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Scales in space and time
Science, Maths & Technology

Scales in space and time

...history of the Universe, the history of the Earth, it’s a potential source of medicines, it’s a pile of bioreactors, it’s an organism that interacts with its environment. And this amazing tree is perfect for exploring scales in space and time. [MUSIC PLAYING This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course S112 Science: concepts and...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Upper intermediate French: discovering French cinema
Languages

Upper intermediate French: discovering French cinema

...family. Fokus 21: organisation whose aim is to inform about citizens’ initiatives and encourage collective action, especially with regard to social and environmental issues. « Maso et Miso vont en bateau » (1975): a 55-minute-long feminist documentary, a caustic parody of a TV show in which Bernard Pivot (journalist and TV host) has as his guest Minister Françoise...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Teaching assistants: support in action (Wales)
Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action (Wales)

...family and friends performing and reporting clinical observations of a patient’s temperature, pulse, respiration rate, and blood pressure obtaining measurement of a patient’s height and weight. Before the creation of these new roles, a registered nurse carried out such responsibilities. Now, health-care assistants give support to nurses who are released to do other...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Exploring career mentoring and coaching Badge icon
Money & Business

Exploring career mentoring and coaching

...family and friends – what could you do to facilitate more time with them? If you feel most alive when solving tricky problems with your work colleagues – do you have enough problem solving in your current role? Is this something you could increase? These are techniques and insights that a coach could certainly help you to explore in more detail and you’ll find out...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
EPQs: finding and using evidence
Education & Development

EPQs: finding and using evidence

...history have been written by people without history degrees. And more importantly, you’ll be able to discern the difference between ‘I don’t agree with this’ and ‘this is nonsense’. Thomas’ main points Thomas’ main points were: Ask people you trust, such as teachers, what they recommend. Look at the quality of the writing – good sources are well-written...
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Creativity, community and ICT
Education & Development

Creativity, community and ICT

...history, reaching back to Galileo's time and beyond. Interestingly, the way in which the words ‘creation’ and ‘creativity’ have developed across the centuries provides us with an insight into modern views of creativity. What did you and your colleagues consider as your most creative activities? Did you see yourselves as creative? When a group of teachers working...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Managing coastal environments
Nature & Environment

Managing coastal environments

...history of this coastal environment. Watch the video clip and keep in mind that coastal environments are all about change. Imagine you are standing on the shore looking south out across the mouth of the Blackwater estuary (viewpoint in Figure 1). What do you see? Perhaps, at first, you take in the general scene, the setting. In front is the broad sweep of the river, which...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
The Moon
Science, Maths & Technology

The Moon

...history. The budget for the Apollo programme was terminated in 1972, after which there was little further effort in lunar exploration until 1994 when the Clementine probe went into lunar orbit and collected a wealth of previously unknown information about the topography, crustal thickness, and variations in crustal composition across the whole lunar globe (Plate 2 [image...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs