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Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM

...interactive quizzes. What is a badge? Digital badges are a new way of demonstrating online that you have gained a skill. Colleges and universities are working with employers and other organisations to develop open badges that help learners gain recognition for their skills, and support employers to identify the right candidate for a job. Badges demonstrate your work and...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
A brief history of the lens
Society, Politics & Law

A brief history of the lens

...that appeared through a lens. The arrival of photography did not solve the challenges of understanding what we could now see, but it extended the possibilities of what we could explore. Explore further: To learn more about the impact lenses have made in our lives, check out our 'Life through a lens interactive' where you will get to explore the history of lenses and more....
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Article 5 mins
Traditional Ecological Knowledges: Learning from the past to inform the future
Nature & Environment

Traditional Ecological Knowledges: Learning from the past to inform the future

...Interact and, if possible, join like-minded communities, either virtually or locally. This could be helping clear invasive species or monitor local flora and fauna. Such engagement is useful not only to learn but also share ideas and motivate each other. Commit: work to make others aware and engage in democratic processes, such as elections to vote for people and policies...
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Article 10 mins
Reading and note taking – preparation for study
Society, Politics & Law

Reading and note taking – preparation for study

...social scientists work describe some basic techniques relating to reading, for example, highlighting, note-taking and the processing write in your own words using references and quoting sources...Reading and note taking – preparation for study: Introduction - This course is about the very basic study skills of reading and taking notes. You will be asked to think about...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
School geography: Exploring a definition
Education & Development

School geography: Exploring a definition

...interactions between places and people.’ (Twigg, 2004) Click 'view document' to open and read all of Stephen Twigg's speech. View document So, what is the power of school geography? This course is concerned with how geography is understood. What particular educational value does it have? The subject of geography goes on developing and changing in the universities. In...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Entrepreneurship – from ideas to reality Badge icon
Money & Business

Entrepreneurship – from ideas to reality

...Social businesses – there are common organisational types used by social businesses: Social enterprise – a business with primarily social objectives. Profit is mostly reinvested in the business or in the community, rather than maximising profit for shareholders and owners. Community enterprise – generally taken to be a social enterprise owned and run by a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Lying and politics: a brief primer
Society, Politics & Law

Lying and politics: a brief primer

...social situations. Lady Fookes I would describe a lie as a deliberate misrepresentation of a fact. Deliberate and I think that's the key thing. If I may make the comparison with a murder it has to be deliberate to be murder or so reckless of the consequences as to be the same thing which would distinguish it from manslaughter when you do it by mistake. It's not intended....
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Video 5 mins
James Smith - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

James Smith - Earth in Vision

...social media team as well, so it’s… And it’s been like that since the word go. It’s been going for ten years now, but it started with this very interactive ethos at the core of it and it still has that and we’re building on that as the technology and the social media outlets increase, it allows us to have an even fuller and more rapid conversation with our...
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Video 30 mins