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Strategic planning for online learning
Education & Development

Strategic planning for online learning

...adult. Home learning can range from reading a book, completing a research project about a specific subject, or completing practice examination questions. * Mobile learning Learning is supported through the use of mobile devices, which can be used almost anywhere (e.g. workplace, fieldwork, home study), are often faster to connect, and have features such as built-in camera...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Studying mammals: The opportunists
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The opportunists

...adult size, and need to grow quickly if they are to withstand the rigours of the following winter. Lactation requires a high level of metabolism. Whatever the reason, or combination of reasons, there is much to learn from the grizzly about this type of hibernation. But you'll appreciate that it takes a particularly intrepid biologist to enter the den of a responsive,...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Getting started with French 1
Languages

Getting started with French 1

...adults, between themselves, will more naturally use the tu form from the outset. There are no hard and fast rules as it also depends on the setting, the person you’re talking to and how formal you prefer to be. It’s always safer to use vous and wait for the person you’re speaking with to invite you to use tu. Activity 10 Watch these short video clips where people...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Secondary learning
Education & Development

Secondary learning

...adults view the world. (New case study.) David Elkind Where is yours? Where’s mine? Now do we both have the same to drink or does one of us have more? Girl I do. (New case study.) David Elkind But isn’t this higher than this one? I mean, this is up here and this is way down here – doesn’t that make this one more? Girl Well, this one may be taller but this one is...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Political ordering
Society, Politics & Law

Political ordering

...adult citizen alone and ‘a sensible, law-abiding Englishman could pass through life and hardly notice the existence of the state, beyond the post office and the policeman’ (1975, p. 25) (Taylor was writing specifically about England, but what he says applies more generally across the UK). This is certainly no longer the case today. For Taylor, it was the First World...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Two concepts of freedom
History & The Arts

Two concepts of freedom

...adults choose to do in private? When, if ever, is coercion acceptable? Are all laws obstacles to freedom, or are they the very condition of achieving it? Should we sometimes force people to be free, or is that a contradiction in terms? These are serious questions. They're not merely abstract puzzles for philosophers to ponder in comfortable armchairs. They are the sorts...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through

...adults (Ainscow & Sandhill, 2010)...Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through: 1.2 What challenges do we face? - So what challenges do we face in leading ourselves and others to change our ways to be more inclusive? Activity 2: A philosopher’s perspective Timing: 45 minutes Read the following extract from: MacIntyre, A. and Dunne, J., (2002) ‘Alasdair MacIntyre on...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
The body in antiquity
History & The Arts

The body in antiquity

...adult-themed – beware!) insight into this, listen to the audio ‘The art of insult’. (please note that this audio contains language that some students may find offensive) ‘The art of insult’ audio Presenter It’s worth pointing out as we begin that five hundred years ago epithets like the dreaded ‘F’ word, ‘C’ word and the rest were not as unspeakable as...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs