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Rural entrepreneurship in Wales
Money & Business

Rural entrepreneurship in Wales

...simple tool to use when embarking on the early stages of planning a marketing strategy, and we will work primarily with the four Ps. These four tools (product, price, place and promotion) are interdependent and the trick is to find the right ‘mix’ to satisfy customers...Rural entrepreneurship in Wales: 3.4.1 Product (or service) - The product or service relates to...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
David Hume
History & The Arts

David Hume

...simple claim: Empiricism (roughly characterised): opinions are reasonable if, and only if, they are supported by evidence that is ultimately grounded in experience. ‘Experience’, here, can mean everyday observation using one or more of the five senses, but it is also meant to include rigorous scientific experimentation. Respect for this principle is what supposedly...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare
History & The Arts

Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare

...simple, more ‘natural’ diets. They stopped consuming alcohol, tea, coffee and meat, and ate fruit, vegetables and cereals (the word ‘muesli’ was adopted into the English language at this time). The popularity of ‘health foods’ (such as ‘Hovis’ wholemeal bread) and vegetarianism grew from the mid-nineteenth century to become a mass movement in Germany and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Creative writing and critical reading
History & The Arts

Creative writing and critical reading

...simple language to create authentic yet lively dialogue. It helps to use a non-chronological or nonlinear approach like this in your critical reading of performance and script – for example, picking out how individual scenes start, how they end, how dialogue works in social settings, how monologues operate. Reading specific sections in isolation reminds you that a...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Everyday maths 1 (Northern Ireland)
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 1 (Northern Ireland)

...simple conclusions from it. Moving around the course The easiest way to navigate around the course is through the ‘My course progress’ page. You can get back there at any time by clicking on ‘Back to course’ in the menu bar. It’s also good practice, if you access a link from within a course page (including links to the quizzes), to open it in a new window or...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
Learning, thinking and doing
Science, Maths & Technology

Learning, thinking and doing

...simple scheme for discriminating between the demands made on you, the learner, by different kinds of learning goals and the processes entailed in achieving those goals. Theorists of learning have different ways of categorising the diversity of both outcome and process in learning. The scheme we are going to work with here uses three distinct kinds of learning: memorising,...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Company law in context
Society, Politics & Law

Company law in context

...simple at this stage by not looking at a business run by a company, but at one which is simply run by an individual person. Activity 2: What is a business? Timing: 0 hours 20 minutes Imagine you had decided to open a newsagents. What are the different things you would need to do in order to set up in business and trade? Think of as many ways as you can in which the law...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic
OpenLearn Ireland

Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic

...simple structure: The Brother’s Grimm, Little Red Riding Hood. At the start of the story, our protagonist introduces us to her normal life living with her family. The inciting incident, or hook, occurs when her mother asks her to deliver a basket of food to her Granny, who lives in the forest. The slow rise in tension occurs as she makes her way through the woods and we...
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Article 45 mins