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History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past

...institutions often championed for eliminating ‘ignorance’. Mayhew’s interviews revealed that many costermonger children were taught to read by their parents or siblings. A coster-girl aged 18 explained to Mayhew that her mother had taught the elder children to read: ‘She always liked to hear us read to her whilst she was washing or such like! and then we big ones...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Introducing ICT systems
Digital & Computing

Introducing ICT systems

...institutions containing specific types of information, such as library catalogues, banks' records of customers' accounts, and hospital medical records. Graphics and image editing software allows you to create and edit drawings and images. Digital photography has become very popular and image-editing software allows you to crop and resize your photos, touch-up blemishes...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Exploring books for children: words and pictures
History & The Arts

Exploring books for children: words and pictures

...Institute of Library and Information Professionals, or CILIP, has awarded the Kate Greenaway Medal for ‘distinguished illustration in a children’s book’, alongside the more longstanding Carnegie prize for a work of children’s fiction (inaugurated in 1936). The Greenaway Medal has been awarded to well-known illustrators such as Shirley Hughes, Raymond Briggs,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
What do historians do?
History & The Arts

What do historians do?

...institutional organisation (all quite Victorian!) and it lasted up until the 1960s. Today’s historians try to understand periods of time in the past as valuable to study and understandable for themselves rather than as an explainable stage of our journey to the here and now. The Whig view was a very useful tool for explaining things that were historically quite...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Understanding science: what we cannot know Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding science: what we cannot know

...Institution from United States: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Henri_Poincar%C3%A9_(1854-1912),_Mathematician_(2551042945).jpg Figure 9: The trajectory of a third body interacting with a large mass (Earth, left) and a small mass (Moon, right) from July 19, 2019 by DAVID D. NOLTE: Figure 1 from Getting Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins Home from the Moon:...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Internet of everything
Digital & Computing

Internet of everything

...et cetera-- JIM GRUBB That's right. JOHN T. CHAMBERS And to be able to make decisions at the edge, probably, for the vast majority of interfaces. JIM GRUBB And sometimes for machine-to-machine connections, for example. In the video, Jim Grubb, Cisco's Chief Demonstration Officer, and John Chambers, Cisco’s former CEO, during the Cisco Live 2013 keynote demonstration,...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Geological processes in the British Isles
Science, Maths & Technology

Geological processes in the British Isles

...et al. (1996) ‘Continental break up and collision in the Neoproterozoic and Palaeozoic’, Earth Science Reviews, 40, Elsevier; Figure 3d T.C. Pharaoh (1999) ‘Palaeozoic terranes and their lithospheric boundaries within the Trans-European Suture Zone (TESZ)’, Tectonophysics, 314, Elsevier; Figure 3e J. Golonka and D. Ford (2000) ‘Pangean (Late
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Financial methods in environmental decisions
Nature & Environment

Financial methods in environmental decisions

...et al. (2001) the longer-range dispersion allowed the formation of secondary pollutants such as sulfate and nitrate aerosols and ozone to be covered. The number of receptors affected by the pollutants depends on the height of the discharge and the number of people in the area. This was taken into account by considering three discharge heights (50 m, 90 m and 100 m) and...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs