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Jack Perks - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Jack Perks - Earth in Vision

...public involved. I think social media has given the public a voice directly so these groups, so in a way they’re doing it fantastically. What’s the importance of social media for today’s filmmakers? I think certainly because I grew up with social media it’s kind of second nature to me. And I think some of the perhaps… and I mean this in the nicest possible way,...
Creating open educational resources
Education & Development

Creating open educational resources

...publication of high quality educational materials, organised as courses. In 2001, MIT was the first university to work on putting many of the teacher-defined support materials from its undergraduate and graduate courses online, in MIT OpenCourseWare. The term ‘open educational resources’ was coined by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation...
Organisations, environmental management and innovation
Nature & Environment

Organisations, environmental management and innovation

...public pressure)? What practices does an innovative organisation engage in with respect to environmental management? Systems ideas are used to explore and develop critical perspectives on innovation in relation to environmental management by organisations. A systems approach raises the question of perspective: who decides what is innovation, what boundary judgements are...
Brighton Pavilion
History & The Arts

Brighton Pavilion

...publicized the health-giving properties of bathing in, and drinking, sea water in his A Dissertation: Concerning the Use of Sea Water in Diseases of the Glands, etc . (1752). Sea water taken one way or another, according to Russell, would cure almost any disease, including ‘fluxions of redundant humours’, rheumatism, madness, consumption, impotence, rabies and...
Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Developing career resilience Badge icon
Money & Business

Developing career resilience

...health, despite experiencing adversity.’ Their review also identified ‘the dynamic nature of resilience throughout the lifespan; and the interaction of resilience in different ways with major domains of life function’. This perspective becomes very relevant when starting to look at that major function of life – your career. Resilience is a characteristic that we...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Intermediate French: 14 July
Languages

Intermediate French: 14 July

...publics (free dances open to everybody). In this section a variety of people explain how they celebrate Bastille Day and what it means to them. Vitrine de confiseur décorée pour le quatorze juillet...Intermediate French: 14 July: 1.1 Les avis sont partagés - What exactly does the average French person celebrate on Bastille Day? As you will see, opinions can differ...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Translation as a career
Languages

Translation as a career

...health services and by local authorities is known as ‘public service’ translation. Other prominent forms of translation include localisation, videogame translation, subtitling, dubbing and audio description. Many aspiring translators are attracted by the idea of literary translation of fiction, theatre or poetry. This is an area in which it is difficult to make a...
Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Working with diversity in services for children and young people
Education & Development

Working with diversity in services for children and young people

...Health Promotion at The Open University. In this chapter Douglas argues that, in order to work effectively with young African-Caribbean women, practitioners ‘must have some understanding of the lives and contexts of young black women’. She maintains that practitioners working with young black women need to understand the complexity of their lives and to resist the...