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Teaching and learning tricky topics Badge icon
Education & Development

Teaching and learning tricky topics

...et al., 2011, Lucas and Mladenovic, 2007). Threshold concepts focus on the cognitive (thinking) domain of learning rather than the affective (feelings, moods and emotions) or behavioural (physical/kinaesthetic) domains of learning (see Bloom’s (1956) characterisation of learning)...Week 1 Tricky topics and threshold concepts: 1.1 Why do misunderstandings occur in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment
Society, Politics & Law

Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment

...et al., 2019) Figure 2: Declines in labour share across advanced economies have been widespread but not uniform Activity 2: The distribution of income between workers and firms Timing: 3 minutes What does the figure tell you about the proportion of national income held by workers? What can we extrapolate about the share held by entrepreneurs and shareholders? Discussion...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
The Byzantine icon
History & The Arts

The Byzantine icon

...les rapports de l’art Vénitiens avec l’art Crétois jusqu’à 1500’, in A. Pertusi (ed.) Venezia e il Levante fino al secolo XV, vol. 2 (Florence), p. 69–124. Chatzidakis, M. (1974b) ‘Les débuts de l’école Crétoise et la question de l’école dite Italogreque’, in Μνημόσυνον Σ. Αντωνιάδη (Venice), p. 169–211. Chaztidakis, M....
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks
History & The Arts

Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks

...mode of construction could have succeeded so well, and I had reserved my principal hopes for the new ones. But since these have already been so successful, and that the others are even more precise, I feel entitled to believe that the discovery of true longitude will shortly reach its final perfection. . . . The pendulum clocks are a success. The Estates General want to...
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Drug development process: combating pain
Science, Maths & Technology

Drug development process: combating pain

...mode of action but a diverse range of molecular structures, have come to be classified as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). This classification clearly distinguishes them from corticosteroids, the other major class of anti-inflammatory drugs that has already been studied. Regardless of the type of drug taken or the illness being treated, all
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Level 3: Advanced 2 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...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Addressing ethical issues in your research proposal
Education & Development

Addressing ethical issues in your research proposal

...et al, 2018) A fuller discussion of ethical principles is available from the British Psychological Society’s Code of Human Research Ethics (BPS, 2021). You can also refer to guidance from the British Educational Research Association and the British Association for Applied Linguistics. [Pebbles balance on a stone see-saw] Ethical principles are essential for protecting...
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Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)
Education & Development

Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)

...et al., (1999) noted that the Salamanca Statement and other United Nations proclamations have had a ‘powerful influence’ on international perspectives on inclusion. Twenty years later, a complete issue of the International Journal of Inclusive Education (2019, Issue 23, p. 7–8) was devoted to articles about the Salamanca Statement 25 years on, and a recent study by...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs