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Introducing mammals
Nature & Environment

Introducing mammals

...class) called the Mammalia. This free course, Introducing mammals, offers a starting point for the study of mammals. It will establish their rich diversity, while highlighting the common features that define the group...Mammals come in a bewildering variety of shapes and sizes, and yet all species have some characteristics in common. These similarities justify the...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Innovation in policing
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation in policing

...de Geus that said once that the only sustainable competitive advantage is to learn quicker than your opposition. So certainly in that context, I think there’s a challenge to policing to make sure that we do that. I think innovation is also fundamentally about making sure that we get the best from our single biggest resource, and that’s our people. I would say still,...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Teaching secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Teaching secondary modern foreign languages

...class mode, which can make the pace monotonous often means that the teacher is giving the students information that they could find out for themselves, thus making them less active and autonomous if the teacher takes the dominant role in classroom discourse, the students’ role is only that of respondent – opportunities for developing speaking skills or spontaneous...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Introducing Virgil’s Aeneid
History & The Arts

Introducing Virgil’s Aeneid

...De Agostini Editore/L Pedicini Activity 3 I’d now like you to read the poem’s last lines, which you can find by going to the section on Virgil’s Aeneid on the ‘Poetry in Translation’ website. You can find the relevant passage in Book 12 of the poem by clicking on the link ‘Bk XII:887–952 The Death of Turnus’. Read this passage carefully and make some notes...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Religious diversity: rethinking religion
History & The Arts

Religious diversity: rethinking religion

...for reflecting on patriotic sacrifice. The role of Christian belief and worship is de-emphasised in comparison to St Paul’s own presentation of its purpose. The testimony of the veterans and their families emphasises the importance of these public acknowledgements of loss and sacrifice for the nation. Activity 6 Read the article ‘Occupy Protesters Chain Themselves to St Paul’s Pulpit’ which featured on the Guardian ......
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change
Education & Development

Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change

...class, gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality and socio-economic background. The values underpinning inclusive leadership also sit in contrast to the single, hero model of leadership. They are rooted in collaborative notions that seek to include those often left out of leadership-related activities. They seek to have greater influence than is associated with individual...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
English in the world today
Languages

English in the world today

...de vivre when speaking English – in both cases invoking images of French culture to enhance the meaning of what is being communicated. Other loanwords, however, become completely naturalised, until speakers of the language no longer notice their ‘foreignness’ at all. Below is a short selection of words of foreign origin which are in use in modern-day English. As you...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Seeing institutions in different ways
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing institutions in different ways

...classes in the school, the different ways in which teaching takes place in different classes. With the institutional lens, you might be looking at the wider ‘rules’ which, for example, require schools to arrange classes by age or by ability. With the organisational lens, in the case of your agency, you might be looking at, say, your work on a poverty reduction...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs