1,764 search results

Innovation in health and social care practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Innovation in health and social care practice

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Images Course image: © Pop Nukoonrat/Dreamstime.com Section 1 figure: ©...
Assistive technologies and online learning
Education & Development

Assistive technologies and online learning

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this course: Images Course image: Vladgrin/Shutterstock.com Video TechDis Essentials video used...
John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
History & The Arts

John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

...writing’, he asserts. This affectionate but crude caricature testifies to Webster’s reputation for writing dark and violent plays. Yet it also testifies to the enduring popularity of those plays. Shakespeare had many gifted colleagues in the play-writing business, but only two – Webster and Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) – are graced with roles in this...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
History & The Arts

Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

...writing in 1633, described him as ‘the best of poets in that age’ (Cheney, 2004, p. 3). Given such spectacular biographical material, it's not surprising that Marlowe the man has always been as famous as Marlowe the writer. Moreover, the correlations between the work and the life (both the facts and the gossip) are undeniably striking: all of Marlowe's dramatic...
Studying mammals: A winning design
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: A winning design

...write down an answer to the question, in note form at least, and then compare it with the one given. Mammals come in a bewildering variety of shapes and sizes and yet all of the 4700 or so species have some characteristics in common. Indeed, it's the existence of these common features that justifies the inclusion of all such diverse types within the single taxonomic group...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Listening for form in popular music
History & The Arts

Listening for form in popular music

...write down the track time at the beginning of each verse (use the format 00:00), as well as a few words from the beginning of each verse. Discussion There are at least two ways to perceive the verses. One is to hear five verses, as shown in Table 2. Table 2 Five-verse model of ‘Midnight Special’ TRACK TIME LYRICS 00:21 Yonder come Miss Rosie ... 01:01 When you get up...
Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows
Nature & Environment

Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows

...writing a series of poems. His ‘one poem in many voices’ The Farewell Glacier sought to give a voice to people, places and other animals and things related to the region. Listen to Nick reading two extracts from The Farewell Glacier, related to themes of the first two sections of this course. The first is about Wally Herbert (1934–2007), the British polar explorer,...
Intermediate German: Understanding spoken German
Languages

Intermediate German: Understanding spoken German

...Writing about yourself - Here you will use some of the things Henning Haarhaus said about himself, to talk and write about yourself. Activity 4 Here is a small section of the transcript, with gaps for you to write your own answers, describing yourself and your own life. You can adapt the style as you like, but this shows how listening to what someone else says, can offer...