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Understanding systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...history. Step 2 People. Who did (or would) this involve? Keep it anonymous or use fictitious names. If you were writing a story about what happened, what characters would need to be on the cast list? Not just the central characters, but all those who would directly or indirectly play a significant part in the story. Step 3 Notions you drew on. You may well find this the...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
Exploring Homer’s Odyssey
History & The Arts

Exploring Homer’s Odyssey

...families are angry, too. But they'll get over it with Athena's help. Odysseus is in the clear and ready for life with Penelope, or another adventure. [MUSIC PLAYING] Watch the whole animation once without taking notes. Then replay it and fill in the table below with a few notes summarising the role of each of the characters listed. Aim to write a sentence or two, or a...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Learning, thinking and doing
Science, Maths & Technology

Learning, thinking and doing

...history is just boring facts'. I'm sure you can supply your own version of this closing down of the issue. When we avoid trying to find out why we have failed to learn something there are implications for the long term as well as the short term. In the short term, we abandon a goal to succeed in learning some subject or skill which might have been important to us. In the...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction
Digital & Computing

Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction

...history of careless driving incidents. and so on. We conclude that there were many factors contributing to the cause and the severity of the incident. Figure 6, showing the effect of the four factors Environment, Engineering, Education and Enforcement (the four Es) on road accidents, is actually a very simplified multiple cause diagram, drawn from the perspective of, say,...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Exploring books for children: words and pictures
History & The Arts

Exploring books for children: words and pictures

...history of children’s book illustrations. Activity 1 Iona and Peter Opie’s famous collection of children’s books was acquired by the Bodleian Library in 1988 and contains approximately 20 000 books printed for children between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries. Watch the following video that features a visit to this collection at the Bodleian’s Weston Library...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Squares, roots and powers
Science, Maths & Technology

Squares, roots and powers

...family that she might like to have to stay. She replied that she would like to have her two daughters the following week, so four bags of rice then would be a great help. The king agreed to this and suggested that she might like to think of having more of her family to stay. He said he would be prepared to double the number of bags he gave her each week. At this point his...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Getting started with Chinese 1
Languages

Getting started with Chinese 1

...family and friends; let them know you have decided to start learning Chinese and they can help you when you practise what you have been learning, or leave you in peace when you need to study. After completing this course, you will be able to: say hello and goodbye and thank people in Mandarin Chinese respond to greeting and thanks use personal pronouns including the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
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Money & Business

Working in teams

...history of working together in the past and an expectation of working together in the future. Understanding how these dimensions apply to your own team experiences might be helpful when explaining your role within the team to future employers. For example, reflecting on whether you brought specialised knowledge to the team or to what degree you were responsible for...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs