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Assessment in secondary geography
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary geography

...simple step-by-step process’ decisions at the school level in terms of assessment policies and teachers’ roles in contextualising expectations to develop assessment criteria that will make sense to students...Assessment in secondary geography: 1.2 Summary - There is no definitive definition of what progress in geography means. Often, progress is assessed in terms of...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Introducing philosophy
History & The Arts

Introducing philosophy

...simple and obviously good thing. How could we not want freedom, and how could it be bad to try to provide more of it for someone? Yet what do we really mean by ‘freedom’? Is there more than one kind of freedom, and, if so, might we sometimes be forced to choose between them? Could people be oppressed in the name of freedom? Consider the following scenario. Country A...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
The use of force in international law
Society, Politics & Law

The use of force in international law

...Code. It is approximately 13 minutes long. Narrator: It’s important to know international humanitarian law, but it’s even more important to obey it and make sure that others obey it as well. In fact, this is a matter of life and death. People have been waging war since time immemorial. When an armed conflict breaks out, the law of the jungle is paramount, and...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction
History & The Arts

Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction

...codes with her device? What does the tone of Knox’s list convey, and what does this tell us about detective fiction and its readers? Do such ‘rules’ alone tell us anything about history and context? Or do they simply relate to formal expectations of the genre? How many of these rules might still usefully apply today? Discussion One possible answer to Question 3: The...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
An introduction to crime and criminology
Society, Politics & Law

An introduction to crime and criminology

...codes or codes of expected public conduct. Only some norm violations are made into crimes, however. For example, graffiti is a crime when it appears without permission on public property. It is not a crime, however, if someone were to decorate the outside of their own home with graffiti-style images (although this may be contested by their neighbours, especially if it led...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Managing my money
Money & Business

Managing my money

...come back to them later. The MAS budget planner is presented in two formats – a simple version and a version with more detail. Both are easy to use and self-explanatory. Go to the MAS budget planner in a new window or tab and choose the version with which you feel most comfortable. Now complete the income part in the budget planner for your household. If you’re in a one-person household, this means completing it for just ......
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
An introduction to exoplanets Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to exoplanets

...simple techniques in 21st century astrophysics, the transit method for detecting and measuring the size of exoplanets. I love this so much that some of the early results prompted me to completely redirect my own research to study exoplanets instead. I wrote a book called Transiting Exoplanets, which was published in 2010. And I’ve used telescopes including the Hubble...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Infection and immunity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Infection and immunity

...simple remedies, or seek advice from a trained health worker...Session 1: Introducing human infectious diseases: 1.3 Acute or chronic conditions - Two useful terms that are equally relevant to infectious and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) refer to the time course of the illness. Knowing how long the symptoms of a disease have persisted and how quickly they are worsening...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs