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Life in the Palaeozoic
Nature & Environment

Life in the Palaeozoic

...simple-branching stem. (b) One of the earliest known land animals - a spider-like creature (4 mm long including legs) from Silurian rocks in Shropshire, England...Life in the Palaeozoic: 4.1 Trilobites - As we've seen, the Cambrian explosion left the seas teeming with a huge variety of animals. In the following activity you will study some of the marine life at one...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Advanced Spanish: Language in context
Languages

Advanced Spanish: Language in context

...simples y superficiales, pero también es posible que por su edad no sean capaces de apreciar la riqueza que puedan tener esas formas de expresión. Es una riqueza de otro tipo, que… que a lo mejor radica en un mayor dinamismo, tal vez más expresividad, y sobre todo más interactividad ¿no? Eh… Y en cambio se pierde un poco la elegancia, los matices, y digamos el...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Companies and financial accounting
Money & Business

Companies and financial accounting

...simple to set up A sole trader has unlimited liability for the debts and torts of the business A sole trader is entitled to all the profits of the business (subject to paying VAT and personal income tax) A sole trader has complete responsibility for the business and, unless they have employees who keep the business open, will not be paid when closed due to illness,...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...simple, isolated errors but complex failures with social, technical and political dimensions, with multiple and sometimes conflicting perspectives about what the nature of the problem and its possible solutions. Systemic failure often happens as a result of inaction as established ways of thinking and acting become unsuitable in rapidly changing world. Change that is...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Introduction to computational thinking
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to computational thinking

...simple example, you can probably figure this out in your head, right, but suppose you had 76 residues? You couldn’t even write that out on a piece of paper! There is actually where the scale of computers come in handy because they can do that sort of calculation, no problem. So in fact they show that you can use this modelling checking technique to explore state spaces...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
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Education & Development

Young children, the outdoors and nature

...simple machine, my lab and others have done dozens of studies showing just how good babies are at learning about the world. Let me mention just one that we did with Tamar Kushnir, my student. If I showed you this detector, you would be likely to think to begin with that the way to make the detector go would be to put a block on top of the detector. But actually this...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
The ethics of cultural heritage
History & The Arts

The ethics of cultural heritage

...simple and can be used as a reply to the cost-effectiveness and humanitarian arguments. It goes as follows. In the long term, the project of restoring Notre-Dame will pay for itself. Through various economic factors, rebuilding Notre-Dame will bring in more income for France than it would cost to carry out. Therefore, it cannot fail to be a cost-effective way of spending...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
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Education & Development

Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing

...simple self-care techniques, including the importance of rest, time spent with friends and family and the benefits of hobbies and interests isolation and loneliness can affect children and that it is very important for children to discuss their feelings with an adult and seek support that bullying (including cyberbullying) has a negative and often lasting impact on mental...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs