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

Taking your first steps into higher education

...podcasts/series/reith (Accessed 5 September 2014). Tate Collection (2004) The Perfect Place to Grow 2001 [Online]. Available at www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid =81057 (Accessed February 2006). Week 4...Week 3: Art history in the arts and humanities: Acknowledgements - This week was written by John Butcher. Except for third party materials and...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Translation as a career
Languages

Translation as a career

...podcasts on my way to work). What advice would you give students who already have a level C1 in their second language and who are about to embark on an MA in Translation? My main piece of advice would be to focus on idiomatic language and collocations. Good translation is about making language sound natural, which is difficult to do without the knowledge of how idiomatic...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Intermediate German: Understanding spoken German
Languages

Intermediate German: Understanding spoken German

...Podcasts, films, music, there's plenty of choice out there. Don't focus on trying to understand everything you hear. Instead try to enjoy the sound and flow and get comfortable with it. If you enjoy this OpenLearn course, you might be interested in the Open University course L113 German Studies 1: language and culture of the German-speaking world...Intermediate German:...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
What happens to you when you read?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens to you when you read?

...podcasts to newspaper articles to tweets, could offer a distraction from the worry; it could offer a way of dealing with the boredom of lockdown; it could make you feel less alone. The idea of ‘transportation’ as you’ve learned about it here seems particularly relevant to some of these thoughts about reading in difficult times. As critical as this idea has been for...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Could we control our climate? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Could we control our climate?

...mathematical concept, not something that can be observed directly, and its definition is not exact or fixed. The fact that climate is a distribution – a set of probabilities – is at the heart of many of the difficulties in studying the climate crisis. It also influences public understanding and decision-making around the subject...Session 1: What is ‘engineering the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
What is Europe?
Society, Politics & Law

What is Europe?

...mathematics were in fact the development of mathematics and astronomy and so on and played a crucial role in the Renaissance. To those who wish to emphasis Russia’s otherness, I would emphasise against that it’s hard to think of European culture without thinking of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky and Tchaikovsky and Mussorgsky and Shostakovich and Russian ballet is the...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Algorithmic Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Algorithmic Design

...mathematics for visual effect. He created intricate drawings, lithographs, and woodcuts. Today, Escher’s prints are widely used in all forms of decorative design. [Described image] Figure 20 Horsemen drawing by Escher In these skills, you are only going to focus on regular tessellations of square tiles. Squares are easy to think about and code, and you can make some...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Estimating the cost of equity
Money & Business

Estimating the cost of equity

...mathematical techniques covered in this course. These examples show you how to: use the DVM to calculate the expected return on a share use the DVM to calculate the expected return on a share using the share’s dividend yield find the equity risk premium (ERP) using: a dividend yield growth expectations for dividend yield and the risk-free rate. This is the third way of...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs