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Carrying out research for policy and advocacy work
Society, Politics & Law

Carrying out research for policy and advocacy work

...English and relatable examples. As Anvar discusses in the video, policy research can take many forms, and you will look at these later in the section. However, when starting your policy research, it is important to have a clear aim or research question which will then guide your research and analysis. You will learn more about this in the next two sections: research...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Voice-leading analysis of music 3: the background
History & The Arts

Voice-leading analysis of music 3: the background

...English. This course uses the English translations of terms. As you saw just now, the form of a tonal piece of music is based on one particular note of the tonic triad, which is prolonged (normally through the bulk of the piece) in the top voice of the harmony. This note is called the primary tone (or the head-note). In Example 5, A (the third of the tonic chord F major)...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...ENGLISH SINGING] So there’s been such an upsurge in manual drilling. This probably is a reflection of the fact of population growth and the demand, and as well as, because the municipal water supplies from the state’s water agencies and corporations are not keeping up with the demand, so that a lot of people, most middle income households, now have to provide their...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
For some people, staying awake might help fight depression
Health, Sports & Psychology

For some people, staying awake might help fight depression

...English, which she’d claimed not to speak. By dawn, Angelina’s telling me about the family history she’s started writing, which she’d like to pick up again, and inviting me to stay with her in Sicily. How could something as simple as staying awake overnight bring about such a transformation? Unpicking the mechanism isn’t straightforward: we still don’t fully...
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Article 15 mins
Leadership: external context and culture
Education & Development

Leadership: external context and culture

...English medium school which offers students the chance to enter some of the best universities around the world, reflecting the increasing internationalisation of the educational marketplace. YUAN LIU Now the majority of the Chinese students who wants to go abroad, they pick up American universities rather than UK. And from my school's practice is about something like, you...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Why maps are made
Society, Politics & Law

Why maps are made

...English clockmaker who invented the accurate means of establishing longitude. However, maps produced in the USA, for example, often have the Americas in the centre. Key Maps should have a key (sometimes called a legend) which describes and explains the symbols used to depict features on the map. We may be accustomed to the symbols used by our Ordnance Survey, but maps are...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Primary education: listening and observing Badge icon
Education & Development

Primary education: listening and observing

...English as an additional language. The transcripts provide practical examples of how adults in school can learn about children, such as listening nearby while children work, or by working alongside children and talking with them...Session 1: Observing and listening to primary school children: 4.1 Observing and listening: case study 1 - [A photograph of two children...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Intermediate Spanish: A trip across Latin America
Languages

Intermediate Spanish: A trip across Latin America

...English, but this course is mainly in Spanish. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course L226 Spanish Studies 2: language and culture of the Spanish-speaking world...Intermediate Spanish: A trip across Latin America: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the language of rights and obligations...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs