1,099 search results

Basic science: understanding numbers
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding numbers

...Adults can use their own OpenLearn account to supervise under 13s on the course, and assisting with the experiments. You can read more in the OpenLearn FAQs...Week 1: Why does science need numbers?: 1.1 Water, water everywhere - NARRATOR 1 Bottled water is ubiquitous in our daily lives. Every year in the UK, we each consume some 70 litres of purchased bottled water,...
Returning to STEM Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Returning to STEM

...adults looks after a relative or friend who cannot manage without help because of sickness, age or disability. Being a carer can be an isolating experience. If you’re in this position you can get advice and support from The Carers UK website, which has lively forums featuring contributions from people experiencing similar hurdles. Many of the problems and solutions that...
Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Take your teaching online Badge icon
Education & Development

Take your teaching online

...Adult Learning, New York, NY, Macmillan. Vygotsky, L.S. (1986) Thought and Language (trans. from Russian and revised and edited by A. Kozulin), Cambridge, MA, MIT Press. Wenger, E. (1998) Communities of Practice: learning, meaning and identity, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Arbour, M., Kaspar, R.W. and Teall, A.M. (2015) ‘Strategies to Promote Cultural...
Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Gweithio hybrid: cynllunio ar gyfer y dyfodol
Money & Business

Gweithio hybrid: cynllunio ar gyfer y dyfodol

...de gyda'n cydweithwyr? Ble mae ein dallbwynt newydd? Ac mae yna bethau y mae angen i ni eu dad-ddysgu-- dad-ddysgu o'r cyfnod cyn y pandemig a hyd yn oed o'r cyfnod y mae COVID-19 wedi effeithio arno? Felly i mi, yr her yw nad ydw i am greu dallbwyntiau newydd drwy awgrymu'r elfennau ansicr y dylai pobl roi sylw iddynt, ond dweud ar gyfer pob un ohonom, y bydd pethau nad...
AI fluency
Digital & Computing

AI fluency

...adult learners on how to effectively network in their industry, with a focus on digital platforms.’ Breaking down the example. Instruction: ‘Create a comprehensive, professional guide’. Context: ‘for adult learners on how to effectively network in their industry, with a focus on digital platforms’ Step 3: Submitting the Prompt. After crafting your prompt, submit...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
What is Europe?
Society, Politics & Law

What is Europe?

...adult was at least seventy by the end of the century and war, if not organised violence more generally, was a personal experience only for a very small minority of contemporary Europeans. There were clearly different conceptions of Europe and the association it now formed among the different countries of Europe, and differing levels of commitment to the European idea...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows
Nature & Environment

Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows

...adult, there are more organisms to produce young in the next generation, who produce more young in the next, and so on. This leads to a population explosion. Economic growth is supposed to work the same way – increased wealth this year allows us to spend and invest to produce more wealth next year, with this continuing year after year. Of course, the sound from the...
Changing cities
Society, Politics & Law

Changing cities

...and case studies - [Described image] Figure 6 The exemplary city: damage to the Hôtel de Ville, Paris, in 1871, following the collapse of the Paris Commune. Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Paris is a basic reference point for modern urban theory There is a clear relationship between causal generalisation and the use of empirical case studies underlying Harvey’s explanatory narrative. The explanatory analysis ......
Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs