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Deep oceans can help us understand our climate
Nature & Environment

Deep oceans can help us understand our climate

...2-4 times as much carbon dioxide compared to present. A north-south transect spanning from the North Atlantic to the Southern Ocean will be used to assess deep ocean circulation and determine the evolution and stability of the AMOC during the extreme ‘greenhouse’ warmth of the early-middle Eocene. To reconstruct ocean circulation, geochemical and micropalaeontological...
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Article 5 mins
Getting started with SPSS
Society, Politics & Law

Getting started with SPSS

...2 Social sciences...Getting started with SPSS: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand how to start SPSS define a variety of statistical variables enter basic data into SPSS carry out a statistical analysis that can test hypotheses...Getting started with SPSS: 1 The SPSS statistics tutorial - This online tutorial is designed to...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Translation as a career
Languages

Translation as a career

...2) encyclopaedic knowledge (about the world in general); (3) subject knowledge (in special areas). Knowledge about translation sub-competence. Predominantly declarative knowledge, both implicit and explicit, about what translation is and aspects of the profession. It includes: (1) knowledge about how translation functions: types of translation units, processes required,...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
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Education & Development

Succeeding in postgraduate study

...2, and consider its application (reflective practice) later on in the course (Session 7). For now, let’s take a closer look at some of the key differences between postgraduate and undergraduate study...Session 1: The nature of Master’s-level study: 2 Key differences between postgraduate and undergraduate study - Here are some further thoughts on a number of the key...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Reading evidence
Society, Politics & Law

Reading evidence

...2(a). [Figure 1.2] Figure 2(a) The circuit of knowledge I You will find later in the course how concepts, theories and the arguments one can construct out of them also shape the way we use evidence and do our evaluation. But for the moment just think about concepts and theories as a way of generating descriptive and explanatory claims, see Figure 2b). [Figure 2(b)] Figure...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
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Education & Development

Primary education: listening and observing

...2 Workplace learning - Learning happens in school and outside of school. If you think of yourself as a learner, where do you think you have done the most learning? What learning was most important or memorable to you? [A photograph of a group of people, and one person has their hand up.] Figure 1 If you have ever learned in a workplace, or ‘on the job’, this probably...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Infection and immunity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Infection and immunity

...2 look ill, but how did you decide this? [Described image] Figure 2 What tells you that these children are unwell? What signs of disease can you identify from their photographs? Did the name of any infectious diseases spring to mind when you looked at these children? We expect that you noted the numerous tiny red spots on the children’s faces and shoulders and that...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Does prison work?
Society, Politics & Law

Does prison work?

...2 study in Sociology...Does prison work?: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: identify criteria to evaluate whether prison works...Does prison work?: 1 The purpose, efficacy and regulation of prisons - Richard Sparks presents a series of views about the purpose, efficacy and regulation of prisons. The audio programme was recorded in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr