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Legacy of the Romantics
History & The Arts

Legacy of the Romantics

...La Belle Dame Sans Merci’. Romantics often embraced the macabre, hence the popularity of Gothic novels. There was also keen interest in scientific discoveries and developments. In particular, Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ has endured and it has been argued that this pioneering text paved the way for science-fiction. Literature was not the only art form to be...
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Article 10 mins
The psychology of cybercrime
Health, Sports & Psychology

The psychology of cybercrime

...communicating with everybody. I mean, I use social media obviously. I use Facebook for personal usage, keeping in touch with friends and family that are all across the globe. And obviously, Twitter we use obviously as work purposes. But I think, yeah, constantly, it's the first thing you check when you get up to see what's been going on the night before or, so that sort...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Golden Globe Ocean Race: Global Biodiversity
Nature & Environment

Golden Globe Ocean Race: Global Biodiversity

...communities and individual species. (3) Provisioning functions, such as the production of raw materials that are used for any purpose other than food. (4) Cultural functions, such as the extent and variety of natural landscapes. Humans exploit these ecosystem functions, which have a monetary as well a non-material benefit to society. For example, humans rely on ecosystem...
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Article 20 mins
An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)
Education & Development

An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)

...communicate only by speaking more slowly and loudly until the others understood him. Words like ‘cow’, ‘sheep’ and ‘swine’ come from the English-speaking farmers, while the a la carte versions – ‘beef’, ‘mutton’ and ‘pork’ – come from the French-speaking toffs, beginning a long running trend for restaurants having completely indecipherable...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Leadership challenges in turbulent times
Money & Business

Leadership challenges in turbulent times

...community, the extended family, is where the immediate response will be, so it’s actually looking at that. Video 1 Based on the challenges Amanda Griffith addresses in the video, drag and drop each to the examples which illustrates the particular challenge. Violence in the home Children having to leave home The need to access education or work Children having to leave...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Methods in Motion: What does Open Methodologies mean?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: What does Open Methodologies mean?

...community and organisation matter, but also less pre-determined because these specifics are highly changeable. It can be difficult to think in scales of global economic tides and social values, but the individual, workplace, family or locality is easier to apprehend and to alter. A political aspect of open methodologies is that they approach methods not in terms of grand...
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Article 5 mins
Can you learn a language with an app?
Languages

Can you learn a language with an app?

...communicative approaches to language learning, learners are turning to such apps where they can make mistakes in a private setting. [The Conversation]This non-threatening environment, where errors are only known to the user, can go some way to address the performance anxiety that many learners suffer from when asked to speak a foreign language. In this way then, language...
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Article 10 mins
Could volunteering be bad for our health?
Society, Politics & Law

Could volunteering be bad for our health?

...communities, describing this as a form of citizen participation. In a lively blog piece one of the authors, Mark Gamsu, stated “I think that there is a strong relationship between the number and quality of volunteers and the effectiveness of work to increase participation.” He may be right (and we certainly need more evidence on the relationship between these two sets...
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