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Continuing classical Latin
History & The Arts

Continuing classical Latin

...la bellette la mange´’ or whatever, where ‘que’ is the French word for ‘that’ just like ‘quia’ is the popular Latin word for ‘that’ in the Satyricon. JC Right. And there’s another word, the word for ‘weasel’ I understood, mustela. But then the word for ‘eat’ in that sentence. What was that word? GH Yeah. That was ‘comedit’ which is a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Introducing the Classical world
History & The Arts

Introducing the Classical world

...orally transmitted tales and subtle studies of outstanding individuals, their trials and relationships. Chris Emlyn-Jones The first perception we have of the Greeks were men of enormous power and charisma called Odysseus and Achilles, and they were involved in a war against a citadel called Troy. We know about them through poems which were orally transmitted through the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Freeing people caught between life and death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freeing people caught between life and death

...communicate with patients in a vegetative state, including Gillian*. In July 2005, this 23-year-old had been crossing a road, chatting on her mobile phone. She was struck by two cars. Yet, though she had been diagnosed as vegetative, there was something about her that caught the attention of Martin Coleman of the University of Cambridge Impaired Consciousness Research...
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Article 15 mins
Working mathematically
Science, Maths & Technology

Working mathematically

...communicating making connections (including applying mathematics) using tools. Each of the six processes listed here represents a wide range of component skills that usefully contribute to a learner’s mathematical thinking as well as to their general thinking skills. In the activity that follows, you are invited first to spend some time thinking of examples of the...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Making sense of ourselves
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of ourselves

...communication and self-disclosure, friendship, love, conflict and violence, relationship dissolution, and loneliness...Making sense of ourselves: 2.1 Enduring love? - This activity probes some of the traditional understandings that underpin key psychological theories about personal relationships. It focuses on the findings of Enduring Love? – a research project...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Getting started with German 1
Languages

Getting started with German 1

...communicate effectively in German in everyday contexts! This OpenLearn course is an extract from the beginning of the Open Centre for Languages and Cultures short course, LGXG001 Beginners German 1: fang an! After completing this free course, you may wish to register for the full course to continue your learning!...Week 1: Hallo!: Introduction - At the beginning of this...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Introduction to adolescent mental health Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introduction to adolescent mental health

...communities actually facing a mental health crisis, or is this a crisis that is being blown up in the media? To get started on this topic, listen to Audio 1 in which a parent talks about their experience of trying to understand what is happening in the life of their adolescent child. SPEAKER It was probably brewing, if you like, for quite some time, possibly even over...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Looking globally: the future of education Badge icon
Education & Development

Looking globally: the future of education

...community. But to develop into a member of society in the Australian bush had nothing in common with developing into a member of society in ancient Greece, and still less with what is needed today. Any education is, in its forms and methods, an outgrowth of the needs of the society in which it exists. (Dewey, 1934) [A photograph of the American educational reformer John...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs