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Why not ‘World Religions’?
History & The Arts

Why not ‘World Religions’?

...podcasts on the World Religions Paradigm and how we might teach and learn After World Religions. You can check out our OpenLearn short course Census stories: bringing statistics to life in Milton Keynes for how to teach about lived religious diversity without relying on the ‘World Religions’ model...Why not ‘World Religions’?: Acknowledgements - This free course...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Happy birthday Shakespeare!
History & The Arts

Happy birthday Shakespeare!

...podcast Midsummer Nights Dream: Love and Feminism and rediscover The Taming of the Shrew, the play that became a template for all the “battle of the sexes” comedies to follow. Transcript Narrator The year is 1599. William Shakespeare is at the palace of Queen Elizabeth I of England. The Queen has ordered Shakespeare to write another play. Queen Elizabeth I Mr...
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Article 3 hrs
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Languages

How to learn a language

...podcasts, websites, and apps, including well-known providers such as Duolingo or Busuu, to name but two. Some of these also offer opportunities for interaction with other students and native speakers, as well as support from communities of learners. Many of these offer some content for free, but require a subscription to access full content. The second main group of...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
A brief history of evolution
History & The Arts

A brief history of evolution

...mathematical arguments to support natural selection and contributed to the downfall of mutationism. They also provided a theoretical framework for the integration of genetics into Darwin's theory of natural selection. In 1937 Theodosius Dobzhansky published Genetics and the Origin of Species, which combined Darwinian natural selection and Mendelian genetics. This led...
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Article 30 mins
Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages

...mathematics assessment’, in Mathematical Science Education Board/National Research Council (eds) Measuring What Counts: a Conceptual Guide for Mathematics Assessment, Washington, DC, National Academies Press, pp. 201–23. Teachers TV (2011) ‘Secondary assessment for learning - modern foreign languages’, Promethean Planet, 20 October [Online]. Available at...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Exploring depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring depression

...podcast below and consider the questions that follow. You might wish to listen to the entire recording first and review this again thinking specifically about the questions the second time around. Alternatively, you can consider the questions as you listen to the recording the first time around. Choose whichever approach suits you best. Pauline: There were a lot of...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Understanding Alice
History & The Arts

Understanding Alice

...mathematics, had recently commissioned a window in the saint’s honour for the college chapel. No doubt the Liddell sisters shared the fictional Alice’s perplexity at the idea of a well filled with treacle. Puzzles and privacy As the Dormouse’s tale illustrates, much of the personal content of the story is disguised through the use of puzzles, riddles, puns, and what...
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Article 10 mins
Dr Jean-Francois Soussana - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Dr Jean-Francois Soussana - Stories of Change

...mathematical modelling approaches to the impacts of climate change on agro-ecosystems and food supply and to the role of agricultural management and biodiversity for the carbon and nitrogen cycles and for greenhouse gas emissions. © The Open University Transcript Stories of Change Jean Francois Soussana interview Key RH: = Roger Harrabin, interviewer JFS: = Jean Francois...
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Audio 5 mins