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Open education
Education & Development

Open education

...Le Cornu (2011) define them as: Visitors understand the web as akin to an untidy garden tool shed. They have defined a goal or task and go into the shed to select an appropriate tool which they use to attain their goal. Task over, the tool is returned to the shed. Residents, on the other hand, see the web as a place, perhaps like a park or a building, in which there are...
Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs
Exploring cells with digital fluorescence microscopy
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring cells with digital fluorescence microscopy

...LE, Oorschot V, Klumperman J, Petrescu SM, et al. (2012) AP-3 and Rabip4’ Coordinately Regulate Spatial Distribution of Lysosomes, PLoS ONE, 7(10): e48142. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0048142., Reproduced under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License Figure 6: © Woravit Vijitpanya | Dreamstime.com Figure 8: (c) Dr Gopal Murti/Science Photo...
Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...articulated by David Cameron and Nick Clegg whose developmental and professional trajectories, life chances and opportunities of social advancement were the result of who their parents were in terms of their capacity to access and use resources and networks and offer a privileged upbringing to them. Such attempts to diminish the impact of privilege and deny role of social...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Technology, innovation and management
Money & Business

Technology, innovation and management

...articulated by the pharmaceutical companies is that antibiotics are less profitable than other forms of drugs; a good antibiotic would only need to be used for short periods, resistant bacteria are still relatively rare (and hence the market for new, expensive antibiotics is small) and are mainly in the developing world (The Economist, 2011). Much of pharmaceutical...
Dutch painting of the Golden Age
History & The Arts

Dutch painting of the Golden Age

...Les Maîtres d’autrefois (The Masters of Past Time) in 1876. Under the slogan ‘a new state and a new art’, Fromentin celebrated the emergence of ‘a national and free school of painting’, which liberated itself from foreign models and ‘ceased to borrow from Italy its style and poetry, its taste for history, for mythology and for the Christian legends’...
Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Taking your first steps into higher education Badge icon
Education & Development

Taking your first steps into higher education

...articulate young woman with obvious potential, still hanging on at college, but she has a part-time job in a shop that pays so badly it faces her already with the futility of her life. […] Just across the road, hope is in plentiful supply among the Confinos, both parents and children. They are driven by the pursuit of happiness – not the desire for material things....
An introduction to interaction design
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to interaction design

...articulate and evaluate their understanding. Design is often collaborative, and exploring different design choices through sketches and prototypes can help the team verify their collective understanding of the design context and how different requirements might be interpreted. Investigating requirements: sketches and prototypes also allow designers to investigate...
Exploring sport coaching and psychology Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring sport coaching and psychology

...articulate what these terms, or their own versions of them, mean. Activity 2 What is this thing called mental toughness? Timing: Allow about 20 minutes This activity (which takes its name from Jones’ 2002 article on mental toughness) introduces you to sports psychologist Peter Clough, who explains why ‘mental toughness’ is important for school children to master for...