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Understanding language and learning
Languages

Understanding language and learning

...2 Learning language and learning about the world - In this section, we are going to develop the argument that when we first learn to use language as infants we transform our understanding of language and of the world in general. In other words, we learn to use language, and through using language, we learn. This mutual reinforcement between learning language and learning...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Technology, innovation and management
Money & Business

Technology, innovation and management

...2 What is innovation? - As we noted in the introduction, Joseph Schumpeter, a seminal thinker on innovation and economics, argued that capitalism is fundamentally a system of change; capitalism is incapable of remaining static (Schumpeter, 1934). He describes the ‘perennial gales’ of ‘creative destruction’ unleashed by innovation. In 1912 Schumpeter made an early...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Particle physics
Science, Maths & Technology

Particle physics

...2 Leptons - As it stands, the smallest known building blocks of matter showing no evidence of comprising of smaller or simpler constituents can be divided into two groups: leptons and quarks. First, let us tackle the former. There are six varieties of leptons. Perhaps the most familiar of these being electrons open e super minus close and electron neutrinos open nu sub e...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Learning to teach: making sense of learning to teach
Education & Development

Learning to teach: making sense of learning to teach

...2: Compare views of ITE Timing: Time: 15 minutes Compare Zeichner’s and Taylor’s models. In what ways do the categories align or differ from each other? Discussion Zeichner’s and Taylor’s research reveals some common themes in thinking about the underpinning philosophy of ITE courses. Both make a distinction between the ‘transmission’ of knowledge and skills...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Approaching poetry
History & The Arts

Approaching poetry

...2 study in Arts and Humanities...Approaching poetry: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate an awareness of the role analysis plays in informing appreciation and understanding of poetry identify and discuss the main analytical concepts used in analysing poetry...Approaching poetry: 1 Approaching poetry - What is the point of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Fire ecology
Science, Maths & Technology

Fire ecology

...2 The locations of actively burning fires around the world (Please note this video has no audio.) The map shows the locations of actively burning fires around the world on a monthly basis, based on observations from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite. The colours are based on a count of the number (not size) of fires...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Equity – law and idea
Society, Politics & Law

Equity – law and idea

...2) As with the law, equitable ideas often concern private property and how, for example, it is held (possessed, owned), used and (re)distributed in capitalist societies...Equity – law and idea: 1.1 The foundations of equity - There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in our philosophy. (Shakespeare, 1603) Following this famous quote from...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
An introduction to death, dying and grief
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to death, dying and grief

...2, you will examine the meaning of a ‘good death’ and how this principally applies in the West. In Section 3, you will learn about assisted dying and will consider the different sides of the assisted dying debate. In Section 4, you will briefly be introduced to ethics and ethical dilemmas in practice. In the final section, you will explore grief and the expression of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs