreting data: boxplots and tables: 1.4 Boxplot activity 2 - Activity 2 Boxplots of family sizes The table below contains data on the sizes (numbers of children) of the completed families of two samples of mothers in Ontario. One sample of mothers had had fewer years of education than the other sample (six years or less for mothers in the first sample, and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Transport and Sustainability
Science, Maths & Technology

Transport and Sustainability

...work. Why diesel engines have slightly higher energy efficiency than petrol engines. The reasons for the shift from petrol to diesel engines. 5 Petrol and diesel emissions Typical emissions of vehicles under ‘driving cycle’ and real-world conditions; ways to reduce NOx and particulate emissions. The importance of ‘real world’ emissions testing. The Volkswagen...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Software development for enterprise systems
Digital & Computing

Software development for enterprise systems

...working subset of the system, and is developed through several iterations. The integration of the increments results in the final system. However, this integration can be progressively achieved by successive releases of the software, each release achieving more functionality. Figure 2 illustrates an iterative and incremental model The increments represent development that...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Aquatic mammals
Nature & Environment

Aquatic mammals

...work, with example audio). These clicks are focused by the front of the skull, which is shaped like a satellite dish, and pass out into the water through a waxy structure, the ‘melon’, which acts as an acoustic lens. In this way, the animal can focus and direct the stream of sound. The returning pulses are picked up by oil-filled cavities in the lower jaw and pass...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Introducing Homer's Iliad
History & The Arts

Introducing Homer's Iliad

...Works and Days)...Introducing Homer's Iliad: 3 Homer’s oral art I - The fact that the Iliad was composed orally means that it has a number of features that are specific to this type of poetry. Even though all we have is a written version of the text, we can still identify a number of these oral features. Activity 4 Read through the opening seven lines of the Iliad...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Physical activity: a family affair
Health, Sports & Psychology

Physical activity: a family affair

...work of Jacquelynne Eccles. Eccles’ expectancy-value theory (Eccles et al., 1983; Eccles, 1993), which you will encounter in a moment, looks at parental influence on children’s motivation in achievement settings. Eccles’ theory is widely used in academic settings and has been applied to the sporting context to explain parental involvement. Activity 3 Eccles’...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs