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Recording music and sound
History & The Arts

Recording music and sound

...economical price. Secret work on tape recorders was undertaken by the Germans throughout the Second World War. Soon tape recorders were in use by the American radio networks for pre-recording their broadcasts, the entertainer Bing Crosby being one of the greatest proponents of the technology. Recording companies were also quick to embrace the benefits of tape –...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Doug Allan - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Doug Allan - Earth in Vision

...economically. We can’t, not within the system that we’ve got, we need a big, radical change in how we do things and it won’t be easy’. I don’t even know if it can be achieved, but if we don’t achieve it, we’re going over the cliff, I think. How has changing technology affected the way you film? Well, I started on film which was so utterly different, we would...
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Video 35 mins
Section 6: Introduction to Learning Resources on Red Clydeside
Society, Politics & Law

Section 6: Introduction to Learning Resources on Red Clydeside

...Economic & Social History 21 (2): 140. http://libezproxy.open.ac.uk/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=9350492&site=ehost-live&scope=site. (This article discusses the industrial unrest and employment of women in the West of Scotland before the outbreak of World War I. It also considers prejudice against working women; Industrial...
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Article 30 mins
Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages

...economic classes, ethnic groups or gender (Pullin, 1993). Equity issues are particularly important when assessment results are used to label pupils or deny them access to courses or careers in the future...Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages: 2 What should be assessed in MFL learning and how? - Having thought about what is meant by progress in MFL learning,...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past

...economic group and occupation of the reader; the place where the reading occurred, and so on). From these five entries, can you detect any patterns about newspaper reading that this source might illuminate? Comment Here are the five samples I collected: entry one; entry two; entry three; entry four; and entry five (right-click on each link to open it in a new window or...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Can we get to a world without suicide?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can we get to a world without suicide?

...economic case has not brought about more rapid change. “We’re losing so many people who would have gone on to contribute to society,” Mallen says. He wants a new focus on earlier intervention, in schools and homes and GP surgeries, to identify problems before they lead to crisis, and improvements in mental health literacy. “Edward existed in a family, in a...
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Article 15 mins
Assessment in secondary mathematics
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary mathematics

...economic classes, ethnic groups, or gender (Pullin, 1993). Equity issues are particularly important when assessment results are used to label students or deny them access to courses or careers in the future. Cooper (1998) conducted research using the English National Curriculum KS3 test questions, which suggests some potential lack of fairness in testing regimes. It is...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships
Digital & Computing

Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships

...economic studies that illustrate the impacts of invaders and the financial benefits of control are essential to justify the increasingly large-scale funding that the Working for Water Programme requires. By uniting social goals with ecosystem restoration, and by capitalising on public pressure to provide water to millions of people, WWP has mustered political will, public...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs