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Approaching plays
History & The Arts

Approaching plays

...socially disparate. Given the regular interaction between performers and audience, through asides and monologues, it would have been difficult to sustain the notion of dramatic illusion. There was little in the way of set design or décor to consider, thus enabling quick and easy scene changes. 3. The relationship designated by this performance space is the one we most...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Judicial decision making
Society, Politics & Law

Judicial decision making

...interactive activities to explain and demonstrate each key idea. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course W112 Civil justice and tort law...This free course, Judicial decision making, explains how judges decide cases. You will learn how judges make sense of evidence, and how they decide on fair outcomes in legal disputes. The course...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision

...interactive, because I think at the moment part of our problem with attracting the younger audiences, they’re not watching hour-long anythings, so what they want is a very different kind of experience, and so far we’re not engaging them in that way and the conservation and environmental organisations aren’t engaging them that way, ‘cause finding an audience when...
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Video 30 mins
Could we control our climate? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Could we control our climate?

...interactions of the atmosphere, biosphere (living things), hydrosphere (liquid water), cryosphere (frozen water) and land surface. These realms are illustrated respectively with images of a blue sky with clouds, a forest, the sea, snow on mountains and a crop. Red arrows are drawn to show that each realm interacts with each of the others.] Figure 5 A simple diagram of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Partnerships and networks in work with young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Partnerships and networks in work with young people

...Social Exclusion Unit (SEU)...Partnerships and networks in work with young people: 2.2 Young people and social exclusion - [A photograph of a group of four teenagers, sitting on a wall at the side of a street.] Figure 3 The creation of the SEU was particularly significant in the development of partnership working in relation to work with young people – so much so that...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
The power of infographics in research dissemination
Education & Development

The power of infographics in research dissemination

...social-media channels, such as Facebook and Twitter, where images work particularly well. They also get some terrible press. The article ‘Ending the infographic plague’ gives examples of some of the ‘terrible, lying infographics, which have become endemic in the blogosphere, and constantly threaten to break out into epidemic or even pandemic status’ (McArdle,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages

...interaction cultural awareness and the willingness to participate and to take risks. So it’s important to understand the importance of assessment in a learner’s language development, in particular what should be assessed and how. This unit is for beginner teachers of MFL in secondary schools. It starts by looking at what it means to make progress in MFL. From there it...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Minerals and the crystalline state
Science, Maths & Technology

Minerals and the crystalline state

...interactive activities, including questions and answers, video clips, slidecasts and a Digital Kit...Rocks are made of minerals and, as minerals are natural crystals, the geological world is mostly a crystalline world. This free course, Minerals and the crystalline state, introduces the study of minerals and crystal structures, using online text and interactive...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs