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Teaching Spanish pronunciation
Languages

Teaching Spanish pronunciation

...education. The course is divided into 5 weeks...Welcome to this free course on Teaching Spanish pronunciation. This short course is aimed at teachers of Spanish working in the United Kingdom who wish to extend their theoretical knowledge on teaching Spanish pronunciation. It offers ideas and practical skills that can be used in the classroom, be that virtual or...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Questioning crime: social harms and global issues
Society, Politics & Law

Questioning crime: social harms and global issues

...education, healthcare and employment were disproportionately borne by the some of the most vulnerable, including the poor, older people, and also suggesting a gendered impact reflecting gender inequality as well. Furthermore, ethnicity was seen as a particularly significant factor in terms of who was affected (Hartman and Squires, 2006b). Structures of inequality have...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Systems thinking and practice
Digital & Computing

Systems thinking and practice

...education and training. I recall a story (told by a marketing person) about a group of professionals, each given a barometer and asked to find the height of a church tower. The physicist, who remembered that air pressure changes with height, took the barometer reading at the bottom and at the top of the tower to calculate the height. The engineer dropped the barometer and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Myths in law
Society, Politics & Law

Myths in law

...education, would not let women take the exams needed to qualify as a solicitor. In 1914, four women brought a case against the Law Society,Footnote 1 but they lost. The courts ruled that women should continue to be excluded from the profession because that had been accepted practice for centuries. Ethnic minority men were not formally prohibited from becoming lawyers....
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Waste management and environmentalism in China
Nature & Environment

Waste management and environmentalism in China

...education campaigns began to increase the Chinese people’s awareness of environmental issues. Championing biodiversity was a relatively safe topic as it did not directly criticise government and was therefore tolerated. But by the late 1990s, Chinese environmental non-governmental organisations (NGOs) began to be more assertive (Geall, 2013). A successful and energetic...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Revision and examinations
Education & Development

Revision and examinations

...Educated and even random guesses may add a few vital marks to your total. One student said: ‘The problem with the multiple-choice section was that I got really stuck on one of the questions and didn’t manage to complete the section in the time available and the individual questions were not worth enough marks to justify my delay.’ Answering a question in exam...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
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Education & Development

Teaching mathematics

...education at the Open University. It can also be used as Continuing Professional Development by individuals or groups of teachers. The authors have many years’ experience of teaching mathematics in the classroom and in Initial and Continuing Teacher Education...This free course, Teaching mathematics, has been designed for non-specialist mathematics teachers of 8 to 14...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004
History & The Arts

The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004

...education for offenders and media campaigns. British roads might also be safer because more of our drinking now takes place at home. Still, the steady decline in drink-driving fatalities of the last 40 years was temporarily reversed between 1999 and 2004 – a period that closely matches the rapid rise in alcohol consumption that led to Peak Booze. We just don’t know if...
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