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Life in the Palaeozoic
Nature & Environment

Life in the Palaeozoic

...community. SAQ 4 If the soft-bodied fossils of the Burgess Shale are taken away, all that remains is a typical Cambrian assemblage of hard-bodied organisms. Why is this important to bear in mind when trying to interpret other Cambrian fossil assemblages? Answer The other Cambrian assemblages may also have been dominated by soft-bodied animals, even if the only fossils...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introduction to computational thinking
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to computational thinking

...communities who said hey there is something to computer science, to algorithms, more than just processing power. That is the point I am trying to make. That computing is more than just about devices and horsepower, and supercomputers, and this particular algorithm was what I think the tipping point when biology and computer science came together. Since then, there have...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
An introduction to electronics
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to electronics

...communicate and investigate. ARMANDO MARINO The internet can connect us to friends and relatives anywhere on the planet. JEFF JOHNSON Computer-aided design processes have advanced many fields of engineering. TIM DRYSDALE Medical technology has benefited from 3D imaging techniques that see safely inside the body using light, sound and magnetic fields. BERNIE CLARK...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Effects of pollutants on the aquatic environment
Nature & Environment

Effects of pollutants on the aquatic environment

...communities compared with those immediately upstream and the successive reaches downstream. After a certain distance, natural biodegradative processes will break down the pollutants, often returning the river to something like its original condition. Three stages of organic pollution can be defined. When the load is small, there will be little change in the species of...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting female performance in sport and fitness

...communicate with female athletes...Do you support women’s performance in sport or fitness as a coach or parent? Are you a female athlete who wants to optimise your performance using recent research insights? If so, then this free course is for you. It addresses the problem of sports science research traditionally being male dominated and the assumption that if it works...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Why is Mongolia a good place to die?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is Mongolia a good place to die?

...community through her own efforts to educate herself in palliative care. It began in 2001, when she studied palliative medicine in Poland, which was ahead of Mongolia in developing its own hospice network. Today, she is increasingly in demand to provide her own palliative care training, particularly in Russian-speaking former Soviet states. She has recently returned from...
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Article 15 mins
History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past

...communities, 1695-1870 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007). Rosalind Crone, Katie Halsey and Shafquat Towheed, ‘Examining the evidence of reading: three examples from the Reading Experience Database, 1450-1945’, in Bonnie Gunzenhauser, Reading in History: New methodologies from the Anglo-American Tradition (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2010). Miriam Dobson and Benjamin...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Assessment in secondary science
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary science

...Communication is too often one-way from the teacher to the students, who are unlikely to respond to instructive comments such as ‘Complete this …’ or ‘Redraw the diagram’. Students need time to respond to comments when the work is fresh in the mind. Giving students time to read and respond to written feedback is a valuable means of encouraging a dialogue....
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs