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Studying mammals: Food for thought
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Food for thought

...free course, Studying mammals: Food for thought, we will examine culture, tool use and social structure in both apes and humans to gain an understanding of where we come from and why we behave as we do. This is the tenth course in the Studying mammals series...Who were our ancestors? How are apes and humans related? And where does the extinct Homo erectus fit into the...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Squares, roots and powers
Science, Maths & Technology

Squares, roots and powers

...free course reviews the basics of all three and also describes scientific notation, which is a convenient way of writing or displaying large numbers...From paving your patio to measuring the ingredients for your latest recipe, squares, roots and powers really are part of everyday life. This free course reviews the basics of all three and also describes scientific...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...free course, Lottery of birth, will look at both the big picture of the ‘lottery of birth’ and the smaller, human stories. You will examine the inequalities of birth, particularly being born rich or poor and being born female or male...Birth is a lottery. Where, when and to whom you are born and the society into which you are born will influence your life chances....
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Number theory
Science, Maths & Technology

Number theory

...free course is an introduction to Number Theory. Section 1 provides a brief introduction to the kinds of problem that arise in Number Theory. Section 2 reviews and provides a more formal approach to a powerful method of proof, mathematical induction. Section 3 introduces and makes precise the key notion of divisibility. The Division Algorithm, concerning the division of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Teamwork: an introduction for school governors (Wales)
Education & Development

Teamwork: an introduction for school governors (Wales)

...free course was written by Carol Howells. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Robert Owen and New Lanark
History & The Arts

Robert Owen and New Lanark

...free course, Robert Owen and New Lanark, uses a series of essays written by Owen to explore the ideas of this important and controversial figure...Childcare, education, working conditions, healthcare, crime: these issues are hotly debated in today's society. They are also issues that Robert Owen, seen by some as a visionary and by others as a knave and a charlatan, sought...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Brighton Pavilion
History & The Arts

Brighton Pavilion

...free course, Brighton Pavilion, you will examine the Royal Pavilion at Brighton, and its relationship to nineteenth-century Romanticism and exoticism. You'll begin with a biographical discussion of the Prince of Wales, afterwards Prince Regent and eventually King George IV, to whose specifications the Pavilion was built. With the help of video and still images you will...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations
History & The Arts

Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations

...free course, Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations, considers some of the different ways of reading Great Expectations, based on the type of genre the book belongs to. This is one of the most familiar and fundamental ways of approaching literary texts. The novel broadens the scope of study of a realist novel, in both literary and historical terms. The course...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs