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Death and medicine: postponement and promise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Death and medicine: postponement and promise

...2 study in Health & Social Care. If you find this course interesting, take a look at the Open University course K220 Death, Dying and Bereavement. Alternatively, you can explore the related OpenLearn course, An introduction to death, dying and grief...Death and medicine: Postponement and promise: Learning outcomes - After completing this course, you should be able to:...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Surface water
Nature & Environment

Surface water

...at various points along their courses. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 2 study in Environment & Development...Surface water: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: list the types of springs, and how each type relates to a different geological setting use hydrographs to distinguish overland flow and interflow from baseflow, and make inferences about the climate of an area ......
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Asset allocation in investment
Money & Business

Asset allocation in investment

...2 Table 2 MODEL PORTFOLIO %UK EQUITIES %ROW EQUITIES %GILTS %TBILLS GEOMETRIC RETURN % STD. DEV Conservative 10% 10% 10% 70% 10.6 3.6 Moderately Conservative 20% 20% 20% 40% 11.8 7.2 Moderate 30% 30% 30% 10% 12.9 10.8 Moderately Aggressive 50% 30% 15% 5% 13.8 14.0 Aggressive 80% 15% 0% 5% 14.8 17.9 Here a conservative portfolio for an investor with low risk tolerance and...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
The family at the centre of early learning
Education & Development

The family at the centre of early learning

...2 Exploring learning in family situations - A socio-cultural view of learning is that it involves coming to understand different possibilities in relationships with others (Lave and Wenger, 1991). This means that parents are frequently engaging in learning interactions, guiding their children’s participation in everyday, authentic activities without necessarily being...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
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Money & Business

Entrepreneurship – from ideas to reality

...2: From idea to reality: Introduction - Many new businesses fail within two years of starting up – 50 per cent within three years (Business Wales, 2018). Have you thought about how you can avoid this happening to you? In the last session you considered sources of ideas; indeed you may already have an idea, but what happens next? In this session you will consider the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM

...2. Getting started with SoTL 3. Formulating a SoTL inquiry 4. Students as partners and ethical considerations in SoTL research 5. Planning and conducting SoTL research 6. Making SoTL public and impact evaluation of SoTL Terminology SoTL is often carried out collaboratively: for example, a team may constitute educators and learning designers; or educators of different...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Researching Nirvana: Whatever, Nevermind
History & The Arts

Researching Nirvana: Whatever, Nevermind

...Schuman and Jacqueline Scott. 1989. “Generations and Collective Memory.” American Sociological Review 54: 359-384. Barry Schwartz and Howard Schuman. 2005. “History, Commemoration, and Belief: Abraham Lincoln in American Memory, 1945-2001.” American Sociological Review 70(2): 183-203. This article was originally published by The Society Pages under a CC-BY licence...
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Article 5 mins
How many different types of smile are there?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How many different types of smile are there?

...2 per cent of people were found to smile this way. Cosmetic surgeons, who have to be meticulous in identifying the smiles that their patients are paying good money to try to achieve, call these three types commissure, cuspid and complex, respectively. Phuong Nguyen, a Philadelphia plastic and reconstructive surgeon, attempts to clarify the matter using celebrities. The...
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