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Microbes – friend or foe?
Nature & Environment

Microbes – friend or foe?

...system into thinking it is part of the human body and preventing it being destroyed. About one-fifth of the population have Strep. pneumoniae in their body and it too can produce a surface layer that allows it to evade the immune system. A commensal species can cause an infection if its growth becomes out of balance with the rest of the natural microbial population in the...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
More or Less: interview with Tim Harford
Science, Maths & Technology

More or Less: interview with Tim Harford

...think that was eight years ago now. And I’d like to start off by perhaps reviewing what’s changed in the world of numbers since you began. One thing that occurred to me is I don’t think you’re picking up as many journalistic statistical mistakes as often as you did, would you agree? TIM HARFORD: It’s interesting you say that, Kevin. I hadn’t noticed that. But...
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Audio 20 mins
Creating open educational resources
Education & Development

Creating open educational resources

...thinking about the wide range of themes, tools and resources available to those who wish to engage with OER. The quiz consists of a range of multiple choice and free text questions. The quiz should take between 30 and 45 minutes to complete...Creating open educational resources: Round 1: Images - Identify the Creative Commons licences Question 1 What does the Creative...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Teaching secondary geography
Education & Development

Teaching secondary geography

...thinking. Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy (Figure 4) is a system for classifying levels of learning behaviour. ‘Creating’ is at the top of the classification. The intentional use of verbs in the classification highlights our understanding of learning as being an active process (Tarlinton, 2003). Creativity is a process and you can’t be creative if you don’t do...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Language in the real world
Languages

Language in the real world

...systems of sound (phonology), word formation (morphology and lexis) and grammar, and the ways in which these encode meaning are within the remit of linguistics both in relation to specific languages and in relation to commonalities across languages. But linguistics is also concerned with how these systems are learned, how they are used in producing and understanding...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
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Money & Business

Risk management

...thinking: high-hazard systems normally have several controls and care is taken to make sure these controls cannot be circumvented by a ‘common mode of failure’ controls that rely on people are normally the least effective controls that are directive should not be the sole prevention for high-impact risks...Session 8: Risk specialisms: 3 Project risk management - Much...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The pensions timebomb
Society, Politics & Law

The pensions timebomb

...system. Have the public lost faith in occupational and private pensions? Should the state pension be enough to see us through our old age? And with the non-working to working ratio continuing to rapidly increase, who will pay? We hear from those that were directly affected by the scandals of the 90's and the collapse in private pensions since - and from the experts whose...
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Audio 46 mins
Introducing the philosophy of religion
History & The Arts

Introducing the philosophy of religion

...think about the difference between philosophical and non-philosophical questions about religion; and look at the often-discussed question of whether argument and evidence are even possible when we are thinking about religion. Then we will note the variety of possible ways of arguing for or against God’s existence; distinguish three different arguments; and describe and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs