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Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin
History & The Arts

Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin

...writing literature (which is not true of every language). This pushed them in novel and interesting directions, allowing them to express new ideas with freshly minted words or with existing words endowed with new meanings. We catch sight of this process in the development of Latin as a philosophical language. The responsibility for this lies primarily with Cicero, who has...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Studying mammals: The insect hunters
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The insect hunters

...write down accounts of evolution that do not assume purpose or direction...Studying mammals: The insect hunters: 1 Meeting the insect eaters - As you work through this course you will come across boxes, like this one, which give you advice about the study skills that you will be developing as you progress through the course. To avoid breaking up the flow of the text, they...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision

...write the programme that I wanted to do and there aren’t many places that will let you do that, they always want to line you up and put you in boxes very early on and I just knew what I wanted to do, which was to look actually at television and see what television had to say about the natural world. Documentaries I’m most proud of Well there’d be a number of...
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Video 30 mins
An introduction to music theory
History & The Arts

An introduction to music theory

...write the lowest note on the violin, the lower G on the top staff in Example 8, you would need the G that sits below the upper staff and has two ledger lines. The concept of ledger lines can also be applied at the top of the treble staff and at the bottom of the bass staff (Example 9). Example 9 However, the more ledger lines you use, the more difficult it is to read the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Egyptian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Egyptian mathematics

...writing on papyri. Later still, there developed a cursive, everyday script called demotic, that looks like a mad doctor's handwriting at the end of a bad day. Most of the handful of extant mathematical papyri are written in hieratic. Because of the great variability of hieratic and demotic in the hands of different scribes, Egyptologists habitually transcribe all texts...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Mary Colwell - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Mary Colwell - Earth in Vision

...writing in saying, ‘Why isn’t this put on at prime time, why is it tucked away at some really late time?’ And from public talks I give, people want to know about what’s happening in the world, so it’s only my personal ideas, but I think people really are interested in environmental issues. Has natural history broadcasting fully covered the global decline in...
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Video 20 mins
Teaching mathematics Badge icon
Education & Development

Teaching mathematics

...write down a method of arithmetic for a calculation they can do in their head. Nor should they have to: mental calculation is a perfectly good way of working out the answers to number questions, so encourage its use...Week 1: Teaching and learning: whole numbers and decimals: 3 Developing formal written calculation methods - This course mainly focuses on teaching children...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
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Education & Development

Becoming an ethical researcher

...writing foundation, and when I say our, I'm referring to the University of Exeter, because the Open University and Exeter University, we did it together alongside Arvon and funded by the Arts Council England, actually, a research team. And our project took as a starting point a writing residential course to teachers, which now I've been running for many years, which sort...
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Level 3: Advanced 18 hrs