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Introducing Homer's Iliad
History & The Arts

Introducing Homer's Iliad

...attention to a disjunction between what is expected of Achilles in traditional storytelling and the (new, perhaps even radical) version that Homer sings...Introducing Homer's Iliad: 3.3 Homeric music - You’ve now completed a close reading of the first seven lines of the Iliad, thinking about the effects of metre, word order, epithets, and the audience’s knowledge of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Understanding different research perspectives
Money & Business

Understanding different research perspectives

...attention by the media. Activity 4 Timing: About 15 minutes As the meaning of what is ethical behaviour is often subjective and may have controversial elements, think about the following questions and make some notes: What does ethics in research mean for you? Why is ethical behaviour important for you? Why should ethics matter in research? There is no feedback on this...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Understanding economic inequality
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding economic inequality

...attention to understanding how income inequality is measured. Measurements of inequality are often centred on measures of the spread of incomes across people. One approach often used by economists to consider the spread of incomes is the use of percentiles, deciles or quintiles to divide the population into groups of hundreds, tenths, fifths, respectively in order of...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!
Money & Business

Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!

...attention because failure to address it will impact on the other tasks or routines. The ordering of tasks may be connected to your own work schedule or it may hold up the schedule of others’ work. Urgency (or non-urgency) is an assessment of how quickly a task must be tackled. An important task is something which has more wide-ranging and far-reaching effects than on...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
What do we mean by digital health and social care?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What do we mean by digital health and social care?

...Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). It provided information about research and quality standards on the topic of ADHD and helped patients and the public understand what the research was saying and whether it was of good quality. The use of online social networks like this brought together patients from around the world, the project provided useful information...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Who gets to be a human? Religion in colonial histories and Indigenous resistance
History & The Arts

Who gets to be a human? Religion in colonial histories and Indigenous resistance

...attention to how she presents herself and her homeland, Sápmi, and how she describes joik as a ‘way of remembering.’ Notice also how she discusses Sámi practices being labelled as ‘devil-worship,’ the effects this had on her and her community, and her journey of healing from colonial traumas. Select the answer for Part 1 here Start with watching first part of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
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Languages

Describing language

...attention to the smallest units of meaning: morphemes. You examined these building blocks of words, considered the different characteristics and functions of ‘bound’ and ‘free’ morphemes, and learned how they combine to make longer words. Armed with this knowledge, you could unpack just some of the ways people use their knowledge of morphemes creatively in...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Beginners’ Spanish: Getting around
Languages

Beginners’ Spanish: Getting around

...attention to the form of the verb, which will change according to whom you are addressing. Grábese en su cinta. Ejemplo (tú) la piscina ¿Sabes dónde está la piscina? (a) (usted) los vestuarios (b) (ustedes) el bar (c) (vosotros, -as) la sauna (d) (tú) el gimnasio Answer (a) ¿Sabe dónde están los vestuarios? (b) ¿Saben dónde está el bar? (c) ¿Sabéis dónde...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs