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10 incredible people whose stories you'll find on OpenLearn
History & The Arts

10 incredible people whose stories you'll find on OpenLearn

...la machine analytique de Charles Babbage’ from the original French. At first she was content to perform only the translation, but at Babbage’s instigation, she began to add extensive annotations to the original text. These ‘algebraic working’s are what we would now call a computer program – they were the commands that would be punched into Jacquard cards and fed...
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Key historic LGBTQI+ figures
Education & Development

Key historic LGBTQI+ figures

...LA where she mainly worked in gay clubs over the next decade. The restrictive climate of the 1950s made it very difficult to be a masc-presenting lesbian and in 1952 she published an essay saying that she had been made ‘cured’ of her lesbianism and was now married to a man and started wearing dresses. The validity of this could not be provided and many people believed...
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Teaching mathematics Badge icon
Education & Development

Teaching mathematics

...c. 142 plus 286 Discussion Did you partition the numbers into smaller numbers? For example, for question (a) did you work out 40 + 30 and then work out 3 + 2? Did you bridge across a multiple of ten? For example, in question (b) did you mentally change 47 + 38 into 47 + 3 (to make 50) and then add 35? Once a learner can calculate what to add to 38 to make 100 they can...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Scotland’s links with Caribbean slavery
History & The Arts

Scotland’s links with Caribbean slavery

...La(r)mond, Wood, Walker, Elliot, Gordon and Mowatt. In the famous Bob Marley and the Wailers’ reggae band, Tosh is short for McIntosh. Other Jamaicans with Scottish names are Naomi Campbell (model), Shelley-Ann Fraser-Price (athlete) and Sol Campbell (footballer). [A cartoon of two figures wearing traditional Jamaican clothing] Glasgow University’s action in...
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Liquidity management
Money & Business

Liquidity management

...C D (lower than C) Available liquidity from assets and borrowings A + C B + D Liquidity plus net cash flow (A + C) + (X - Y) (B + D) + (M – Y) Term until exhaustion (if net cash flow is negative) (A + C) / (X - Y) (B + D) / (M - Y) Minimum term to exhaustion of cash Board to define Board to define A golden rule is to apply caution to the expected cash inflows: for...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Social work law and UK regulation
Society, Politics & Law

Social work law and UK regulation

...c) jpa1999 / istock / Getty Figure 2: (c) Homer Sykes / Alamy Stock Photo Figure 4: Volina / Shutterstock Figure 5: John Peter Photography / Alamy Stock Photo Figure 6: © Northern Ireland Assembly. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/ Figure 7: Matthew Dixon / Shutterstock Figure...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Creating open educational resources
Education & Development

Creating open educational resources

...c. Open source The correct answer is a. Select the answer for Question 2 here Android Proprietary Mixed or neither Open source a. Proprietary b. Mixed or neither c. Open source The correct answer is b. Select the answer for Question 3 here BBC iPlayer Proprietary Mixed or neither Open source a. Proprietary b. Mixed or neither c. Open source The correct answer is a. Select...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Meiosis and mitosis
Science, Maths & Technology

Meiosis and mitosis

...c) phenotype? Explain your answer. Answer (a) The karyotype is the number, size and shape of all the chromosomes and is characteristic of a species. Members of a species have the same karyotype, although there may be slight differences between males and females because of the sex chromosomes. (b) The term genotype can mean either the full complement of genes or the copies...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs