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Understanding dyslexia Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding dyslexia

...et al., 2024); later on, another two physicians, Morgan and Hinshelwood (based on the work of German ophthalmologist Kussmaul, 1878) used the word to describe a kind of ‘word blindness’ where people had trouble reading. Wolf et al. assert that the first explanations were linked to the visual system. Nowadays, we know that dyslexia is not due to vision problems, but...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Money & Business

Developing career resilience

...articles/nj7269-122a (Accessed 6 September 2021). Hartwig, A. et al. (2020) ‘Workplace team resilience: A systematic review and conceptual development’, Organizational Psychology Review, Vol. 10 (3-4_, pp. 169-200 [Online]. Available at https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2041386620919476 (Accessed 6 September 2021). Kuntz, J.C. (2020) Resilience in Times of...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Teaching and learning tricky topics Badge icon
Education & Development

Teaching and learning tricky topics

...et al., 2011, Lucas and Mladenovic, 2007). Threshold concepts focus on the cognitive (thinking) domain of learning rather than the affective (feelings, moods and emotions) or behavioural (physical/kinaesthetic) domains of learning (see Bloom’s (1956) characterisation of learning)...Week 1 Tricky topics and threshold concepts: 1.1 Why do misunderstandings occur in...
Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin
History & The Arts

Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin

...articles (‘a’, ‘an’, ‘the’) is perhaps surprising for English speakers. Latin has no direct equivalents, in spite of the fact that the Latin words unus (‘one’) and ille (‘that’) are ancestors of the indefinite and definite article in Romance languages (such as ‘un’, ‘una’ and ‘el’, ‘la’ in Spanish). However, the ‘missing’ words of...
Digital forensics
Science, Maths & Technology

Digital forensics

...article as an initial jumping-off point and check what is being said against other sources. Discussion The position the court takes is quite clear. In the appeal case, Adams was accused of rape but the only evidence against him was DNA. Later Court of Appeal guidelines said that the judge’s directions to the jury about the statistical value of the evidence in effect...
Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world

...et al., 2015) Article 2 argues that ‘cute shapes the internet’ (with particular reference to Grumpy Cat). The author uses the Allen-Alchian theorem, or the ‘third law of demand’ to model quality on the internet. The article makes some assumptions, which may make sense to those immersed in the field of economics, but are open to question from other perspectives. It...
Getting started with German 2
Languages

Getting started with German 2

...article (der/die/das) is not needed when you refer to a food item in general terms. For example, you would say: Ich esse Brot und Käse zum Frühstück. Ich trinke Kaffee. However, if you refer to a ‘unit’ of food, you would use the indefinite article. For example: Ich esse ein Ei und trinke ein Glas Orangensaft (one egg, one glass of orange juice). Therefore, you...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Starting with law
Society, Politics & Law

Starting with law

...article called ‘Butts out’, and then answer the questions that follow. To do this you should first read for gist, reading the whole extract through quickly to get a general idea of its content. Then read the questions. Next, read the article again and highlight the sections of the text that provide the answers. You can then write your answers to the questions. Write...
Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs