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

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM

...change my practice?; and retrospective framing. We explain each of these categories with examples of SoTL inquiries in STEM (Figure 1). [Described image] Figure 1 Taxonomy of areas of investigation in SoTL What works? If a particular teaching method or approach is effective, you may like to investigate why it is working well and whether/how the lessons or good practice...
Assessing contemporary science
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing contemporary science

...change our lives, and those of future generations. As citizens, we need to keep abreast of the changes in scientific knowledge so we can have a say in how it can, and should, be applied in wider society (Holliman et al., 2009). To do this, we need to develop generic skills that can be applied across the sciences. In practice, science is not just one thing. Scientific...
Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online

...changed by authorised people or processes (integrity) be available to read and use whenever we want (availability). It is important to be able to distinguish between these three aspects of security. So let’s look at an example. Case study: Equifax, credit reporting company In September 2017, Equifax reported a data breach in which the records of 147 million people had...
Teaching citizenship: work and the economy
Education & Development

Teaching citizenship: work and the economy

...change in the political culture of this country both nationally and locally: for people to think of themselves as active citizens, willing, able and equipped to have an influence in public life. Crick report, 1998 In the DfES document Making Sense of Citizenship: A CPD Handbook a distinction is drawn between acts citizenship and status citizenship (Chapter 1: ‘Spelling...
Unsolved problems in cosmology
Science, Maths & Technology

Unsolved problems in cosmology

...change with time. In fact it is now apparent that the expansion rate of the Universe is not constant in time, so we can refer to the time-varying Hubble parameter cap h of t , which is related to time-varying value of the scale factor by cap h of t equals a dot above of t divided by a of t Equation label: (2b) For many years it was believed that the expansion rate of the...
Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
History & The Arts

Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

...Changing views of the artist consolidated his integration into the literary canon. Viewed in the light of the biographies of romantic poets like Shelley (1792–1822), an avowed atheist, and Byron (1788–1824), surrounded through much of his career by sexual scandal, Marlowe's tumultuous life and early death, along with his sensational plays, began to look less like...
Succeed with maths: part 2 Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 2

...change between units – usually known as converting. So, if one centimetre is a hundredth of a metre, that means one metre must contain 100 centimetres. Similarly, one metre contains 1000 millimetres and one kilometre is the same as 1000 metres. This can be summarised as follows: 1 km = 1000 m 1 m = 100 cm 1 m = 1000 mm. or in a diagram that shows how to change between...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Studying mammals: Life in the trees
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Life in the trees

...change may, in part, be a reflection of the diminished importance of smell. The brain. This organ is relatively large. The cerebral cortex - in primates, more often called the neocortex - is elaborately folded and complex in structure. This part of the brain is involved with the highly complex processes that include learning, reasoning and memory. In all, up to 30 or so...