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Reimagining professional learning: conversations across perspectives
Education & Development

Reimagining professional learning: conversations across perspectives

...et al., 2023). ‘Practicescapes’ (Costello et al. 2024) describe speculative approaches where practitioners explore possibilities through generative, poetic methods creating conditions for thinking differently by unsettling habitual patterns and opening space for possibility. Going further, imagining vibrant ecologies of professional learning (Jackson, 2019) invites a...
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Data analysis and interpretation
Education & Development

Data analysis and interpretation

...et al., 2022). Alternatively, researchers could reflect on their analysis and discuss as a limitation of the study not having included participants’ perspectives in such direct manner. Lucy Yardley (2017) suggested that researchers must show sensitivity to the data to achieve high standards in qualitative research and generate useful knowledge. She offers the example of...
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Understanding musical scores
History & The Arts

Understanding musical scores

...sang really wanted to set their music down in precise ways. And when they had several voices singing different things and they wanted to get the rhythmic integration of those voices, they needed a much more precise way of notating rhythm. And we have here examples of note shapes and groups of notes grouped into what we call ligatures-- which is, in its own way, a kind of...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Supporting university students with a mental health condition
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting university students with a mental health condition

...et al. (2025) suggest that the growing prevalence is a long-term problem and global issue, pre-dating but amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic and cost-of-living crisis. Not only does poor mental health impact students’ overall wellbeing, but there also is growing evidence that mental health difficulties have significant negative impacts on students’ attainment,...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past

...circulated from the seventeenth century onwards, in all kinds of formats – large and small, expensive and cheap. But how exactly did people read this most important of all books? And what impact did Bible reading have on them? There are many records in the UK RED site of Bible reading – nearly 1000 in total, and the number grows all the time. These enable us to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
How to compare income across countries
Science, Maths & Technology

How to compare income across countries

...doubled the value. On a logarithmic scale, the distance in cm along the axis between consecutively doubled values would be the same, irrespective of whether we double the actual values from 2 to 4 or 1 million to 2 million. That is, items the same distance apart on a logarithmic scale are related by the same ratio. For this reason, a logarithmic scale is sometimes also...
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Emotions and emotional disorders
Health, Sports & Psychology

Emotions and emotional disorders

...et al., 2009). Of these, depression and anxiety (or a mix of the two, called ‘mixed anxiety and depression’ or MAD) were by far the most common, as Figure 1 shows. Note that the term prevalence is a scientific term that refers to the number of people experiencing a disorder or illness at a particular time. [Described image] Figure 1 Prevalence rates in England in 2007...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Climate threat as grave a risk as nuclear war - Climate News Network
Nature & Environment

Climate threat as grave a risk as nuclear war - Climate News Network

...double the number of people living below a threshold of extreme water shortage by mid-century. Sea level thresholds Coastal cities, according to the report, probably have thresholds in terms of the rate and extent of sea level rise that they can deal with, but we have very little idea where those thresholds are. The authors say that even the 0.8°C of climate change...
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