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Picturing the family
History & The Arts

Picturing the family

...business-like constructions. [Micklethwaite's gallery on wheels] Image 79: Photographer/Painter: Anon. Subject: Micklethwaite's gallery on wheels. Some itinerants could afford to invest in horse-drawn caravans which combined living accommodation with glazed studios and darkroom facilities. These vans were moved from venue to venue by horses hired for the journey. The...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Approaching language, literature and childhood
Education & Development

Approaching language, literature and childhood

...businesses. There is no background information for him or any mention of school. He is polite, helpful and good. Child operating without parents – finding another family of sorts which raises questions for me as an adult reader. The fantastical elements in it – talking animals with almost magical abilities – are like a lot of children’s books and programmes...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Exploring communications technology
Digital & Computing

Exploring communications technology

...business, often the first thing you get is a series of recorded questions where you have to answer yes or no or maybe say your date of birth. At the other end, there's a speech recognition system. What this is usually doing is analysing your response in the frequency domain. And it does this by looking at how the power in your speech is distributed in different frequency...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Improving patient, family and colleague witnesses’ experiences of Fitness to Practise proceedings
Health, Sports & Psychology

Improving patient, family and colleague witnesses’ experiences of Fitness to Practise proceedings

...busy to go and do what the midwife said, and that I wasn’t listening, but I wasn’t allowed to say no or to give any evidence about myself that proves that I do always take health care professionals’ advice. Because it wasn’t about me. It was about the midwife’s fitness to practise. Discussion You probably noted a range of reasons for why cross-examination can be...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Introduction to polymers
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to polymers

...business. Sometimes, such enterprise is exceptional in producing new designs and new ways of using existing machines. Such is the story of the Topper boat (Section 6.3)...Introduction to polymers: 6.2 Manufacturing and process methods - Different production routes entail significantly different costings, and the selection of the manufacturing method is therefore a key...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Teaching and learning tricky topics Badge icon
Education & Development

Teaching and learning tricky topics

...busy with the activity. For example, the following table (Table 1) of items was made into a set of cards by science teachers and given to secondary school children to establish (mis)understandings about living things. The students were asked to group the cards into living and non-living and then asked to explain why they have grouped the cards in that way. Table 1 Alive...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
The formation of exoplanets
Science, Maths & Technology

The formation of exoplanets

...Business Media Figure 7: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Andrews, S. et al., (NRAO/AUI/NSF), Dagnello, S. Images are licensed for use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license, https://public.nrao.edu/news/2018-alma-survey-disks/, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Figure 8: Bohn, A.J. et al. (2021) ‘Discovery of a directly imaged planet to the young...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Climate change and renewable energy
Nature & Environment

Climate change and renewable energy

...business as usual’ scenario). Carbon dioxide emissions need to fall rapidly to limit warming to 1.5 °C by 2100 (Figure 12(a)), and even to keep below 2 °C warming (Figure 12(b)). For 1.5 °C, this means reaching net zero by around 2050 and then falling further below net zero (meaning that more carbon dioxide would need to be absorbed or captured from the atmosphere...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs