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10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn

...et des couleurs, on ne discute pas’ (‘each to their own’). Whilst this expression suggests that we should never quibble over colours, chromatic terms can nonetheless provide a rich source of discussion for language learners who want to extend their knowledge of idiomatic expressions in the target language. Indeed, there are many descriptions and metaphorical...
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The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present
History & The Arts

The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present

...circulates around each spoke and becomes turbulent (i.e. with a complex and erratic movement). This limitation moves the solution to a wheel design with four or five broad spokes. Since this is better manufactured in one piece, it requires a spoke that can take tensile and compressive (i.e. stretching and squeezing) loads. Something the modern day Olympians share with...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Unsolved problems in cosmology
Science, Maths & Technology

Unsolved problems in cosmology

...et al. (2017), and answer the following questions. a.What do the authors suggest are the most likely candidate dark matter particles? What reasons do they give for this? b.How do direct detection experiments work, and why are they difficult to undertake? c.What methods might enable the detection of axions? Discussion a.The two currently favoured dark matter candidates are...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Continuing classical Latin
History & The Arts

Continuing classical Latin

...et insidias Arrius hinsidias, Et tum mirifice sperabat se esse locutum Cum quantum poterat dixerat hinsidias. ‘Arrius used to say hadvantages, when he meant to say advantages, and hambushes when he wanted to say ambushes. He would think that he had spoken splendidly, when he had said hambushes as loud as he could.’ Arrius spoke a variety of Latin which had lost h- at...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Assessment in secondary science
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary science

...et al., 2004, p. 10) that such assessment becomes assessment for learning. Assess the effectiveness of their teaching. As well as assessing students’ learning, teachers must also assess their own actions. Assessment provides evidence about the effectiveness of the decisions that teachers take, so that they can modify their actions accordingly. Assessing students’...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Assessment in secondary mathematics
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary mathematics

...et al. (2003) established that formative assessment can make a huge difference to students’ attainment as well as to their attitudes towards learning. This course will ask you to question what it means to make progress in mathematics, to consider what and how to assess, and to challenge assumptions about assessment. Most importantly, you will learn how to use assessment...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Basic science: understanding numbers
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding numbers

...doubled. NARRATOR 2 In China, market growth has been even more spectacular. From a relatively tiny 400 million litres in 1991, to over 15 billion litres in 2007. Growing income levels, particularly in urban China, are leading to changing consumer behaviour. While most rural people still drink boiled water, the majority of urbanites now drink bottled water. Most people...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Blood and the respiratory system
Science, Maths & Technology

Blood and the respiratory system

...circulates around the body, but it is important to note that the lungs differ from other organs in that deoxygenated blood is carried to the lungs via arterioles (and larger arteries), whereas oxygenated blood leaves the lungs along venules (and larger veins). Video 3 Exchange of CO2 and O2 carried by blood in the pulmonary capillaries within the alveoli of the lungs....
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs