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Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM

...English who was looking at how students and faculty think about moments of difficulty in the classroom. She wasn't asking does it work, she wasn't asking what does it look like, she was really theorizing about difficulty, and helping all of us who have moments of difficulty in the classroom think about how to make sense of that. Video 3 Taxonomy of questions Taxonomy of...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Young people and religion: creative learning with history
History & The Arts

Young people and religion: creative learning with history

...English and American history, they may also know nothing about it. For your purposes here, however, that should not be a problem. The commentary on the website provides some essential context, particularly in pointing out that Williams’s ideas were unusual for his time and contrasting them with the then dominant ‘old European’ way of close identification between...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Studying mammals: The insect hunters
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The insect hunters

...everyday language, insectivore means 'insect eater', but in LoM and in this course its meaning is much more precise. Insectivores are insect-eating mammals, classified together on the basis of a reasonably close evolutionary relationship. So, for our purposes, an insectivore is a member of the order Insectivora. But as DA points out (and the photograph on p. 39 very...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Unsolved problems in cosmology
Science, Maths & Technology

Unsolved problems in cosmology

...everyday experience of the world around us leads us to think that a flat spatial geometry is perhaps most ‘natural’, this flatness has historically been understood to present a fine-tuning problem for cosmological theory, known as the flatness problem. It is unclear what physics contrives to ensure the matter and energy content of the Universe at the Planck time was...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
The psychology of cybercrime
Health, Sports & Psychology

The psychology of cybercrime

...Everyday perspectives: engaging online Activity 1 Thinking about cybercrime Timing: Allow 20 minutes Try to answer the following questions about cybercrime, drawing on your experiences and understandings. Type your responses (up to 100 words for each question) in the box below, and then select ‘Save’. Your responses are not published anywhere. 1. Think about how you...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Managing and managing people
Money & Business

Managing and managing people

...everyday stressors understand time pressures and the need for time management...Managing and managing people: 1 What do managers actually do? - In this course we provide a number of views on the nature of management and what managers actually do. Then we look at the kinds of problems and issues that you deal with in your management role: we hope you will see that they...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Challenges in advanced management accounting
Money & Business

Challenges in advanced management accounting

...English by the phrase ‘throwing good money after bad money’. In fact most languages have some equivalent phrase, which probably shows how tempting and widespread this fallacy is! Note that those responsible for previous spending may have a personal incentive to push for further spending to achieve something from a project in order to avoid criticism of their previous...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Network security
Digital & Computing

Network security

...English language, for example, E is the most frequently occurring letter with a probability of about 0.12. This is followed by the letter T (probability 0.06) then A, O, I, N, S and R. Common letter sequences in natural language (e.g. TH, HE, IN, ER and THE, ING, AND and HER) may also be detected in the corresponding ciphertext. These letters and their ordering may differ...
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs