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Systems modelling
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems modelling

...everyday life. This free course, Systems modelling, will introduce you to the modelling process, enabling you to recognise that systems models may be used in different ways as part of a process for: improving understanding of a situation; identifying problems or formulating opportunities and supporting decision making...Maps and plans, architects and engineers, drawings,...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Primary science: supporting children’s learning
Education & Development

Primary science: supporting children’s learning

...English spelling). Protons, atoms and molecules are too small to be measured in this way. virus bacteria red blood cell plant cell flea ladybird human being the Earth star solar system galaxy universe (largest) Learning about these things as separate topics means children don’t get a sense of the size of things that cannot be seen by the naked eye, or are so large that...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Brighton Pavilion
History & The Arts

Brighton Pavilion

...English Dictionary. Click below to view the four images refered to in the exercise. a207_7exercise.pdf3.3MB PDF document Discussion Holland's Marine Pavilion is notably symmetrical in conception. The original farmhouse has vanished into the left-hand wing of the new structure, which is now mirrored by an identical right-hand wing with matching bays. The composition is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
What is poetry?
History & The Arts

What is poetry?

...English syntax and you say to them, ‘What contemporary poets have you read?’ and they haven’t read any. So I, I’d say that that was very important. And to go to readings, to go and hear people read; there’s a huge amount of literary festivals now all over the place that they could go and hear live poetry readings, because hearing a poet read their own work gives...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Managing complexity: a systems approach
Society, Politics & Law

Managing complexity: a systems approach

...everyday life. I find social commentator and cartoonist Michael Leunig's depiction of a solitary figure looking through an ‘understandascope’ (Figure 2) a particularly skilled way of capturing the sense of bewilderment I sometimes feel. For the purposes of Sections 4–7 I am using his cartoon featuring the ‘understandascope’ because it raises a number of...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past

...everyday reading habits. Private Collection/Bridgeman Art Figure 4 Waiting for the Times, 1831, by Benjamin Robert Haydon UK RED contains evidence from a large number of manuscript and published journals, diaries, autobiographies and memoirs. Many are from famous individuals, such as Pepys. But the database also contains evidence of reading from a large number of diaries...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction
History & The Arts

Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction

...English Literature Part 1....Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction: Introduction - English Literature reached new mass audiences in Britain in the first decades of the twentieth century, as widespread literacy, and a lack of competition from other media – cinema and radio were in their infancy – encouraged commercial diversification and the...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Working with diversity in services for children and young people
Education & Development

Working with diversity in services for children and young people

...everyday practice with children and young people reflect critically on the implications for your own practice of the diverse social identities of the children and young people that you work with or support demonstrate an awareness of some practical strategies for working in an inclusive and participatory way with children and young people...Working with diversity in...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs