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Geometry
Science, Maths & Technology

Geometry

...Simple geometric shapes are studied in mathematics partly because they are used in thousands of practical applications. For instance, triangles occur in bridges, pylons and, more mundanely, in folding chairs; rectangles occur in windows, cinema screens and sheets of paper; while circles are an essential part of wheels, gears and plates. By definition, triangles are shapes...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Decision trees and dealing with uncertainty
Money & Business

Decision trees and dealing with uncertainty

...simple examples of how you might estimate a probability. Most people will have an instinctive feel for what probability is. Probability is a measure of how likely it is that something will occur. How might you assess that likelihood? Probability: first principles To begin, you might be able to derive a number from first principles. For example, it is hopefully obvious...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Getting started on classical Latin
History & The Arts

Getting started on classical Latin

...simple and straightforward in style, while Latinate words can seem more scientific and academic. So simple words and phrases such as go down, high, sad, speed up, watch, hate, do well and hide, for example, can be contrasted with words of Latin origin like descend, elevated, miserable, accelerate, observe, detest, succeed and conceal. But do bear in mind that not all...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
What do we mean by digital health and social care?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What do we mean by digital health and social care?

...simple use of electronic records through to more complex artificial intelligence and robotics in surgery. You will probably have heard a lot of different terms to describe digital health and social care technology. For example, the Digital Health & Care Institute (2018) use the term ‘Health Information Technology’ (HIT), The Welsh Government (2015), National Institute...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
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Languages

How to learn a language

...simple way provided the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help. A2 Can understand sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas of most immediate relevance (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment). Can communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?

...simple matter. There is no unified agreement about what it involves. For example, in a study examining how collaboration was framed by special education programmes for US teachers (Brownell, Ross, Colón, & McCallum, 2005), half took a traditional, special education style, competency-based approach and the rest sought a collective examination of multiple knowledge bases....
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
What is poetry?
History & The Arts

What is poetry?

...simple expression of feelings, more than what ‘really’ happened...What is poetry?: 3 What is poetry? - We can possibly best define what poetry is by saying what it isn’t. For one thing, poetry, unlike prose, cannot be paraphrased. If you could sum it up succinctly in any other fashion you wouldn’t write the poem. One can talk about the theme of a poem, for...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Nine days' wonder in York
History & The Arts

Nine days' wonder in York

...simple church in the crypt of the Minster when we went the next morning and were herded through it by the tenderest of vergers. Most of our flock were Americans, and we put our guide to such question in matters of imagination and information as the patience of a less amiable shepherd would not have borne. Many a tale, true or o'ertrue, our verger had, which he told with...
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Article 10 mins