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Fire ecology
Science, Maths & Technology

Fire ecology

...et al., 2003). [A photo showing the kind of habitat that is typical of mountain Fynbos in the Cape Peninsula in South Africa. There are a number of different species in the foreground and mountains in the background.] Figure 13 Mountain Fynbos of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa. Many of the species typical of the Fynbos have seeds that are triggered to germinate by...
Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction
History & The Arts

Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction

...motives for the killing. Hercule Poirot, the series detective familiar to the reader, is necessarily on hand to assist the police and in the absence of his established sidekick (Captain Hastings), a local doctor – and our narrator – has stepped in as his confidant and assistant. But the unfolding of the narrative and, especially, the revelation of the killer, elevate...
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Education & Development

Take your teaching online

...motivation, helping you to reach the end of the course. Gaining a badge often boosts confidence in the skills and abilities that underpin successful study. So, completing this course should encourage you to think about taking other courses...Take your teaching online: How to get a badge - Getting a badge is straightforward! Here’s what you have to do: read each week of...
Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice
Education & Development

Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice

...et al. (2013) focus on the development of literacy after compulsory education was introduced in many western countries in the late 1800s. These two articles both present views of the historical development of reading and the teaching of reading. Gillen and Hall (2003) trace their narrative forward in a sequential way from the end of the 19th century. Green et al. (2013),...
Teaching secondary mathematics
Education & Development

Teaching secondary mathematics

...motivate your pupils by presenting mathematics as something they can use to solve problems and to create models of reality that can be worked with. I know that you will find it interesting. I hope you find it useful as well. As you work through the activities you will be encouraged to record your thoughts on an idea, an issue or a reading, and how it relates to your...
Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness

...motivation and self-awareness and how this can increase your effectiveness and enhance how you work with others. All this is made possible by some unique film footage of coaches, trainers and instructors at work combined with engaging learning activities that accompany these case studies to benefit both your career and those you work with...Are you experienced in sport or...
Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?

...et al., 2018)...Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?: 3 Benefits of the Body Mass Index - Quantitative research is particularly useful for studying whole populations and identifying general trends and relationships because it makes use of statistical data. The results of large-scale, quantitative studies are frequently summarised in documents like...
Customer Service: Expert's Corner with Professor Sally Dibb
Money & Business

Customer Service: Expert's Corner with Professor Sally Dibb

...motivates us to share our data, whether we are happy to do so in some circumstances but not in others, and whether it depends with whom we are sharing it. One area in which our data is increasingly shared – sometimes without our knowledge – is to support the work of governments and security services to identify and pre-empt security threats. The rise in global unrest,...