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Basic science: understanding experiments
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding experiments

...health and safety with hot objects. OK, so let's see. And the weight's gone down to 98 grams. So I'll record that. After one minute, 98 grams. Now I'll pop it back in and give it another minute. [DING] That's another minute up, so I'll do another measurement. It now weighs, oh, 84 grams. I'm just going to give it one more minute and see if the weight continues to fall....
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It
History & The Arts

Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It

...public haunt [cut off from the crowds] / Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, / Sermons in stones, and good in everything’. Is Jaques implicitly criticising the Duke here? And himself? What is ‘All’s the world’s stage’ but a collection of wise sayings and examples? Jaques’s cynical approach owes much to contemporary verse satire, a genre which...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Teachers sharing resources online
Education & Development

Teachers sharing resources online

...publications, technology has greatly expanded the possibilities. The internet, social media, blogs, wikis and other tools have enabled educators to develop truly personalised networks, connecting with peers and other experts across the globe on a variety of levels, in their particular areas of interest (see, for example, Kelleher and Hutchinson, 2010; Okada et al., 2012)....
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
How teams work
Money & Business

How teams work

...public, whereas an accounting department within a larger organisation is supplying a service to other parts of the organisation. The purpose of the operational team is usually specified in terms of the level of service or the quality of the goods supplied. Operational teams usually have well-defined roles and responsibilities. While the idea of team roles is typically...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Start writing fiction: characters and stories
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction: characters and stories

...publication. To start writing fiction also means to develop your faculty of self-criticism. A great part of writing fiction is knowing how, why and when you should edit your own work. This is just one of the points at which honesty enters the equation of writing. The more ruthless you can be about your own work, the better it will be...Week 3: Writing is editing: 3.2.1...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Babylonian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Babylonian mathematics

...public knowledge.) [Figure 4] Figure 4 Plimpton 322 Look at the photograph and notice the main features of what remains: four columns of numbers, with words at the head of each column. Now look at the transcription (we have labelled the columns A, B, C for ease of reference), and see if any pattern is evident to you A B C [1;59,0,]15 1,59 2,49 1 [1;56,56,]58,14,5O,6,15...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Getting started with German 1
Languages

Getting started with German 1

...Public Domain Week 1, Activity 4, Conchita Wurst: (C) Ailura, cleared under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareALike 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-SA 3.0) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20140321_Dancing_Stars_Conchita_Wurst_4187.jpg Week 1, Activity 4, David Alaba: (C) Steindy, cleared under Creative Commons Attibution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-SA 3.0)...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Forensic science and fingerprints
Health, Sports & Psychology

Forensic science and fingerprints

...Public Enemy Number One' John Dillinger, attempted to make their fingerprints unrecognisable through self-mutilation. Dillinger had minor plastic surgery to change his appearance and probably at the same time had his finger tips scarred. Sadly for him, enough of his fingerprints remained to enable him to be identified from his fingerprints held on file. Activity 1:...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs