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Learning to teach: mentoring and tutoring student teachers
Education & Development

Learning to teach: mentoring and tutoring student teachers

...based within school contexts. The aim of this course is to highlight how student teachers benefit from the involvement of two professionals with distinct, but different, roles. Supporting beginner teachers, whether as a mentor or a tutor, can be a professionally rewarding experience, despite the time and energy involved. It provides opportunities to share good practice,...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace
Education & Development

An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace

...based on offers a foundation for this lifelong learning effort. The taster course examines three aspects that are highly relevant to intercultural competence: culture, communication, and identity. These three terms are used frequently by us in our everyday lives, but their meanings can seem ambiguous and broad. Have you for instance considered that equating culture with...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Does counting calories work?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Does counting calories work?

...based in Illinois. She understands the science of weight loss, but, like Nash, doesn’t see it translate into practice. “It makes sense from a mathematical and scientific and even visceral level that what you put in and what you take out, measured in the discrete unit of the calorie, should balance,” says Haelle. “But it doesn’t seem to work that way.” Nash and...
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Video 5 mins
Am I ready to be an apprentice distance learner?
Education & Development

Am I ready to be an apprentice distance learner?

...based learning module side by side. Looking ahead and planning your time is the first step to effective time management. The study planner on your student home page directs you to the learning materials for each week or group of weeks and tells you what you should be doing and when. You will gain access to your student home page once you are enrolled on the programme....
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
The Roman Empire: introducing some key terms
History & The Arts

The Roman Empire: introducing some key terms

...Based on Boardman, J., Griffin, J. and Murray, O. (eds) (1996) The Roman World, Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 126–7; by permission of Oxford University Press) (PDF, 1 pages, 1.8MB) I will now explore some aspects of this so that you can see more clearly what was at stake in terms of ‘empire’. A key to this is the Roman concept of imperium...The Roman Empire:...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
Why the bands played on: Live music in the shadow of the Paris attacks
History & The Arts

Why the bands played on: Live music in the shadow of the Paris attacks

...La Bataclan the day after the Paris Attacks] Police activity outside the Bataclan the day after the murders When Zoot Sims was asked what playing with Benny Goodman in 1962 Cold War Russia was like, following a tour beset with official and personal aggravations, he was typically sardonic: “Every gig with Benny is like playing in Russia.” Sims could at least afford a...
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Article 5 mins
Water: Managing the 1% in a climate changing world
Nature & Environment

Water: Managing the 1% in a climate changing world

...Las Vegas, and the Hoover Dam supplying 120 million people. The Oroville dam also reached dangerous highs during extreme rainfall in 2017, forcing evacuation of 180,000 people downstream. But change in understanding and managing the 1% is happening. One of the most innovative ways has been to give rivers legal status. In 2017, New Zealand recognised the Whanganui River as...
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Article 10 mins
Legacy of the Romantics
History & The Arts

Legacy of the Romantics

...La Belle Dame Sans Merci’. Romantics often embraced the macabre, hence the popularity of Gothic novels. There was also keen interest in scientific discoveries and developments. In particular, Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ has endured and it has been argued that this pioneering text paved the way for science-fiction. Literature was not the only art form to be...
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Article 10 mins