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Understanding dyslexia Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding dyslexia

...central role in our emotional experiences, memory formation, and our fight-or-flight responses. The amygdala was once essential for survival, but fear can freeze learning and reduce memory. Many dyslexic students experience fear in the classroom, lecture hall or seminar room, so creating an empathetic environment, and putting the learner at the centre of teaching, will...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing Badge icon
Education & Development

Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing

...Central and South America attempt to cross the border into the USA seeking a better life. However, US immigration policy is not currently working in a child-friendly way; in fact, the policy is violating children’s rights. But it is not just the US that is ‘managing’ their ‘border crises’ in this manner. European countries are also managing this badly, and the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Understanding antibiotic resistance Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding antibiotic resistance

...central dogma to explain how genetic information, encoded in DNA, can be converted into a functional product, a protein. The following short video gives an overview of this central dogma. Note that the conversion of information, encoded in DNA, into a protein occurs via an intermediate molecule called RNA (ribonucleic acid). NARRATOR: To make a particular protein in the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Exploring languages and cultures
Languages

Exploring languages and cultures

...central advantage of English as a lingua franca, from the non-native speaker perspective, is that it is the language of the domains they are discussing. There are, however, three disadvantages mentioned from a non-native viewpoint, disadvantages that could be applicable to any language in which a speaker does not have native-like fluency: it can be tiring, requiring high...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
Principles and practices of peace education
Education & Development

Principles and practices of peace education

...central nervous system, nerves that control your legs and your arms and your facial muscles, how you smile, and controls everything from the basic brain areas that keep you breathing and your heart beating to the very high levels that allow you to think and work out problems and look before you leap. The Glasgow Science Centre’s has got a wonderful sculpture of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Eutrophication
Nature & Environment

Eutrophication

...Central Highlands of Scotland, which are also areas of very high deposition of nitrogenous air pollutants. Snow is a very efficient scavenger of atmospheric pollution and melting snowbeds release their pollution load at high concentrations in episodes known as ‘acid flushes’. The flush of nitrogen is received by the underlying vegetation when it has been exposed...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Metals in medicine
Science, Maths & Technology

Metals in medicine

...Central. This file is licensed under a Creative Commons CC 2.0 license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ 227754: Figure 16: Professor Barnett Rosenberg 228311: Figure 19: Jmol: an open-source Java viewer for chemical structures in 3D. http://www.jmol.org/ 228316: Figure 20: Jmol: an open-source Java viewer for chemical structures in 3D. http://www.jmol.org/...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Introduction to Planetary Protection
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to Planetary Protection

...central tenet of the interdisciplinary science of astrobiology. Although there are programmes searching for advanced, intelligent life, for example SETI – the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence – this is largely focused outside our own Solar System. In this section, and this wider course, we are considering the search for life as investigated by exploring our...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs