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Understanding dyslexia Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding dyslexia

...Spanish and Italian, show that dyslexic individuals can read more easily (Courcy, Béland and Pitchford, 2000; Müller, Saarenketo and Lyytinen, 2000). Since phonological deficit is just one aspect of dyslexia, it’s important to explore other cognitive factors too...Week 3: Explaining dyslexia: 1.2.2 The ‘Visual deficit’ hypotheses - In the early 1900s, Samuel Orton...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Art in Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

Art in Renaissance Venice

...Spanish, Dutch, British and French colonies, as well as the Muslim states. After that time freed slaves continued to live in Venice, mostly though not exclusively working as domestic servants. Although Africans were never as numerous as other communities, such as Jews, Turks and Germans, the imagery of black people entered into Venetian popular culture and has never...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Introducing International Relations
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing International Relations

...Spanish prime ministers, and the kings of Italy, Portugal and Greece. In 1902, after the assassination of US President William McKinley, his successor, Theodore Roosevelt, declared a global war on terror. Denouncing anarchy as a crime against the whole human race. He fostered international cooperation between states to facilitate deportations, tight immigration controls...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Understanding ADHD
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding ADHD

...SPANISH] You are coloring so finely. I think the part about The Incredible Years that was most valuable to me as a parent was the intentionality of time, specifically with your child. And I really saw the difference. REBECCA MUELLER We were both on the same page through that. And so it united us as a couple. ANNIE YOUNG We gained new skills, too, that we'll use for the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons
History & The Arts

Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons

...SPANISH] INTERPRETER: The prize we have been generously awarded enables us to unite as one, even though we are very far apart. It is perhaps a symbol that in spite of distance, we are together in a common enterprise. The defence of our most fundamental right, the right to live. Nowadays, we only have it as a conditional right. In a few minutes, the decision of a few men...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Global perspectives on primary education
Education & Development

Global perspectives on primary education

...Spanish Red Cross’ and ‘Telefonica Espanola’. They changed the entire structure, made everything from new because after the earthquake we were teaching in wooden huts. At that time we were also helped by a local businessman, to build temporary classrooms in the yard. Then the Civil Defence decided to take it all down and the necessary steps were taken to permanently...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin
History & The Arts

Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin

...Spanish). However, the ‘missing’ words of most interest here are those which reveal something about the way Latin works. Look again at the translations. The words in bold have no direct equivalents in Latin but are instead represented by the endings of words. We will see how this works in detail in the following pages. Pliny the Younger, Letters, 6.16.1. English You...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
What is Europe?
Society, Politics & Law

What is Europe?

...Spanish Habsburgs and French Bourbons for overall European supremacy. It was more precisely formulated in the Peace of Westphalia, which in 1648 brought to an end the Thirty Years War between the major powers and the internecine conflict between German Catholics and Protestants that devastated the central part of the European continent. The Westphalian order – built on...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs