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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
Advanced French: At the science museum in Paris
Languages

Advanced French: At the science museum in Paris

...social où on voit, euh, toute l’organisation. Là, on force l’observation des enfants, des adultes aussi qui viennent là, et qui s’amusent beaucoup. Et donc de ce fait-là, on voit quelque chose de naturel, de vivant. On voit un écosystème vivre. La Cité des sciences Select the answer for Question 1a here 1. La Cité des sciences et de l’industrie est située...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 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
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
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
Leo Tolstoy on King Lear
History & The Arts

Leo Tolstoy on King Lear

...work of which there are no words that would be fit or good to say. Another of these is Cordelia. The place they have in our lives and thoughts is not one for talk. The niche set apart for them to inhabit in our secret hearts is not penetrable by the lights and noises of common day. There are chapels in the cathedrals of man's highest art, as in that of his inmost life,...
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Getting started with German 2
Languages

Getting started with German 2

...work on your speaking skills and pronunciation. First, you will revise some vocabulary to get you talking. Guten Appetit! Enjoy your meal!...Week 2: Ich esse gern…: 1 The adverb gern - If you want to say what you like to do in German, you can do so by just adding the word gern after the verb (you may also hear people say gerne). The verb itself (for example ich esse,...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change

...working out the numbers for himself that he thinks are right for how sensitive the earth’s climate is to CO2, how much warming would we get say if we doubled CO2? So he comes to conferences and he defends his ideas, and there are a lot of people who’ve in some senses gathered around him and people like Matt Ridley, to hold that position of a lukewarm future. RH: Do...
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