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History & The Arts

Voice-leading analysis of music 3: the background

...free courses AA314_1 and AA314_2. In this free course, Voice-leading analysis of music 3: the background, you will use Beethoven's Eighth Symphony to consider the largest-scale stage of voice-leading analysis...The music of Mozart has been used to examine the foreground and middleground of harmony in free courses AA314_1 and AA314_2. In this ......

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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs

Science, Maths & Technology

Metric spaces and continuity

...free course contains an introduction to metric spaces and continuity. The key idea is to use three particular properties of the Euclidean distance as the basis for defining what is meant by a general distance function, a metric. Section 1 introduces the idea of a metric space and shows how this concept allows us to generalise the notion of continuity. Section 2 develops...

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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs

Science, Maths & Technology

Analytical science: secrets of the Mary Rose

...free course, Analytical science: secrets of the Mary Rose, teaches you about the analytical techniques that are used in the research and investigation of historical objects using the case study of the Mary Rose. It covers the use of sonar to locate shipwrecks, and the analysis of the artefacts found on the ship, and the crew and their remains...This free course,...

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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs

Science, Maths & Technology

Point estimation

...free course looks at point estimation, that is, the estimation of the value of the parameter of a statistical model by a single number, a point estimate for the parameter. Section 1 develops some aspects of maximum likelihood estimation. In particular, you will find out how to obtain the maximum likelihood estimator of an unknown parameter, using calculus. You will need...

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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs

Nature & Environment

Surviving the winter

...free course, Surviving the winter, we study one aspect of the fluctuating nature of an organisms environment. We consider how organisms living in a temperate climate, such as that in Britain, are adapted to cope with winter. You will see that there is much diversity of adaptations among organisms, with different species coping with the demands of a fluctuating environment...

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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs

Education & Development

Geography in education: exploring a definition

...free course, Geography in education: exploring a definition, is aimed at geography teachers, or those with an interest in studying or teaching geography. It looks at the contribution that geography can make in the education of young people and the characteristics and purpose of geography as a subject...This free course, Geography in education: exploring a definition, is...

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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs

History & The Arts

Introduction to law in Wales

...free course, Introduction to law in Wales, gives a brief overview of the legal history in Wales from the 12th century, followed by an overview of devolution and referendums, the law making powers of the Welsh Assembly and the possible future for legal Wales...This free course, Introduction to law in Wales, gives a brief overview of the legal history in Wales from the 12th...

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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs

Science, Maths & Technology

Univariate continuous distribution theory

...free course looks at a number of the basic properties of statistical models. Section 1 is concerned with the distributions of continuous random variables which are described by their probability density functions (pdfs) and cumulative distribution functions (cdfs). Section 2 is concerned with moments and covers, the concept of expectation or expected value, the familiar...

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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs

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