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What is a virus?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is a virus?

...changes to the host’s cells, which can damage or kill them. The production of new viral particles leads to more of the host’s cells becoming infected and underlies the transmission of the virus to a new host. It’s estimated that every millilitre of seawater contains up to 100 million viruses, while lake sediments contain around 20 billion viruses per gram.How long a...
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Article 20 mins
Reading communities: why, what and how?
Education & Development

Reading communities: why, what and how?

...changes in response. Ask your class about their views and explore the innovations they suggest. Sustain any changes over time and document differences to children’s dispositions and desire to read. At all costs, we must avoid routinising this pedagogy and ensure, for example, that the reading aloud choices are made by children as well as teachers. The books which we...
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In the night sky: Orion
Science, Maths & Technology

In the night sky: Orion

...change the way you see the night sky. You’ll examine one of the most famous constellations, Orion, who the Ancient Greeks believed was a huntsman placed among the stars by Zeus himself. Starting with its famous nebula where new stars and planets are being formed, you’ll take a look at the seven brightest stars that make up this constellation, including the supergiants...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Digital communications
Digital & Computing

Digital communications

...changing. Originally, fibre was used just for stand-alone point-to-point links. Signal processing – amplification, regeneration, switching and routeing, for example – was done in electronic components. Now, however, devices for optical signal processing have been developed so that ‘all-optical networking’ is possible. In this unit the basics of communication over...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Improving patient, family and colleague witnesses’ experiences of Fitness to Practise proceedings
Health, Sports & Psychology

Improving patient, family and colleague witnesses’ experiences of Fitness to Practise proceedings

...change their practice. Some participants described being unsatisfied with the outcome of their referral, but they wanted to ensure that people are aware of their concerns. According to an interview participant: [The quote reads: ‘… He won’t go to court or he won’t go to jail or anything … Can you believe that? Now, I don’t care because to me it’s more like...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Veiling
History & The Arts

Veiling

...change within different historical periods and between different generations. The great popularity of denim jeans across the world is, for example, a relatively recent phenomenon. Wider and intense examination of decisions made in response to the daily dilemma of what to wear ‘can reveal much about society, history, politics, culture and, above all, the way in which...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Getting started with Jamovi
Health, Sports & Psychology

Getting started with Jamovi

...change a little. The key steps should still be the same. File: Installing Jamovi Once Jamovi has been installed, you can then work through the second handout, which explains how to locate and open the software on either a Windows or Mac device. It also provides information about Jamovi Cloud for learners who are unable to install the software locally. File: Getting...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
What is poetry?
History & The Arts

What is poetry?

...change the application of these elements with each new horizon. Good writers constantly renew language and conventions by renegotiating the relationship between the form and content of every new poem. In trying to define poetry, we often end up thinking archaically. We think of the work of writers such as Keats or Shakespeare, for instance, as in some way defining what...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs