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Open education
Education & Development

Open education

...public your thoughts in this way, you can simply substitute the blog posts for entries into an unshared document, and omit the Twitter activity. However, we recommend that you do create a Twitter account and do the activities associated with it if at all possible, as this does add a great deal of value to your networking practice. We will look at pedagogy associated with...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs
Climate change
Nature & Environment

Climate change

...public. So it is fitting that one of the climate change research institutes in the UK, with a particular focus on an interdisciplinary approach and communication with the public, local authorities, business, etc., is named after him - the Tyndall Centre in Norwich. Box 2 'Exciting' molecular vibrations The chemical bonds that hold a molecule together are like springs and,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 18 hrs
The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004
History & The Arts

The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004

...health risks and potential harm from drink-fuelled crime, that’s the more insidious aspect of Peak Booze: the mental baggage it has left us with. I wouldn’t say any of my close friends are alcoholic, but a fair few of us are more dependent than we’d like on that cold glass of white wine or cheeky gin and tonic at the end of the day. It’s important to me to know...
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Article 10 mins
Evolution through natural selection
Nature & Environment

Evolution through natural selection

...health and working on a wide variety of biological problems, as the rest of the world struggled to come to terms with the implications of evolution. [Figure 1] Figure 1 Charles Darwin (1809-1882) The word 'evolution' means 'change over time' and it can be used in relation to anything that has a history; thus, we could describe the evolution of the motor car or of...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Microbes – friend or foe?
Nature & Environment

Microbes – friend or foe?

...health sciences and environmental sciences understand the contribution that microbiology can make to informed debate on medical and environmental issues make sense of information presented in different ways, including textual, numerical and graphical material...Microbes – friend or foe?: 1 Disease-causing bacteria - Surprisingly, many bacteria that cause disease are...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Economics explains discrimination in the labour market
Society, Politics & Law

Economics explains discrimination in the labour market

...health care or how they are treated in the labour market. We will focus on the last of these considerations and, in particular, why the labour market status of some groups of workers is significantly worse than that for the population at large. This does not mean that discrimination in the labour market is a more relevant consideration than other forms of discrimination,...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Making creativity and innovation happen
Money & Business

Making creativity and innovation happen

...public sector body or perhaps even charity. However, clearly in those contexts the focus might, for example, be less on customers and more on service users, and – equally – less on profit and more on outcome. Now watch the following short clip in which Markides (Irish Management Institute, 2013) discusses the concept of strategic innovation in greater detail. [MUSIC...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Art and life in ancient Egypt
History & The Arts

Art and life in ancient Egypt

...publication Description de l’Egypte, initially in ten volumes accompanied by 900 engraved illustrations, between 1809 and 1828. These brought a comprehensive and accurate visual survey of Egyptian temples, tombs and their sculpted and painted decorations before the European public for the first time. A second key development was the Egyptian hieroglyphic script being...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs