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The frozen planet
Nature & Environment

The frozen planet

...write down your initial thoughts about the polar regions without doing any research. So please jot down your responses to the following questions, answering first for the Arctic, and then the Antarctic. a.What three images or impressions come to mind? b.What three words, phrases or names do you first think of? c.What is the last news story you remember about each region?...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs
An introduction to leadership for school governors (Wales)
Education & Development

An introduction to leadership for school governors (Wales)

...write some personal observations in text boxes. You can download all the comments you capture in the course by using 'download answers' which appears when you first save a comment in the course. Completing the text boxes is an essential part of this course to demonstrate your active participation – but because situations vary from school to school, answers will vary,...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Exploring critical social work practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring critical social work practice

...writing learning materials and activities, designing assessments and evaluating the content. Note down some of the ways people with loved experience of social work could meaningfully be involved in this. As you do this, you could also consider the following questions: What knowledge or insight might they bring? How might their involvement influence what students learn?...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Galaxies, stars and planets
Science, Maths & Technology

Galaxies, stars and planets

...write down your answer, in note form at least, before reading the answer in the text. The light from other galaxies can take many millions or even billions of years to reach us. This means that more distant galaxies can be seen as they were billions of years ago. More powerful telescopes, that allow us to see ever more distant objects, allow us to effectively observe...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Systems diagramming
Digital & Computing

Systems diagramming

...Write down what they represent to you. Say what you use them for. DiscussionHere are my responses The first thing I had to hand was a ‘do it yourself’ (DIY) manual (being used a lot because I have just moved into a new house). This was full of diagrams of bits of rooms, fixtures, fittings, tools and other equipment that I might want to build or use myself around the...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Women transforming classical music
History & The Arts

Women transforming classical music

...write your answers in the text box below. How many works by women composers do you regularly perform/does your organisation regularly perform? How aware are you of women composers? How many can you name? How many of their compositions do you know/regularly listen to? Discussion There are no right or wrong answers here, and your responses will be very personal to you. You...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Teaching secondary music
Education & Development

Teaching secondary music

...writing this course I looked at key ideas and concepts that secondary music teachers at the beginning of their careers should know about. These include what is meant by musical knowledge, what there is to teach and learn in music and the different ways in which young people are taught and learn musically. It concludes by proposing key principles to underpin a musical...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Composition and improvisation in cross-cultural perspective
History & The Arts

Composition and improvisation in cross-cultural perspective

...writes music down, taking his/her time, sketching and revising until the music is as near perfect as it can be. The improviser creates music instantly, without sketches or corrections. In the words of Willi Apel, an earlier dictionary editor, improvisation is ‘the art of performing music as an immediate reproduction of simultaneous mental processes, that is, without the...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs