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Reading evidence
Society, Politics & Law

Reading evidence

...techniques for working with large sets of numerical evidence and the presentation of summaries of their main features. For example, the bar chart is one of the most popular ways of presenting numbers. What, though, are the differences between this and some alternative representation of numbers, and why do we use one method rather than another? Let's take as an example...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Diagrams, charts and graphs
Science, Maths & Technology

Diagrams, charts and graphs

...technique. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 1 study in Mathematics...Diagrams, charts and graphs: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: draw and interpret scale diagrams extract information from tables draw, interpret and compare pie charts, bar charts and frequency diagrams use and interpret coordinates plot points and...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Building motivation and resilience in research
Science, Maths & Technology

Building motivation and resilience in research

...techniques and strategies to broaden your toolkit. Take some reflection and/or action notes in the box below, based on your score. [Resilience in Action: Traits and Strategies] So, to wrap up this section: resilience isn’t something only a few ‘extraordinary’ scientists have. It’s actually a set of skills and attitudes that anyone can build with practice,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Building relationships with donors
Money & Business

Building relationships with donors

...techniques can only take you so far, you still need to find the approach and the turns of phrase that will strike chords with a range of potential supporters. You still need to present the benefits, to the donor and to others, of the request you are making. And above all, you still need to make the request and to indicate a range of possible responses...Building...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Voice-leading analysis of music 3: the background
History & The Arts

Voice-leading analysis of music 3: the background

...techniques of voice-leading analysis were first developed in German-speaking scholarship. One result is that technical terms exist in both German and 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...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Children’s perspectives on play
Education & Development

Children’s perspectives on play

...technique, arising from research on young children (Paige-Smith and Rix, 2011), could be of use in early years settings. You may like to try it out in your home or your professional setting. Key points There is a sense in which every new parent learns afresh about play through observing and interacting with their own child. Being a parent enables an intimate personal...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Supply chain sustainability
Money & Business

Supply chain sustainability

...techniques involved, which we don't have capability of doing internally. And so I've actually appointed an original design provider here in China who are going to help us take our design, do the design for manufacture. So that's looking at the printed circuit boards and making sure they're right for the machinery; looking at the plastics, making sure that, when you're...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Supporting climate action through digital education
Education & Development

Supporting climate action through digital education

...techniques used in Small Solutions for Big Problems could support discussion of how animation, illustration and music could be used to convey other topics related to climate science. If you’re addressing the climate crisis through teaching in an arts subject, you could support students in storyboarding a video addressing a related topic of their choice, including...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs