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Education & Development

Take your teaching online

...careful when using idioms or cultural references in teaching materials (Arbour et al., 2015). You may also need to consider your choice of images so that diversity is fully reflected. Flexibility of schedule Whilst it is vital to provide students with a schedule of key dates and deadlines in the course, and to ensure at regular intervals that they are aware of what is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Cynorthwywyr addysgu: Cymorth ar waith
Education & Development

Cynorthwywyr addysgu: Cymorth ar waith

...Adult helpers in my school” gan Emily (6 oed) Er mwyn deall rôl cynorthwywyr addysgu yn well, mae'n ddefnyddiol ystyried sut mae cynorthwywyr yn fwy cyffredinol yn cefnogi gwahanol fathau o weithwyr proffesiynol. Fel cynorthwywyr addysgu mewn ysgolion, mae rolau tebyg i'w gweld mewn meysydd gwaith eraill hefyd. Er enghraifft, yn y gwasanaeth iechyd, mae nyrsys yn cael...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...careful when looking at GHG emissions data to be clear on units. Emissions are sometimes expressed in tonnes of carbon rather than carbon dioxide or CO2 equivalents (CO2e). This expresses emissions using just the mass of the carbon (C) atom rather than the whole carbon dioxide (CO2) molecule or CO2 and other GHG emissions converted into CO2 equivalents (CO2e). Each...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 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
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
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