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Money & Business

Working in teams

...class, I was put in a group with Sam and Ahmed, and we met in a café later that day. In a sense there were three parts to this team exercise and to be honest each of them came with their own issues. The first thing we had to do was to put together a list of questions we would ask people. We had a lot of disagreement over this as Sam was very good at coming up with ideas,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introduction to computational thinking
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to computational thinking

...des images (The Treachery of Images). The part of reality for which one creates a model or representation doesn’t need to be a static object such as a pipe or dictionary. It can also be a process or system which changes over time. In that case, the model will not only have to capture any enduring properties of interest, but also any changes in time that are of interest....
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Exploring books for children: words and pictures
History & The Arts

Exploring books for children: words and pictures

...classes. By the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, much work of high quality was in circulation: this period has been called a golden age for children’s literature. The rise of mass education in Britain – specifically as a result of the 1870 Education Act – also created a growing new market of young readers at that time. Later in the course you will learn...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Successful IT systems
Digital & Computing

Successful IT systems

...classes: Primary stakeholders − people who will actually use the system – the end-users. Secondary stakeholders − people who do not directly use the system, but receive output from it or provide input to it (for example, someone who receives a report produced by the system). Tertiary stakeholders − people who do not fall into either of the first two categories but...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Assessing risk in engineering, work and life
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing risk in engineering, work and life

...classed as ‘could occur but is not common’ (ranking of 3). This gives a risk rating of between 2 × 5 = 10 and 3 × 5 = 15. Taking the prudent approach, a rating of 15 means that the activity should not take place. In the short term, use of the vessel should cease while measures are put in place. This could involve relocating the system outside the building or in an...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft
History & The Arts

Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft

...class knows of in his times. [Ralph Waldo Emerson] Ralph Waldo Emerson The Genius of our life is jealous of individuals, and will not have any individual great, except through the general. There is no choice to genius. A great man does not wake up on some fine morning, and say, "I am full of life, I will go to sea, and find an Antarctic continent: to-day I will square the...
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Article 15 mins
School geography: Exploring a definition
Education & Development

School geography: Exploring a definition

...class discussion can be held, guided by questions such as: Who emigrated from Ireland? Who stayed? Analyse this differentiation. For what reasons did the brothers emigrate? How did migration benefit BOTH the place of origin and the place of destination of the migrant? Who returned? Why? There is a need to open out the discussion. For homework it would be fun – and very...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)
Education & Development

Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)

...class at a local further education college. This is what happened when Penny decided that she wanted to join the full-time catering course in the ordinary college: ‘I went to see my tutor about the course but he doesn’t want me to do it. He wants me to go on a course that’s only one day a week. It’s all people from the special school. That’s not what I want to...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs