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Approaching language, literature and childhood
Education & Development

Approaching language, literature and childhood

...humanities, we have a duty to make our own decisions and to realise our responsibilities. The study of children’s texts is technically more complex than the study of adult books, partly because the audience is different, and their responses more obviously unknowable, and partly because of the range of texts and the range of purposes. With the rapid growth of electronic...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Intermediate Spanish: Understanding spoken Spanish
Languages

Intermediate Spanish: Understanding spoken Spanish

...resources as a useful and enjoyable learning tool. Through completing various activities you will improve your active use of the language, and develop the confidence to access further audio-visual resources and take your Spanish studies to a higher level...Welcome to this free course, Intermediate Spanish: Understanding spoken Spanish, which is aimed at intermediate...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Approaching plays
History & The Arts

Approaching plays

...Humanities...Approaching plays: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the basic technical terms associated with plays make the most out the text of a play...Approaching plays: 1 Approaching plays - Most people's experience of plays will be through seeing them on stage, or on television or video. Or, thinking of drama in a more...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Robert Owen and New Lanark
History & The Arts

Robert Owen and New Lanark

...Humanities...Robert Owen and New Lanark: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the Enlightenment ideas that underpinned Robert Owen's social reform agenda understand how Owen's background and experience at New Lanark fed through into his thinking in the essays in A New View of Society understand the main proposals in the essays...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
All my own work: exploring academic integrity Badge icon
Education & Development

All my own work: exploring academic integrity

...resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Session 1: Ethics, trust and academic community: why?: Introduction - In this first session, you will explore the ideas around ethics, trust and academic community, i.e. the ‘why’ behind the importance of producing your own work. The session has been divided into...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages

...Resource Unit Assessment in Secondary MFL – Issues in Practise. I'm Maria Luisa Perez Cavana and when designing this unit I drew on my many years in MFL education as a German and Spanish teacher as well as my experience of initial teacher education. Assessment is challenging for MFL teachers in secondary schools because language learning is very complex involving the...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Quantitative and qualitative research in finance
Money & Business

Quantitative and qualitative research in finance

...human social behaviour link remote causes and consequences in functional relationships: it is argued that particular social practices become established because of the consequences they typically have, these feeding back to reinforce the practices they serve. The people involved in such functional social processes may not be aware of them. For example, patterns of social...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Exploring depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring depression

...human beings. Each of us is trapped in his own body.' To which you have to say 'That's true, but I think we should focus right now on what to have for breakfast'. [LAUGHING] A lot of the time what they are expressing is not illness, but insight. And one comes to think what's really extraordinary, is that most of us know about those existential questions, and they don't...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs