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Extending and developing your thinking skills
Education & Development

Extending and developing your thinking skills

...World War, you might ask the following questions. Knowledge - What was the Second World War? When was it? Where was it? Who started it? Analysis - Why did it happen? Synthesis - How did the different decisions and events combine to produce this historical event? Evaluation - How reasonable was the original decision to declare war? Was the dropping of nuclear bombs on...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Understanding depression and anxiety
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding depression and anxiety

...heritage, and goes on to consider how we might recognise emotional disorders, together with some of the problems associated with diagnosis and classification. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course SDK228 The science of the mind: investigating mental health...Understanding depression and anxiety: Learning outcomes - After studying this...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
The science of alcohol Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

The science of alcohol

...world-renowned brewery situated in Oxfordshire that has been run by the same family since 1849. Cotsworld Distillery: a craft distillery situated in the North Cotswolds producing English whisky, small batch gin and other liquers. CAMRA: founded in 1971 and with over 188,000 members, the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) is a non-proft consumer body who tirelessly promote...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Education & Development

Teaching and learning tricky topics

...world around them. Sometimes these beliefs are mistaken, yet they are so engrained that students may not even realise they are making them. These intuitive beliefs may therefore persist until they clash with new knowledge. At this point, students need to identify and ‘unlearn’ these intuitive beliefs in order to assimilate the new knowledge. Intuitive beliefs lie at...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Brighton Pavilion
History & The Arts

Brighton Pavilion

...World (1762), took as its central figure a Chinese philosophic gentleman residing in London writing home in some bewilderment at the habits of the natives, and why Voltaire took the view that China was a sophisticated land of admirable stability peopled by philosophes. The connotations of China in the prince's day were, in short, those of luxury, gaiety and the trappings...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Eutrophication
Nature & Environment

Eutrophication

...world’s largest lakes and used to support diverse communities of species endemic to the lake (i.e. species that are found only there), but it now suffers from frequent fish kills caused by episodes of deoxygenation. In the 1960s deoxygenation was limited to certain areas of the lake, but it is now widespread. It is usually associated with at least a tenfold increase in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Teaching Spanish pronunciation
Languages

Teaching Spanish pronunciation

...is that while Spanish vowels are fairly consistent across the Spanish-speaking world, there are considerable differences in the pronunciation of vowels among English varieties, even within the United Kingdom. Ideas for exercises Analyse the difference between the following quadruplet: pase – pasé – pasee – paseé. Depending on the level, you can ask your students to find word pairs that differ only in the identical ......
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Physical activity for health and wellbeing in the caring role
Health, Sports & Psychology

Physical activity for health and wellbeing in the caring role

...World Health Organisation (WHO, 2020) posits that physical activity refers to all movement including during leisure time, for transport to get to and from places, or as part of a person’s work. To break this down further, Biddle et al. (2021, p.20) cite the seminal work of Caspersen et al. (1985) who define physical activity in terms of three elements: movement of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs