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Climate change: transitions to sustainability
Nature & Environment

Climate change: transitions to sustainability

...care and compassion to strangers, both human and non-human – not just in the present, but also those distant in space and time (Dobson, 2000). These virtues of care and compassion are experienced, nurtured and taught not in public spaces – the established domain of citizenship – but in the private sphere (in other words, the family and the home). Do these features...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
The First World War: trauma and memory
History & The Arts

The First World War: trauma and memory

...adult. A daily menu might have consisted of swede soup for breakfast, swede ‘chops’ for lunch, and swede cake for dinner. Even coffee was made of dried ground swedes or turnips. A note on terminology – the German term for the root vegetable consumed in huge quantities is ‘Steckrübe’. This is a yellow root vegetable and in the UK more commonly known as a swede,...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Getting started with French 1
Languages

Getting started with French 1

...careful attention to the sound. You can look at the words at the same time, if that is helpful, by clicking on ‘Transcript’. 1 Salut ! 2 Bonjour ! 3 journée 4 tu 5 vous 6 tout ‘u’ and ‘ou’sounds appear very frequently in French. It is important to be able to make the distinction between them, in both listening and speaking. You have just been listening to...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Race, ethnicity and crime
Society, Politics & Law

Race, ethnicity and crime

...adult prison population is Aboriginal. Furthermore, Aboriginal young people represent 4 per cent of the Western Australian population, yet make up around 80 per cent of all youths in detention (Hughes, 2009, p. 125). Policy interventions tend to remain focused on cultural explanations – that is, ‘the Aboriginal problem’ – for this over-representation. In this...
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Level 3: Advanced 1 hr
Technology, innovation and management
Money & Business

Technology, innovation and management

...cares about innovation. We’re in T5. At the other end of this terminal, you could hop in a driverless vehicle that’ll take you to the business car park. That’s a specific innovation that happened from my company over the last few years. It’s a really great bit of technology. It works well. I don’t know if you’ve tried it. Give it a go. But yes, we do need to...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Teaching secondary music
Education & Development

Teaching secondary music

...adults (often professional musicians and musicians working in the community) take place in venues such as youth clubs. It is important to note that these are not unstructured or unplanned sessions – the difference lies in the way the music educators who lead them tend to come to the session not with fixed ideas about what is to be learned and how learning will be...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Managing my investments
Money & Business

Managing my investments

...careful. Figure 11 Peer-to-peer lending and crowdfunding have emerged in recent years This market has grown because beleaguered savers who have seen returns on their accounts fall to miserly levels in recent years, and to levels below the rate of price inflation, are being increasingly tempted by peer-to-peer (P2P) lending. However, it must be stressed that these are...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Strategic planning for online learning
Education & Development

Strategic planning for online learning

...adult. Home learning can range from reading a book, completing a research project about a specific subject, or completing practice examination questions. * Mobile learning Learning is supported through the use of mobile devices, which can be used almost anywhere (e.g. workplace, fieldwork, home study), are often faster to connect, and have features such as built-in camera...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs