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Getting started with French 3
Languages

Getting started with French 3

...humaine. Select the answer for Question 1c here C’est un musée national. True False a. True b. False The correct answer is b. Discussion C’est un musée régional. Select the answer for Question 1d here Le musée est près de l’église Saint-Jacques. True False a. True b. False The correct answer is a. Discussion True Part 2 Read the text again and identify all the...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
An appreciative approach to inquiry
Education & Development

An appreciative approach to inquiry

...central to its aims. It is this focus on generating different views, practices, ways of talking and speaking about what is happening that allows us to: challenge assumptions that underpin cultures of institutions, professions, fields of study reconsider aspects of practice that are ‘taken for granted’, allowing minor practices to become foregrounded change how people...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis

...central tenet of ecopsychology is the exploration of the reciprocal human–nature relationship and in particular the human mind as it relates to nature. Rust (2020) describes it as ‘the study (logos) of the soul (psyche) in its natural home (ecos)’ (p. 51). Ecopsychologists claim that ecological and psychological health are mutually dependent (Roszak, Gomes and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
The restless Universe
Science, Maths & Technology

The restless Universe

...central part of science. Carefully defined concepts, often expressed in mathematical terms, are related by natural laws which are themselves often expressed in a mathematical form. Just what those laws are is a central concern of physicists, who see their branch of science as the one most directly concerned with discovering and applying the fundamental laws of Nature....
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
The search for water on Mars
Science, Maths & Technology

The search for water on Mars

...central to many missions to the red planet...The search for water on Mars: 2 Why search for water? - As you have seen in Figure 1, two-thirds of the Earth’s surface is covered in water; however, it is not evenly distributed across the globe. For those living in humid climates (such as at The Open University’s campus in Milton Keynes, UK), water can be easily taken for...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’
History & The Arts

Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’

...central theme in this course. Behind the assumption that an artist's life and the meaning of his or her work are closely related lies a series of other assumptions and traditions in the history of art...Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’: 1.2 The myth of the artist - Consider Howard Hibbard's analysis of Caravaggio's The Martyrdom of St Matthew in the Contarelli chapel...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
An introduction to artificial intelligence
Education & Development

An introduction to artificial intelligence

...central to AI, including machine learning, reinforcement learning and genetic algorithms. A summer workshop is held at Dartmouth College in 1956. This is widely recognised as the event where the term ‘Artificial Intelligence’ was first publicly used to describe the new discipline. 1960s The ELIZA programme, written by Joseph Weizenbaum in 1965, is an interactive...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Dutch painting of the Golden Age
History & The Arts

Dutch painting of the Golden Age

...central administrative body was established in The Hague, each of the Provinces that made up the Netherlands was largely self-governing, allowing for greater independence and the development of strong local identities and traditions, particularly in large cities such as Amsterdam, Utrecht, Leiden, Haarlem and Delft. While agriculture and livestock remained important, it...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs