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Seeing the light
Science, Maths & Technology

Seeing the light

...world objects, illustrations are used in technology courses to explain those objects, and also to help you to ‘visualise’ the ideas connected with those objects...Seeing the light: Your home’s orientation - Activity 12 Your home’s orientation Timing: Allow about 1 hour The purpose of this activity is to help you to work out how well the place where you live has...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Beginners’ Spanish: food and drink
Languages

Beginners’ Spanish: food and drink

...world first? Answer It is enormous - the biggest fresh food market in Europe. Fruit, vegetables, fish, seafood, meat, charcuterie, spices, nuts, flowers. Because there is more variety, the produce is fresher and the prices are cheaper. It was the first market to use online ordering. Skills: Listening to longer extracts Listening to longer authentic recordings is a good...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Accessibility and inclusion in digital health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Accessibility and inclusion in digital health

...world. This development was valuable to health systems in many countries and helped them better deal with the needs and preferences of an ageing population. Thanks to their experience in elder care, culturally competent robots also proved useful in education, transportation, and tourism. If today's robots look much more at ease with humans, seem more perceptive, and...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Babylonian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Babylonian mathematics

...world, than have been translated or even catalogued. It is only a small proportion of these that have been shown to have mathematical content, perhaps five hundred or so, compared with the several hundred thousand extant tablets. The results of studying these emerged in the 1920s and 1930s, and led to a considerable re-evaluation of the Babylonians, who within a decade...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Textiles in Ghana
History & The Arts

Textiles in Ghana

...world, so he had no access to the variety of colours that we have today. We are told it was when the, the Gold Coast, then Gold Coast, weaver was in touch with the Europeans and so, certain material that they started to unravel, the Europeans, and started using, what they call silk. I’m not very certain whether it was pure silk or not. Well, as far as I am concerned,...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Digital innovation in social care and social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Digital innovation in social care and social work

...world of growing inequalities and uncertainties, technology can be a source of empowerment, enabling children to become the authors of their futures and to rise above the cycle of disadvantage. (Third et al., 2017, p. 3) In the activity below, you will learn about Aye Mind, a project in Scotland designed to use the internet, social media and mobile technologies to support...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Learning to teach: mentoring and tutoring student teachers
Education & Development

Learning to teach: mentoring and tutoring student teachers

...world) as a dynamic phenomenon (including schools, curricula, pedagogy and education research). This could involve: drawing on literature that challenges the practice being observed ensuring the student is aware of developments within the subject challenging student teachers assumptions about learning in the subject. Student teachers also need be aware that the knowledge...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing
Money & Business

Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing

...world products or inventions, but actually I think there are many different ways to look at that. And some of them, like Uber for example, or Deliveroo, or Airbnb, they’ve kind of come in to genuinely disrupt existing markets, like transport, eating out, and accommodation. And these are all platform-based ones so they’re clever. And they’ve been driven by what’s...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs