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Learning to teach: an introduction to classroom research
Education & Development

Learning to teach: an introduction to classroom research

...de-motivating, or it might be something more general like how to organise group work effectively. Define the purpose and clarify what form the intervention might take. This will involve consulting the literature and finding out what is already known about this issue. Plan an intervention designed to tackle the issue. Collect empirical data and analyse it Plan another...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Introducing the Classical world
History & The Arts

Introducing the Classical world

...de Sélincourt) So even in the fifth century BCE, history was as much about belief as about truth. You will read several ancient historians during your study of the Classical world. To explore the question of what they thought it meant to write history is immensely rewarding. The downside is that historiography is no more straightforward a source than any other. As you...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Partnerships and networks in work with young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Partnerships and networks in work with young people

...DES, 1982, p. 122) What is different now is the emphasis that recent governments have placed on the development of partnership working, particularly in relation to the delivery of public services. Policy during the years of the Labour Government of 1997–2010 had a strong focus on joint working between agencies and on partnership across a wide range of public policy,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Machines, minds and computers
Digital & Computing

Machines, minds and computers

...de Cervantes's hero Don Quixote and his squire Sancho Panza encounter one: The last questioner was Sancho, and his questions were, 'Head, shall I by any chance have another government? Shall I ever escape from the hard life of a squire? Shall I get back to see my wife and children?' To which the answer came, Thou shalt govern in thy house; and if thou returnest to it thou...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin
History & The Arts

Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin

...De re publica) and ‘On Laws’ (De legibus), inspired by Plato’s similarly named Republic and Laws, along with a great deal of new technical vocabulary for expressing philosophical ideas which until that point could only be expressed satisfactorily in Greek. Much of this work took place in a short burst of productivity during the years 45 and 44 BCE. We can only...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship
Money & Business

First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship

...De Soto, President, Institute for Liberty and Democracy, Peru. HERNANDO DE SOTO: There is never enough money to alleviate poverty. There’s just not enough in the world. People will end up creating their own wealth the same way Europeans created their own wealth. Nobody came and aided you, you had to create it yourself. That’s the only sure way to do it. NARRATOR: Many...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Race and Youth Policy: working with young people
Education & Development

Race and Youth Policy: working with young people

...de St Croix, 2011, p. 49–50). The young of this country are as passionate and idealistic as any before. Perhaps more passionate. They march against poverty, they set up online campaigns, they push their parents to recycle and they care deeply about climate change. But too many of our young people appear lost. Their lives lack shape or any sense of direction. So they...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...systems for managing change. You were introduced there to a distinction from De Laat and Simons (2002) between learning in social interactions (where the learning process happens within a social context, but the outcome is an individual one) and collective learning (where both the learning process and outcome take a social form). The PFMS heuristic was used to look at the ways in which you can orchestrate systemic ......
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs