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Taking your first steps into higher education Badge icon
Education & Development

Taking your first steps into higher education

...solidity and making it look realistic and natural. This gives the artwork a positive and warm feel. The bright red on the woman’s chest and her red lips are focal points which draw the spectator’s eye. Attention is drawn to the tears and the woman feels separate from the background. There is little or no drama or contrast...Week 3: Art history in the arts and...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Dutch painting of the Golden Age
History & The Arts

Dutch painting of the Golden Age

...solid form of the windmill and the vast expanse of the cloud-filled sky. In both paintings the motif of the windmill can be given a symbolic reading. Art historians might look to emblem books, sermons and other religious texts to discover a ‘hidden’ moral and religious significance, noting, for example, that the blades of a windmill form a cross and that the grinding...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Studying mammals: The social climbers
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The social climbers

...solid vision, i.e. vision in depth, and hence enormously improves the ability to judge the distance between the viewer and the object. Try covering one eye and looking at a view or at a selection of objects on a table. The scene appears very 'flat'. Now look at the same scene with both eyes and note the illusion of depth. The larger the field of stereoscopic vision, the...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Developing resilience in sport
Health, Sports & Psychology

Developing resilience in sport

...solid in your training. CATH PENDLETON And then yeah, the freezer journey began. Yeah. I was thinking, if I can’t just sit in this freezer, then I’m going to really struggle. Although I felt I could do it, there was always that element of doubt. After six days at sea, we had arrived. If the swim was to go ahead here, we would be the first people in the world to swim a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
You and your money
Money & Business

You and your money

...liquidity constraints and interest rates matter for consumer behavior? Evidence from credit card data’, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 117, pp. 149–85. Hellebrandt, T. and Young, G. (2008) ‘The financial position of British households: evidence from the 2008 NMG Research survey’, Bank of England Quarterly Bulletin, Quarter 4, pp. 384–2. HouseWeb (2010)...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Art and life in ancient Egypt
History & The Arts

Art and life in ancient Egypt

...solid rock, decorating them with paintings, texts and sculptures, and building an imposing entrance and courtyard. Watch this video in which Richard Parkinson and Paul Wood talk about Nebamun. INTERVIEWER: These paintings are so alive that it's quite easy to forget that they're 3,000 years old. And that we don't know everything... RICHARD PARKINSON: We don't know it at...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
Childhood in the digital age
Education & Development

Childhood in the digital age

...solid body of evidence becomes available. Whether you are a digital optimist or pessimist, it’s obvious that while technology can bring about opportunities, it also has potential associated risks. This has led to some paediatricians, psychiatrists and psychologists arguing that parents should limit young children’s use of, and exposure to, new digital technologies....
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Successful IT systems
Digital & Computing

Successful IT systems

...the likely running costs.’ Once an IT partner had been tendered for and identified, a solid plan for the migration needed to be worked out. ‘We took all the elements of our IT and categorised it into six key areas,’ says Taylor. ‘That meant the data centre, network, outlets, end-user computing, central services and applications. Then we looked at the outputs that we wanted from each of those areas, the cost base and the ......
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs