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Assessment in secondary geography
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary geography

...University short courses for teachers and student teachers...Assessment in secondary geography: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: articulate what it means to make progress in geography outline a framework for assessing progress in geography outline the differences between formative and summative assessment explain some of the...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations
History & The Arts

Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations

...University Press, ed. M. Cardwell with an introduction by K. Flint). You may be reading a different version of the book, so the references will not be the same. However, they will give you an idea as to where to find the sections mentioned. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 2 study in Arts and Humanities...Approaching literature: Reading Great Expectations:...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Introducing the Classical world
History & The Arts

Introducing the Classical world

...University course from which this OpenLearn course is derived. Although some of what is noted in the attached video footage is only dealt with in detail within the OU course, viewing it should prepare you for your work in this course. It should also whet your appetite for further studies in this fascinating area! Activity 1 Watch the video clips below. Click below to view...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Systems thinking and practice
Digital & Computing

Systems thinking and practice

...guide to their difference in meaning. Perspective refers to how things look from your current position. Worldview refers to how you see the world, regardless of your current position. People sometimes say ‘if you'd been in my position, you'd have done the same …’ Where this is true – where swapping role, responsibilities, relationships and other circumstances...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
“Pobal Teanga Faoi Bhláth”: why Good Friday Agreement affects the Irish language
Languages

“Pobal Teanga Faoi Bhláth”: why Good Friday Agreement affects the Irish language

...guiding international instrument that would bring lasting change for the Irish language community, the Charter quickly became a ‘here’s what you could have won’ reference document with little to no legal effect in domestic law here. It was no great surprise then that the language re-emerged time and time again in political negotiations as the community continued to...
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Article 5 mins
Surface water
Nature & Environment

Surface water

...universally by industrialized nations, and by the later 20th century, increasingly by developing nations, building bigger and bigger dams. More recently the debate over the environmental impact of big dams and their questionable cost-benefit analysis has been universally recognized. In the 1990s the Narmada scheme caused the World Bank to rethink its policy on financing...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction
History & The Arts

Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction

...University course A893 MA English Literature Part 1....Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction: Introduction - English Literature reached new mass audiences in Britain in the first decades of the twentieth century, as widespread literacy, and a lack of competition from other media – cinema and radio were in their infancy – encouraged commercial...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Population ageing: a global health crisis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Population ageing: a global health crisis?

...University course K242 Ageing societies and global health...Population ageing: a global health crisis?: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: answer the question ‘what is population ageing?’ identify the core components of global health understand how population ageing and increasing life expectancy might be seen as a global health...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs