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Describing language Badge icon
Languages

Describing language

...concept of ‘language’ you then turned your attention to the smallest units of meaning: morphemes. You examined these building blocks of words, considered the different characteristics and functions of ‘bound’ and ‘free’ morphemes, and learned how they combine to make longer words. Armed with this knowledge, you could unpack just some of the ways people use...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Network security
Digital & Computing

Network security

...concepts that underpin approaches to achieving network security, rather than provide you with the knowledge to procure and implement a secure network. The Communications-Electronics Security Group is the government's national technical authority for information assurance. If you need to investigate matters relating to procurement and implementation, you should refer to...
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
Introducing computing and IT
Digital & Computing

Introducing computing and IT

...concept of an information society is a key one in this course and the next section will give you a better idea of what it involves...Introducing computing and IT: 2 Some aspects of our information society - Timing This section of the course should take you around three hours to complete. If you don’t have time to work through it all at once, there are break points where...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
History & The Arts

John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

...conception of marriage was very much associated with the upper classes. It is important to recognise that there was an alternative view available, often called the companionate ideal of marriage, which (as its name suggests) placed love and compatibility above the demands of family honour. This very different notion of marriage derived from the Protestant belief that...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Critical criminology and the social sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Critical criminology and the social sciences

...concepts of crime, social order and constructions of deviance. This generation of criminologists, influenced by a rapidly changing social world, denounced what they had come to view as the ‘mainstream criminological ideology’ (Taylor et al., 1973). It is here that the story of critical criminology begins...Critical criminology and the social sciences: 2.1 What does it...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Studying mammals: Return to the water
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Return to the water

...concept to pin down. Answer I noted the following points: Strategy and tactics: the dolphins identify a suitable target (a shoal of fish) and plan ahead (edging the shoal close to the bank or the surface of the water). Teamwork and cooperation: working together to achieve a common goal. The use of communication to coordinate behaviour. The adoption of specific roles...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Meiosis and mitosis
Science, Maths & Technology

Meiosis and mitosis

...concept of the gene as the unit of inheritance understand that sexual reproduction always includes two distinctive processes: the production of gametes, which involves meiosis, and fertilisation. understand that a particular phenotypic character is determined by the two copies of a gene that an organism possesses and these two copies are identical in a pure-breeding...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Estimating the cost of equity
Money & Business

Estimating the cost of equity

...concepts and issues covered. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course B858 Introduction to corporate finance...Estimating the cost of equity: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: select and justify a suitable risk-free rate and equity risk premium for use in determining the expected return for a share...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs