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Influenza: A case study
Science, Maths & Technology

Influenza: A case study

...artificial media. Moreover, at that time no-one knew what a virus was, and everyone was thinking in terms of bacterial causes for infectious diseases. Although the precise role of H. influenzae in the 1890 and 1918 flu pandemics is not clear, it is likely that the bacteria were present and acting in concert with the flu virus to produce the pneumonia experienced. Such...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Leo Tolstoy on King Lear
History & The Arts

Leo Tolstoy on King Lear

...intelligence, he dispatches the gentleman to Dover to meet Cordelia. The second scene of the third act also takes place on the heath, but in another part of it. Lear walks about the heath and says words which are meant to express his despair: he desires that the winds should blow so hard that they should crack their cheeks and that the rain should flood everything, that...
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Article 15 mins
Library of Alexandria
History & The Arts

Library of Alexandria

...artificial mount, raised one hundred steps above the level of the adjacent parts of the city; and the interior cavity was strongly supported by arches, and distributed into [p. 563] vaults and subterraneous apartments. The consecrated buildings were surrounded by a quadrangular portico; the stately halls, and exquisite statues, displayed the triumph of the arts; and the...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Advanced French: At the science museum in Paris
Languages

Advanced French: At the science museum in Paris

...intelligence. De manière aiguë, elle mobilise du sens. Selon la manière dont il vivra cette expérience, il peut en retirer une profonde jubilation, ou la souffrance de se percevoir « inapte ». » En maths, et ailleurs dans la vie. Stella Baruk a développé sa méthode d’enseignement sur une pédagogie de l’erreur. Trop souvent taxée d’horreur, dénoncée en...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Exploring innovative assessment methods
Education & Development

Exploring innovative assessment methods

...intelligence types. In the following activity you’ll watch a video in which he asks what education actually does for learners. [A photo of Albert Einstein with a quote by him next to it. The quote reads: ‘Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid.’] Figure 3 Albert Einstein’s...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Philosophy: the nature of persons
History & The Arts

Philosophy: the nature of persons

...intelligent life on other planets. If there are such beings they might very well be persons although it is very unlikely that they would be human beings. This course is concerned with the use of ‘person’ that is not equivalent to ‘human being’. Arguably, there are human beings that are not persons (those in a persistent vegetative state). There might also be...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Lead and manage change in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lead and manage change in health and social care

...intelligence around the table, to get it all together. This is going to be a living document. It’s a bit like a strategic plan. It’s a living document. It’s going to be there. And it nearly needs to be our handbook to help us. Narrator For the first part of the meeting, Vivian sets the managers the task of making notes about their specific responsibilities. She’s...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Harry Marshall - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Harry Marshall - Earth in Vision

...artificial glaciers by diverting streams and using spare tyres to create new frozen areas so there can be water in the summer. I mean these are fairly low-tech answers and I think if individuals can do enough to bring about change, just what would be possible if, at a governmental level, change was absolutely required, as I think it will be. Then the inventiveness of the...
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Video 30 mins