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Discovering music: the blues
History & The Arts

Discovering music: the blues

...system. Capital punishment was a reality in the USA at this time, and black people were discriminated against. While the lyrics don’t mention the crime, the death sentence is indicated by the reference to the gallows (‘gallis’) and the audience of the time would have been well aware of the categories of wrongdoing that would be punishable by death. This is typical...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Language in professional life
Languages

Language in professional life

...Systemic Functional Congress, Sydney, pp. 147–52. Simmons, J. (2006) The Invisible Grail: How Brands can use Words to Engage with Audiences, London, Cyan Communications Limited. Swaminathan, V., Sorescu, A., Steenkamp, J.-B. E. M., O’Guinn, T. C. G. and Schmitt, B. (2020) ‘Branding in a hyperconnected world: refocusing theories and rethinking boundaries, Journal of...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...systems not directly controlled by individual consumers. But from an individual’s or householder’s perspective, all home energy use, including electricity, and all transport, including travel by public transport and air, may more logically be viewed as emissions arising directly from their actions. Meanwhile emissions from the production and supply of food and all...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?
Education & Development

Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?

...system of shelves. These are the “control” mice used by Christakis and neuroscientist Nino Ramirez, and their team, trying to understand the impact on young brains of being exposed to fast-paced media. Across the corridor an experiment is underway. One of the mouse containers is surrounded by bright lights and speakers. For 42 days, six hours every day, baby mice are...
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Language of Poverty
Society, Politics & Law

Language of Poverty

...system which we live in, where unemployment is a structural part of that economic system. And it is that issue of having common shared interests which are in collision with the interests of another class. So if you are working class then, as I say, or you work for somebody else for a living, it is in your interest to have higher wages, better conditions at work, you rely...
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Teachers sharing resources online
Education & Development

Teachers sharing resources online

...system and they also have options to comment as well. A lot of the feedback personally I’ve got is: ‘Wow that was a big help, it was a big time saver, I was really struggling with this, thank you so much’ and its similar feedback that I’ve given to other people. It’s also nice to hear feedback from people saying ‘the children loved this, it worked really well...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Creating open educational resources
Education & Development

Creating open educational resources

...Systems Committee Question 4 OCWC Answer OpenCourseWare Consortium Question 5 VLE Answer Virtual learning environment Question 6 VUSSC Answer Virtual University for Small States of the Commonwealth Question 7 OERu Answer Open educational resources university Question 8 Jorum Answer A repository of learning and teaching materials, but not an acronym. The word ‘jorum’...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change

...system where you prepare for the eventual day when an asteroid is on a collision course, but that would be extremely expensive and no government is willing to spend that much money on that. RH: So around that sort of time I met John Houghton, who went on to become Head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Science Working Group and he was also struggling with...
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