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Exploring innovative assessment methods
Education & Development

Exploring innovative assessment methods

...health and safety in an environment in which they may be working. They may also be required to demonstrate key skills such as their ability to interpret numerical information or use technology to access information sources. In order to understand how your idea for assessment can be integrated into the curriculum you must consider the learning outcomes that you’re trying...
Accessibility of eLearning
Education & Development

Accessibility of eLearning

...health conditions such as cancer, bipolar disorder or arthritis. [Described image] Figure 2 We are a diverse population Disabled people were among the early adopters of personal computers. They were quick to appreciate that word processing programs and printers gave them freedom from dependence on others to read and write for them. Similarly, although smaller devices like...
Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Goya
History & The Arts

Goya

...health. 1797 (November) Godoy forms new government including reformists such as Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos and Meléndez Valdés. 1798 Goya is now dependent on sign language as a means of communication. 1799 Goya's Los Caprichos, based on drawings made in the preceding two years, are published. They are placed on sale in a perfume shop but quickly withdrawn. This has...
Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Creating open educational resources
Education & Development

Creating open educational resources

...health service. If a nurse can access it immediately on the ward, rather than having to do it through other particular mechanisms, is that better? They can openly get to it by whatever means. Don’t have any specific log-ins or whatever. There are pros and cons with all of that, but you have to think about it. OER are what people make them ‘What OER can do for...
Approaching poetry
History & The Arts

Approaching poetry

...mentally re-writing the line as ‘a chance to meet new people’. (‘People’ rather than ‘folk’ would be more usual usage for me, but, as with the Pope example, this would mean that the rhythm too would be lost.)...Approaching poetry: 7 Poems that don't rhyme - Are poems that don't rhyme prose? Not necessarily. Virginia Woolf (1882–1941), a novelist rather than...
Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Science and society: A career and professional development course
Education & Development

Science and society: A career and professional development course

...health sciences, and more recently to a range of projects concerned with contemporary science issues and on the relationships between science and different publics, at both undergraduate and Masters level. He co-edited Science Today; problem or crisis (with Ralph Levinson) and The Science Good Study Guide, and (with Richard Holliman) co-edited a special issue of the...
Evolution through natural selection
Nature & Environment

Evolution through natural selection

...health and working on a wide variety of biological problems, as the rest of the world struggled to come to terms with the implications of evolution. [Figure 1] Figure 1 Charles Darwin (1809-1882) The word 'evolution' means 'change over time' and it can be used in relation to anything that has a history; thus, we could describe the evolution of the motor car or of...
Microbes – friend or foe?
Nature & Environment

Microbes – friend or foe?

...health sciences and environmental sciences understand the contribution that microbiology can make to informed debate on medical and environmental issues make sense of information presented in different ways, including textual, numerical and graphical material...Microbes – friend or foe?: 1 Disease-causing bacteria - Surprisingly, many bacteria that cause disease are...
Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs