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Download our Chinese characters learning apps

...write, recognise visually and aurally, and memorise some of the most frequently used characters in a systematic, friendly and fun way. Most importantly it helps you to form phrases and sentences with the limited characters learnt. For information on how to download the app, click here or on the image below. [A picture of a dragon.] This app contains the first 200 plus...

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Money & Business

Sustainable Design – Innovative design techniques

...creativity and innovation. Designers have a tremendous opportunity to influence the sustainability of what they create, with 80% of a product’s environmental impacts determined at the design stage. Whether it’s material choices, manufacturing processes or product durability, these decisions present exciting opportunities to develop products incorporating not only...

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Science, Maths & Technology

Design and Designing

...crating and outlining to draw a children's toy. Sketching to communicate How sketches can be used to communicate instructions or information. Folding bike re-invented The creative process that led to the design of the Strida bike. Refining the design The importance of teamwork when refining a design. The value of sketching Sketching as a trigger for creative design....

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History & The Arts

Exploring the history of prisoner education

...write some brief notes about the ideas being presented. You will return to these later in the session. [GENTLE MUSIC] ROSALIND CRONE This is Lincoln Castle, a fortress built in the wake of the Norman invasion of England in the 11th Century. Its construction included a dungeon just underneath me, where enemies of the crown were imprisoned. From about the 14th century, a...

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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs

Languages

How to learn a language

...Writing is a creative process and because you don’t have the pressure of time to reply as you do with oral communication, you can easily reflect on what you’ve written and expand it without taking too many risks. Watch this video about expanding your writing. FERNANDO Let's look at this short sentence. I live in a house. Now if you had written this, you may want to...

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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs

Education & Development

Effective note taking

...writing, note taking helps you extend your attention span. Why are you making notes? Ask yourself – what do I already know about the subject? What additional information do I need? What questions do I want to answer? Listen carefully to the start of a lecture to establish the structure of the session. Listen for ‘signposts’ e.g., ‘there are three key points’,...

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Video 5 mins

Education & Development

Assessment in secondary mathematics

...write these numbers in order, smallest first: 0.7, 0.3 and 0.36 on mini-whiteboards. You will find that the three most common responses are: 0.3, 0.36, 0.7 (correct) 0.3, 0.7, 0.36 (student ignores decimal point) 0.36, 0.7, 0.3 (student may think that the largest number after the decimal point gives the smallest decimal). Students could well offer other answers, for a...

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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs

OpenLearn Ireland

Hardboiled Blues: Rory Gallagher’s Blues Lyrics Revisited

...writing set in an urban environment full of corruption and deceit. Hardboiled fiction was typically narrated by an imperfect hero – often an emotionally resilient, hard-drinking private detective – who lived by his wits rather than seeking rational solutions. Standing in direct contrast to traditional detectives like Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot, hardboiled...

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