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Difference and challenge in teams
Money & Business

Difference and challenge in teams

...social information’ held by others in the colony. These bees out-compete the directions given by other bees dancing less vigorously. Some more recent studies of bee behaviour suggest that ‘private information’ held by individual bees (e.g. the memory of where they found nectar on a previous foraging trip) is also at play. Guidance given by different team members is...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
The formation of exoplanets
Science, Maths & Technology

The formation of exoplanets

...interact after forming appreciate how planet formation models can explain the observed exoplanet population...The formation of exoplanets: 1 Protoplanetary discs - The idea that planets form from initially microscopic solid material within protoplanetary discs made predominantly of gas dates back to the Enlightenment, possibly starting with the idea that the planets of...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Teamwork: an introduction for school governors (Wales)
Education & Development

Teamwork: an introduction for school governors (Wales)

...social media posts, films and dramas with parents, carers and siblings. As a governor you may encounter a situation where a parent may want to take this further and extend their involvement by formally becoming ‘home educators’. This may be done because the parents or carers feel that their child is unhappy in a formal setting. They believe their child can thrive when...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Why maps are made
Society, Politics & Law

Why maps are made

...social science recognise and give examples of how maps can influence our “view” of the world describe the relationship between data and space as represented on a map...Why maps are made: 1.1 What makes a map? - [Map 1] Map 1 The Millennium Dome in Greenwich, one of 56,000 photographs taken for the Millennium Map – 2000's answer to the Domesday Book (Source: The...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
The distance between us
History & The Arts

The distance between us

...interactive, and even dependent on us’ (2018, p.71). These mediated experiences instantiate a distance between humans and nonhuman others, a distance which is exacerbated by ‘distorted’ media representations. Soothing the paradox Given the scope and consistency of the socialisation of the care/exploitation paradox, it is unsurprising, but nonetheless instructive,...
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Teachers sharing resources online
Education & Development

Teachers sharing resources online

...social constructivism (see, for example, Vygotsky, 1978), communities of practice (Lave and Wenger, 1991; Wenger, 1998, 2006) and the teacher as learner (see, for example, Cochrane-Smith and Lytle, 1999). In these ways we see teachers as learning together and constructing new shared knowledge. In doing so a community is developed around the learning, knowledge and the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century
Science, Maths & Technology

Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century

...social contact for those of us connected to suitable networks. Some people may find it difficult to imagine not having access to the information and services that play a crucial part in their daily lives. Others may feel that they have no part to play in the digital world because their network access is very limited or even non-existent. Some simply don’t care about the...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Remembering the Timex Dundee struggles 1993
Society, Politics & Law

Remembering the Timex Dundee struggles 1993

...Social Sciences courses. Background The American corporation Timex first came to Dundee in 1946, setting up with eleven workers in the back of a converted farm building. At its peak in the 1970s, Timex had become one of the largest employers in the city, employing thousands of workers at four sites across Dundee. Most of the Timex workforce were women and they performed...
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