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Getting started with Spanish 1
Languages

Getting started with Spanish 1

...code on the numeric keypad; you may need to have the Num Lock on for this to work. Note: you cannot use the number keys above the letters; if your keyboard does not have a numeric keypad (and some laptops do not), then this option is not available to you. The number codes to use are in this ‘Accented character number codes’ document. In Microsoft Word, on the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Starting with law
Society, Politics & Law

Starting with law

...simple day-to-day transactions from buying a bus ticket or a cup of coffee, to more complicated matters such as employment, paying taxes, renting a home and how businesses operate. It even provides the guidelines which determine how a government may use its powers to rule. What is a law? How do we recognise laws and why are they obeyed? It is important that we decide what...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Making creativity and innovation happen
Money & Business

Making creativity and innovation happen

...simple: eliminates the need for air versatile: tire stiffness can be designed to limit energy transferred to vehicle lightweight: no inner frame needed for the tire/wheel assembly. (NASA, n.d.) NASA’s capacity to be creative in the face of non-negotiable constraints led to the development of a radically different type of tyre. It is not hard to imagine that in the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Intermediate French: Understanding spoken French
Languages

Intermediate French: Understanding spoken French

...simples. Listen to the first 25 seconds of the clip featuring Yann Renard (up to ‘Amboise’). Correct the following summary of what Yann says: Yann a 55 ans et il est directeur d’une école secondaire. Il travaille dans cette école depuis trente ans et il habite au centre-ville d’Amboise. Answer Yann a 56 ans et il est directeur d’une école primaire. Il...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century
History & The Arts

Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century

...simple physical examination. Not surprisingly, they saw no value in bringing to the bedside the skills and knowledge acquired in the laboratory. One of the staff of St Bartholomew's Hospital was reported to have told his students, ‘When you enter my wards your first duty is to forget all your physiology. Physiology is an experimental science and a very good thing no...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
The moral equality of combatants
History & The Arts

The moral equality of combatants

...code that says, ‘Well, when we break into houses and steal things, we don’t cause unnecessary harm to the inhabitants and we don’t burn the house down and don’t torture the animals and that kind of thing, while we’re doing it.’ In other words, he’s somebody who’s engaging in completely wrongful action but obeys some rules that do constrain the wrongful...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
Developing good academic practice
Education & Development

Developing good academic practice

...simple definition. Plagiarism is using the work of other people to gain some form of benefit without formally acknowledging that the work came from someone else. Plagiarism always involves three main ‘players’: The plagiarist – the person who plagiarises. Sometimes, through ignorance or negligence, a plagiarist may not realise (or may claim not to realise) that they...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Making decisions
Money & Business

Making decisions

...simple heuristics to more complex cognitive strategies in response to the importance of the situation and desired outcomes (Fiske and Taylor, 1991). What both the economic and psychological perspectives have in common is the notion of people as limited-capacity information processors and the concept of ‘bounded rationality’ (Simon, 1957): that is, there are limits to...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs