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Strategic planning for online learning
Education & Development

Strategic planning for online learning

...based around four main areas. Surrounding the framework are the cross-cutting themes of pedagogical innovation, flexibility and partnerships, resources and infrastructure and equitability and inclusivity, are present in all the four segments. Click through Figure 1 and read through the information that appears below the circles. Figure 1 (interactive): Theoretical...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Energy in buildings
Nature & Environment

Energy in buildings

...based chemicals and, being plastic, are inflammable and can produce toxic smoke when burning. Urea formaldehyde foams, widely used in the 1980s, have now been largely replaced because of the slow leakage of low levels of toxic formaldehyde into the interior spaces of buildings. Also, until the 1990s, the gases used to 'blow' many of these foams, creating bubbles, were...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Introducing Homer's Iliad
History & The Arts

Introducing Homer's Iliad

...based on the story of Troy. For many people, these stories are a gateway into the classical world. Since Homer’s poems are part of the Trojan War story, it is a good idea first to provide a summary of the siege of Troy: why it began, what happened there, and how it ended. Although there’s a considerable cast of characters, both divine and mortal, you don’t need to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
A Century of Change: Shifting Patterns in Irish Emigration in the 1800s
OpenLearn Ireland

A Century of Change: Shifting Patterns in Irish Emigration in the 1800s

...de-industrialisation as its native industries were unable to compete with cheaper British imports. Meanwhile, in America, as in Britain itself, workers were needed for manufacturing industries and for infrastructural projects such as the construction of canals and railways. Irish labour would help to meet this demand. Changes in the agricultural sector also incentivised...
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Article 5 mins
On a Wing and a Prayer: A case study
Society, Politics & Law

On a Wing and a Prayer: A case study

...de Jong, Umut Erel and Olga Jurasz. Olga: Alia what inspired you to make On a Wing and a Prayer? Alia: I had been asked by Goldsmiths’ Methods Lab to respond to John Berger’s book A Seventh Man, which is a portrait of guest workers in the European Union in the late ‘60s and ‘70s. There is a point in the book where Berger describes the building of a tunnel...
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Article 5 mins
Broken Hearts in Batten Disease (Juvenile Dementia)
Science, Maths & Technology

Broken Hearts in Batten Disease (Juvenile Dementia)

...DE ANGELIS, M. H. & COTMAN, S. L. 2012. Large-scale phenotyping of an accurate genetic mouse model of JNCL identifies novel early pathology outside the central nervous system. PLoS One, 7, e38310. WAGER, K., ZDEBIK, A. A., FU, S., COOPER, J. D., HARVEY, R. J. & RUSSELL, C. 2016. Neurodegeneration and Epilepsy in a Zebrafish Model of CLN3 Disease (Batten Disease). PLoS...
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Article 10 mins
Groups and teamwork
Science, Maths & Technology

Groups and teamwork

...based on those proposed by Adair, 1983). A collection of people can be defined as a work group or team if it shows most, if not all, of the following characteristics: a definable membership: a collection of three or more people identifiable by name or type; a group consciousness or identity: the members think of themselves as a group; a sense of shared purpose: the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Manufacturing
Science, Maths & Technology

Manufacturing

...based on egg-timers! More realistically, the discussion will be heavily constrained to more modern solutions, so that the conceptual design stage might consider options such as the type of movement to the employed (clockwork or quartz) or whether the watch face should be digital, analogue or both. Decisions on the type of user, i.e. male, female or child, might also be...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs