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Education & Development

Teaching and learning tricky topics

...multiple choice answer, but without the deep understanding that would enable them to answer more probing exam questions. Some concepts regularly cause problems of understanding and can inhibit student progression in a subject, sometimes causing students to give up the subject altogether. Such concepts have been referred to in the literature as threshold concepts....
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Reading for pleasure: exploring the concept
Education & Development

Reading for pleasure: exploring the concept

...multiple interpretations and can create confusion for educators who work to make all the reading undertaken – in English lessons, in projects and in cross curricula and extra curricula contexts – pleasurable. But in order to foster reading for pleasure in schools, homes and community contexts, conceptual clarity is essential, alongside awareness of the subtle...
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A Europe of the Regions?
Society, Politics & Law

A Europe of the Regions?

...multiplicity of regional groupings and associations reaching across the member states. Thus the ‘Four Motors’ – the ‘bourgeois regionalism’ or ‘high-tech’ association of Baden-Wurttemburg, Lombardy, Rhone-Alpes, Catalonia, and, more recently, Wales – was established in 1989 with encouragement from the EU (see Figure 2 in Section 3.2). It was explicitly...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
An introduction to design engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to design engineering

...multiple problems at the same time to create a complete design – for example, the openings have to be reinforced for strength in storage and transport but also have to be easy to open. A potential solution to one of these conditions might lead to problems with the other, so solving both problems at the same time becomes important. [Described image] Figure 8 Examples of...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Exploring books for children: words and pictures
History & The Arts

Exploring books for children: words and pictures

...multiple choice questions about them. Select the answer for Question 1a here [‘Where’s Spot?’ book cover.] Figure 6 Front cover of Where’s Spot? What age range do you think this book is aimed at? 0–4 5–8 9–12 teenagers other a. 0–4 b. 5–8 c. 9–12 d. teenagers e. other The correct answer is a. Answer The correct answer is 0–4. Select the answer for...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Mental health in society
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mental health in society

...multiple perspectives will provide a more complete picture of a person’s mental health. Both perspectives bring something important to the overall picture. It is important to clarify that adopting or using a particular perspective is not the same as saying that you have discovered ‘the truth’ about mental health or that other perspectives are necessarily wrong. At...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows
Nature & Environment

Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows

...multiplication 10 multiplication 10 multiplication 10 equals 0.0001 So how would you write the number 150 using powers of 10? The number 150 is 1.5 × 10 × 10, so would be written 1.5 × 102. This form of writing numbers is known as scientific notation. A number written in scientific notation always looks like this: (number between 1 and 10) × 10some power. This...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Critical criminology and the social sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Critical criminology and the social sciences

...multiple disciplines to understand and resolve them. I'm a professor of organisational behaviour who does research on the financial behaviour and decision making of both professionals, such as investment bank traders, and the rest of us in the everyday world. Organisational behaviour, at least as I practise it, draws on insights from psychology, sociology, and economics,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs