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Sut daeth jazz i Gymru
History & The Arts

Sut daeth jazz i Gymru

...Double Shuffle a'r dawnsiau Louisiana Toe ‘n’ Heel. Gwnaeth rhai cwmnïau cerddoriaeth Cymreig a oedd yn perfformio ag wyneb du gynnwys harmoniwm yn eu Skedaddles, a oedd yn nodwedd leol iddynt. Ar ddechrau'r ugeinfed ganrif, roedd y gerddoriaeth yn esblygu i gyffro newydd ragtime, neu gyfnod raggedy, a'r gystadleuaeth troelli ar y llawr dawnsio, y cakewalk, gyda'i...
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Developing high trust work relationships
Money & Business

Developing high trust work relationships

...et al., 1995) …trust is both the specific expectation that another’s actions will be beneficial rather than detrimental and the generalized ability to take for granted, to take under trust, a vast array of features of the social order. (Douglad Creed and Miles, 1996, p. 17) From these definitions of trust we can see a number of different issues emerge. Each definition...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Working with our environment: an introduction
Nature & Environment

Working with our environment: an introduction

...et al., published by Open University Worldwide. Where particular skills, such as reading, note taking and using diagrams may be needed to help your study, you can read the appropriate section. How often you will need to do this will, of course, depend on your existing skills. Finally the course contains some Exercises and Self-assessment Questions (SAQs) which I recommend...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
Exploring depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring depression

...et al., 2015). The 12-month prevalence of depression in Europe is 6.9% (Bschor et al., 2014). Anxiety disorders can precede depression, and symptoms can overlap, with anxiety often co-existing with depression. The course of illness can be episodic with periods of ill health and recovery. More than half of depressed patients recover within six months, but in around 15% of...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Art and visual culture: medieval to modern
History & The Arts

Art and visual culture: medieval to modern

...et al., 2007, pp. 291–303). Earlier written evidence that works of art were recognised as offering visual delight quite apart from function and meaning is sparse but there is a little. In a treatise written sometime between 1227 and his death in 1254, Lucas, Bishop of Tuy in Spain, reiterated the medieval convention that the purpose of religious art in churches was both...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Childhood in the digital age
Education & Development

Childhood in the digital age

...et al., 2014). The EU Kids Online Network project, called Zero to Eight, illustrates just how pervasive technology is becoming for younger children. The project report identified a significant increase over the previous five years of children under nine years old using the internet (Holloway et al., 2013). In particular it noted a growing trend for very young children...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view
Society, Politics & Law

Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view

...circulating in the economy as a whole. And Keynes said this was really important because sometimes the economy fails because the private sector loses confidence in the economy. Loses what he called animal spirits. And then firms hang on to their money. They don’t want to invest. The economy doesn’t grow. And it’s important in that situation for the government to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 28 hrs
Stonehenge before the First World War
History & The Arts

Stonehenge before the First World War

...sang and shouted; and by and by, just outside the barbed-wire enclosure a rabbit was unearthed, and about three hundred young men with shrieks of excitement set about its capture. It was a lively scene, a general scrimmage, in which everyone was trying to capture an elusive football with ears and legs to it, which went darting and spinning about hither and thither among...
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