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Empires: power, resistance, legacies
History & The Arts

Empires: power, resistance, legacies

...accounts of the nature and legacies of empire. There are political volumes about diplomacy and the legislative frameworks of empire. Military histories of imperial war and conflict. Economic theses on the role of structural inequality and underdevelopment. Cultural histories of the effects of colonialism on everyday practices and identities. Historians who work with the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
How teams work
Money & Business

How teams work

...accounting department within a larger organisation is supplying a service to other parts of the organisation. The purpose of the operational team is usually specified in terms of the level of service or the quality of the goods supplied. Operational teams usually have well-defined roles and responsibilities. While the idea of team roles is typically applied to project...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Data analysis: hypothesis testing
Science, Maths & Technology

Data analysis: hypothesis testing

...accounts for the additional uncertainty inherent in estimating population parameters from sample data. Importantly, the degree of “fatness” in these tails is not constant. It depends on the sample size, a concept we will explore in more detail in the next section. Generally, as the sample size increases, the t-distribution more closely resembles the normal...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Seeing institutions in different ways
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing institutions in different ways

...accountability, transparency, for example – though they are expressed in different ways in different contexts. It is possible that your choice reflected an institution’s significance not only in shaping how development takes place, but also in framing how development is conceptualised. It is particularly important to recognise that there are institutions which govern...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Living without oil
Science, Maths & Technology

Living without oil

...accounts for about 1.4 litres of the 4 litres of crude oil each person in the author's one car household might be expected to consume each day. Coincidentally the author's calculations imply that in his household his car consumes the same amount of crude oil each day (4.1 litres) as the average UK citizen. Your calculations may give a quite different figure, depending on...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth
Education & Development

Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth

...accountable in terms of their use of theory. What are the expectations of you about why, how and when theory should inform your research? Activity 7 Theory – practice links Timing: Allow approximately 1 hour 30 minutes Go to the link below to review the Teaching and Learning Research Briefing No. 80, ‘Quality criteria for the assessment of education research in...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Wilberforce
History & The Arts

Wilberforce

...account of the movement in 1808. Second, he began purposefully to promote moral and spiritual reform at home, initially through obtaining the issue of a royal proclamation ‘for the Encouragement of Piety and Virtue’...Wilberforce: 1.4 Wilberforce in Parliament - When Wilberforce made his first major speech against the slave trade in the House of Commons in April 1789,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Marketing in the 21st Century
Money & Business

Marketing in the 21st Century

...account development – account-based marketing market and customer insight. (Source: Dibb et al., 2012, p. 632) This free course is an adapted extract from an Open University course BB844 Marketing in the 21st century...Marketing in the 21st century: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: articulate whether marketing is a process or...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs