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Risk management Badge icon
Money & Business

Risk management

...concept of risk as being ‘an uncertain future outcome that will improve or worsen our position’. There are two implied elements about this definition that should be noted: it is probabilistic – the likely outcome can be assessed, but is not known with certainty it is two-sided – the outcome may be favourable or adverse. Strictly speaking, the ‘favourable or...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Discovering music through listening
History & The Arts

Discovering music through listening

...concept of a ‘home’ chord to orient the listener; we are aware when the music departs from the home chord, and aware when the music returns home (giving a feeling of completeness)...Week 3: Harmony: 1.1 Consonant and dissonant harmonies - When two or more pitches are sounded together to form a chord, the choice of the pitches combined is important. Not all...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
You and your money
Money & Business

You and your money

...concepts and evidence - Let’s start by examining exactly what is meant by ‘debt’. You may be familiar with the concept of assets and liabilities. Assets are things that people own at a point in time. By contrast, a debt is a liability. Liabilities are effectively the opposite of assets: they are amounts, or stocks, of money that people owe at a particular point in...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
The many guises of the emperor Augustus
History & The Arts

The many guises of the emperor Augustus

...concept in Rome. Kings hadn’t ruled Rome since they were chased out 500 years earlier and The (Roman) Republic was established. Rome prided itself on its constitution based on a collective duty to be politically involved and saw monarchy as barbaric and immoral. Consequently, and because his adoptive father Julius Caesar had been assassinated for his monarchic...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Political ordering
Society, Politics & Law

Political ordering

...concepts; theories and evidence interpret and criticise different forms of evidence, both quantitative and qualitative read and understand information from tables, graphs, charts and diagrams...Political ordering: 1 ‘Political ordering’ (Georgina Blakeley and Michael Saward) - This section includes an extended case study of mural paintings in Northern Ireland. Case...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through

...concept of what TAs in this research described as ‘knowing their place’ in relation to managing behaviour will be introduced and discussed. Strategies to support TAs in ‘knowing their place’ in a positive, as opposed to pejorative way in managing behaviour will be considered through a range of different approaches to their direct work with children and teachers....
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Getting started with Italian 1
Languages

Getting started with Italian 1

...concept as soon as possible in your Italian studies. Nouns and their gender When learning a foreign language for the first time, you will become familiar with simple grammatical terms such as ‘noun’, ‘verb’, ‘adjective’ and so on. People, animals, objects and abstract concepts are all nouns. All Italian nouns – not just people and animals – have a gender;...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Getting started with German 2
Languages

Getting started with German 2

...concepts that will improve your ability to hold sophisticated conversations in German and understand more complex language in a variety of different scenarios. This OpenLearn course is an extract from the beginning of the Open Centre for Languages and Cultures short course, LGXG002 Beginners German 2: mit Vergnügen! After completing this free course, you may wish to...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs