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Doug Allan - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Doug Allan - Earth in Vision

...got to be the people in power right now. If we brought a kind of warlike mentality to vest, which brings an urgency in the funds, if we contributed just a fraction of what we used to bail out the banks 8 years’ ago, we could crack it. It’s ridiculous, how much did we bail out the banks for? Trillions of dollars, for making the biggest screw-up we’ve ever seen....
Brighton Pavilion
History & The Arts

Brighton Pavilion

...health, leisure and pleasure; notions of technological progress, which drove the Industrial Revolution and were in turn reinforced by it; concepts of public and private and the proper relations between them; ideas of royal authority in the post-Napoleonic era of restoration of hereditary monarchies across Europe; the fashion for Oriental scholarship and the ‘Oriental...
Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Eutrophication
Nature & Environment

Eutrophication

...health problems, due to toxins secreted by the abundant microbes, causing symptoms that range from skin irritations to pneumonia. In oligotrophic systems, even quite small increases in nutrient load can have relatively large impacts on plant and animal communities. [Figure 2.1] Figure 2.1 The pike (Esox lucius), a species of fish that can tolerate eutrophic
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Financial statement analysis and interpretation
Money & Business

Financial statement analysis and interpretation

...health...Financial statement analysis and interpretation: 2 Types of financial statement analyses - There are three main techniques that help users build an opinion about the financial strength and performance of a business: ratio analysis, vertical analysis (also known as common size analysis) and horizontal analysis. [Described image] Figure 4 There are three different...
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...