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Data analysis: hypothesis testing
Science, Maths & Technology

Data analysis: hypothesis testing

...working as a marketing analyst for a new product launch, and you want to make sure that your market research is accurate and reliable. You need to determine the appropriate alpha level for your survey results, based on the desired confidence level. Can you determine α? Table 1 Level of alpha LEVEL OF CONFIDENCE (C) Α 90% 95% 99% Words: 0 Discussion Table 1 Level of...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change

...Working Group and he was also struggling with describing the risks at the time, he didn’t want to overhype it, but he was saying, ‘We feel that the way the statistics are stacking up it looks like humans have had an influence on the climate,’ and he trod very carefully around that and in fact we struggled as to how to communicate it, was it actually a story, I...
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Defnyddio gwaith gwirfoddol i gamu ymlaen yn y farchnad swyddi
Money & Business

Defnyddio gwaith gwirfoddol i gamu ymlaen yn y farchnad swyddi

...work section of the OU Careers Advisory Service website Yn wir, nid yw llawer o bobl yn ymwybodol o gymaint y gallent ei gynnig i'r gymuned neu i achos da, ac nid ydynt yn sylweddoli gwerth eu cryfderau a'u profiad. Mae angen i chi asesu eich sgiliau, eich profiad, eich diddordebau ac wedyn pwyso a mesur hyn oll yn erbyn eich amgylchiadau ymarferol ac unrhyw gyfyngiadau...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Getting started with Chinese 1
Languages

Getting started with Chinese 1

...work for companies that have business links with Chinese-speaking countries. Or perhaps you are simply fascinated by the sound, the script and its ancient civilisation. There are so many reasons for learning Chinese, so many motivations and rewards, but sometimes it can be difficult to know where to start. This course offers you an excellent start to achieving a basic...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
What are waves?
Science, Maths & Technology

What are waves?

...work out exactly how far away the object reflecting the sound is. This is the principle of radar which is used to map and track the locations of aircraft in the sky and ships on the sea, in this case using electromagnetic waves. It is also the same principle used by ships that send a sonar (SOund Navigation And Ranging) pulse of sound into the ocean and ‘listen’ to...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
International relations: exploring territorial divisions
Society, Politics & Law

International relations: exploring territorial divisions

...works, newspapers and the media. However, there is often little attention given to what the term actually means. Kathleen Braden and Fred Shelley define geopolitics as ‘the study of International Relations from a geographical perspective’ (2000, p. 5). From this more disciplinary perspective, space and place remain of primary importance in international relations, and...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Diversity in religion: Islam
History & The Arts

Diversity in religion: Islam

...work, whether in Malaysia and the UK, is an interest in clashing identities. So that’s quite personal for me, being gay and Muslim, but I’m also interested in other clashes. I’m in a civil partnership with an openly gay Anglican priest who has had to negotiate those clashes as well, as a gay man who’s also an ordained Christian minister. It was a huge aha moment...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere
Science, Maths & Technology

Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere

...work. He used one of the first telescopes to discover the four largest of Jupiter's satellites and the phases of Venus. His consequent support for the theory that the Earth moves around the Sun led to his imprisonment for heresy in 1633. All the giant planets have satellites. Jupiter's four largest satellites were discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei (Figure 1), using...
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Level 2: Intermediate 17 hrs