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Teaching secondary mathematics
Education & Development

Teaching secondary mathematics

...Adults regularly use aspects of logical thinking in their organisation and decision making processes, doing mathematics can develop cognitive ‘muscles’ such as proportional reasoning, pattern-spotting and visualisation. Mathematics lessons have the potential to teach learners how to think, preparing them not only for specific everyday contexts or commonplace careers,...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Icarus: entering the world of myth
History & The Arts

Icarus: entering the world of myth

...adult reader is unlikely to ‘just read’ Ovid for the stories but will rapidly become engrossed in interpreting their motifs, themes and mixed messages. This is not to suggest that Ovid is producing a theory or theories of myth but he is clearly manipulating myths to yield their full potential as cultural, social and ideological barometers...Icarus: entering the world...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Difference and challenge in teams
Money & Business

Difference and challenge in teams

...adults, but I wish they’d act that way. Some days it’s like they’re fighting in a school playground. I don’t know if they expect me to be their headteacher, but it’s not something I’m comfortable with. Previous attempts to talk to any of them about this have wound them up further. That said, I’ve got to do something; it can’t go on like this – it seems...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Assessing contemporary science
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing contemporary science

...care about the assessment of contemporary science? In our view, the main reason you should care is because science has the potential to change our lives, and those of future generations. As citizens, we need to keep abreast of the changes in scientific knowledge so we can have a say in how it can, and should, be applied in wider society (Holliman et al., 2009). To do...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Introduction to finite element analysis
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to finite element analysis

...care. For example, it is possible to integrate a system with computer-aided design software, leading to a type of uninformed push-button analysis in the design process. Unfortunately, colossal errors can be made at the push of a button, as this warning makes clear. Using FEA: a word of warning Introduction FEA is an extremely potent engineering design utility, but one...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Sure, I know how to talk to people!
Money & Business

Sure, I know how to talk to people!

...care of the cat. Because I'm happy to do it. But I don't want to double up if someone else is doing it. Don't want to step on any toes. MAN: What, you want me to ask around? WOMAN: Yeah. MAN: Well, I'll tell you what. WOMAN: Yeah? MAN: I do know her neighbour. I think her name is Betty. Yeah, well, I'll tell you what then. I'll get a hold of Betty or I'll get my missus to...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Tim Scoones - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Tim Scoones - Earth in Vision

...careful of are the rights of the country that you’ve just made a film about, one of the problems is it’s very complex these days; no one broadcaster owns all the rights, they’re all co-productions, they’re very, very complicated deals, and all you need is one co-producer not to agree to it and then you’ve had it. I think a lot of the deal making is done away...
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Video 40 mins
Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective
History & The Arts

Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective

...care?’ (quoted by Farrell, 1993, p. 33). Naturally in the early days gramophone machines were a luxury that only the elite could afford, yet the fact that they did have an impact around the world can be seen from comments such as that of Ravi Shankar: I had a pleasing voice and my family often asked me to sing some [Bengali] songs when we had guests at home. … Soon, I...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs