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Getting started with French 1
Languages

Getting started with French 1

...world, in any time zone, whatever your motivation – leisure, professional development or academic. It’s the one stop shop for engaging with languages, professional communication and intercultural dialogue. Our short courses allow us to be agile and responsive to the needs of learners who want to be part of a global society. We offer non-accredited short courses in a...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?

...world views can influence our practices and our capacity to collaborate. Read the following pdf which is an extract taken from Waitoller, F. R., & Kozleski, E. B. (2013) ‘Working in boundary practices: Identity development and learning in partnerships for inclusive education’, Teaching and Teacher Education, 31, pp. 25–45. (Sections 3.3–3.6 – pp. 19–29.) In...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Astronomy with an online telescope Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Astronomy with an online telescope

...world at the Observatorio del Teide in Tenerife. Dr Miquel Serra-Ricart, an astronomer from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and administrator of the Teide observatory, gives an introduction to the site and to the various telescopes and facilities there. NARRATOR: The Teide Observatory belongs to Canarian Observatories and managed by the Institute Office of...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Fundamentals of accounting
Money & Business

Fundamentals of accounting

...world, the assumption is that we use calculators to save the tedious process of working out calculations by hand or mentally. The danger, of course, is that you may use a calculator without understanding what an answer means or how it relates to the numbers operated upon. For example, if you calculate that 8% of £20 is £160 (which can easily happen if either you forget...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Mark Twain on whether Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare
History & The Arts

Mark Twain on whether Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare

...world to ennoble them with a title of its own choosing. Now and then when Ealer had to stop to cough, I pulled my induction-talents together and hove the controversial lead myself: always getting eight feet, eight and a half, often nine, sometimes even quarter-less-twain--as _I_ believed; but always "no bottom," as HE said. I got the best of him only once. I prepared...
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Article 5 mins
Lawrence Breen - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Lawrence Breen - Earth in Vision

...world?’ What technology would enable valuable archive to be made available to the public? A digital water-marker, a very discreet digital water-marker would allow anyone to know who shot what, where, when. So basically it would be embedded in the picture no matter how you use the picture, it would still be part of the picture, because then you’d have that, I don’t...
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Video 20 mins
Living History: Life as a Railway Worker During the 2020–21 COVID-19 Global Pandemic
Society, Politics & Law

Living History: Life as a Railway Worker During the 2020–21 COVID-19 Global Pandemic

...World It is anticipated that it may take many years for the railway industry to recover from the effects of COVID-19. There may never be a return to the normal peak morning and afternoon travelling numbers. Many companies may choose to continue to have at least a proportion of their employees work from home, so the normal sight of commuters flooding the stations and...
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Article 10 mins
What can Earth tell us about Mars?
Science, Maths & Technology

What can Earth tell us about Mars?

...world. However, we also perform simulations with a continuous culture set up that uses flowing water to replenish nutrients and remove waste materials, cells, and so on. This is much closer to what we observe in lake systems in nature. We use a range of media that are each suitable for slightly different microbes, working towards isolating interesting microbes into a pure...
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Article 10 mins