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Organisations and the financial system
Money & Business

Organisations and the financial system

...et al., 2017) in a separate tab and answer the questions below. Rather than reading the full report, try to find the relevant information by skimming the article. By the end of this activity, you will have had practice in finding key information quickly from a web page or online document. Question 1 Are the models of funding healthcare exclusive or complementary? Through...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Software and the law
Science, Maths & Technology

Software and the law

...et al. (2000), and Holt and Newton (2004). The new problems may sometimes be made more complex when older laws, drafted before software and the internet existed, get reinterpreted for this new context. The internet in particular has caused the law to become more international – for when crimes are committed on the internet, it is frequently not clear where,...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
David Hume
History & The Arts

David Hume

...et left to resent such usage as this. The vehemence and explicitness of these and other attacks on Hume's character is at odds with the charity often extended to those who have recently died. Ten years later Smith expressed his amazement at the reaction to Hume's temperament before his death, and to his own description of it in the letter to Strahan: A single, and as I...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Building confidence in using online forums
Education & Development

Building confidence in using online forums

...et al., 2003). Sharing your thoughts in writing on an online forum may lead to feelings of success, especially when you get positive feedback or stimulate a discussion. So far, you have reflected on your own experiences of using online learning forums and how you feel – or would feel – about using them. You have also begun to consider some of the learning benefits of...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Exploring Ovid’s big ideas
History & The Arts

Exploring Ovid’s big ideas

...et error. [Described image] Figure 9 Photograph of a statue of Ovid that still stands today in Constanta, Romania (the location of the town that was called ‘Tomis’ in Ovid’s time). The statue was put up in 1887 and is the work of an Italian sculptor, Ettore Ferrari. The same sculptor also made a copy of this statue which was installed in Ovid’s hometown Sulmo in...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Exploring the history of prisoner education Badge icon
History & The Arts

Exploring the history of prisoner education

...et Sociétés, 16(1), pp. 47–74. Crone, R. (2022) Illiterate Inmates: Educating Criminals in Nineteenth-Century England. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Directors of Convict Prisons: Reports on Discipline and Management of Pentonville, Parkhurst, Millbank, Portland, Portsmouth and Dartmoor Prisons, and Hulks, 1852 (1852–53), Parliamentary Papers, vol. LI.385....
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Everyday maths 2
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 2

...FAQs. When you gain your badge you will receive an email to notify you and you will be able to view and manage all your badges in My OpenLearn within 24 hours of completing the criteria to gain a badge. Now get started with Session 1...Session 2: Units of measure: Introduction - In this session you will be calculating using units of measure and focusing on length, time,...
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Free course 48 hrs
Art in Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

Art in Renaissance Venice

...et al., 1990, p.150. Art in fifteenth-century Venice: `an aesthetic of diversity' Dreams and Conflicts, 2003, p.594. Burckhardt, 1990, p.19. See, for example, Welch, 1997. See Kristeller, 1965. During the writing of this chapter, an advertisement for a television series on the Medici put the received wisdom in a nutshell: `The whole of Western culture pivots on the...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs