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Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...writing this course a decision had to be made as to what to present from a number of studies and reports. One useful study, which was drawn upon to develop the carbon calculator, breaks down an individual’s mean CO2 equivalent emissions into a few high-level categories (Table 1). Table 1 High-level breakdown of the mean UK carbon footprint per person SECTOR GHG...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
A Victorian Christmas: Christmas in Dreamthorp
History & The Arts

A Victorian Christmas: Christmas in Dreamthorp

...write a decent Essay, I should like to write one "On the Revisiting of Places." It is strange how important the poorest human being is to himself! how he likes to double back on his experiences, to stand on the place he has stood on before, to meet himself face to face, as it were! I go to the great city in which my early life was spent, and I love to indulge myself in...
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Article 10 mins
Learning to teach: making sense of learning to teach
Education & Development

Learning to teach: making sense of learning to teach

...writing and the way they’re engaging with a particular text that they’ve been taught. The most important thing when I came into teaching was that I had to have the attention of the pupils, and that I think you have to lay down the guidelines. So that was a challenge. I think just the day-to-day planning a lesson – education had changed hugely since I’d left...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Critical criminology and the social sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Critical criminology and the social sciences

...writing, and long-winded arguments. Only very few will be aware right away that law affects them directly and daily. Our jobs are regulated by employment law. The way we shop is affected by consumer regulations and contract law. Where and how we live is subject to land law and other rules and regulations, whether we are renting or owning the place we live in. Laws of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Discovering music: the blues
History & The Arts

Discovering music: the blues

...write the truth with the blues… You see, I tell you, you gotta feed your mind with something all the time, you think about something all the time. Sometimes you can have a good feelin’, sometimes you have a bad feelin’. But now in the blues line, it’s always being up on somebody you love or somebody that quits you’ (Oakley, 1987 (1976), p. 46). An even tighter...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Minerals and the crystalline state
Science, Maths & Technology

Minerals and the crystalline state

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. Course image: Macroscopic Solutions in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Introduction to operations management
Money & Business

Introduction to operations management

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Images Course image: © Valio84sl/Dreamstime.com Introduction to Operations...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Applying your community engagement skills
Society, Politics & Law

Applying your community engagement skills

...creative swiping. So it can be really important for communities but also for police to look at approaches that have been tested in other contexts and think about how relevant or appropriate they might be here. Now, it’s important to remember, however, that just because something has worked in a different jurisdiction and a different country or with a different cohort of...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs