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Health and safety in the laboratory and field
Science, Maths & Technology

Health and safety in the laboratory and field

...attention if necessary, or ask a field companion to help. If self-treating, use tweezers hooked under the tick's body, taking care not to pull off the tick's body and leave the head embedded.DO NOT use petroleum jelly, any liquid solutions, or freeze/burn the tick, as this will stimulate it to regurgitate its stomach contents, increasing the chance of infection. Most tick...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Supporting climate action through digital education
Education & Development

Supporting climate action through digital education

...attention and leaving educators and learners poorly equipped to address the climate emergency. Teachers, teacher educators and young people would like to see a curriculum where there’s space to learn for the environment, and provide people with skills so they can act for the environment (Dunlop and Rushton, 2022). Having the relevant skills and knowledge does not mean...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Jack Perks - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Jack Perks - Earth in Vision

...attentions for three years, if nothing else (as well as learning basic camera techniques). But then after that, I was kind of being let loose into the wild, so to speak. It’s kind of funny, my original plan was just to do retail, save some money up, and buy a camera. But it turned out, that where I’d planned to go they didn’t want me . So I had to go early...
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Video 30 mins
James Smith - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

James Smith - Earth in Vision

...attention. I think perhaps sometimes with those kinds of stories you can reach a wider audience… sometimes with those kinds of stories you reach a wider audience but perhaps the message is somewhat diluted. I don’t know. It’s difficult. It’s … yeah, I don’t know. Some films do punch through, so The End of the Line, who’d have thought that would have been...
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Video 30 mins
Teaching citizenship: work and the economy
Education & Development

Teaching citizenship: work and the economy

...attention to: the way contemporary child labour has a historical antecedent, and that attitudes and values change through time, so that ‘ethical’ considerations are not fixed for all time; that legislative reform has been crucial to the development of the ‘working citizen’; that the notion of the ‘working citizen’ (or perhaps better expressed as ‘citizen at...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)
Education & Development

An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)

...attention on improving the course. Speaker 5 I’d like your permission to record this session with our camera – Candace Thille The fourth feedback loop is to the science of learning. How did we figure out how to design effective learning environments to support students and give them feedback? That's based on a huge body of work that’s been going on for years in the...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Drug development process: combating pain
Science, Maths & Technology

Drug development process: combating pain

...attention has been paid to addressing the problems of attrition at an earlier stage in the discovery process and moving the focus of research away from a strategy based purely on potency against the isolated target protein. It begins with practical, multidisciplinary, laboratory work leading to the identification of candidate molecules that are evaluated in large...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Nuclear power: friend or foe?
Society, Politics & Law

Nuclear power: friend or foe?

...attention and resources from renewables and energy efficiency, which can contribute far more to carbon reduction. New nuclear stations will not be ready in time to plug the energy gap but will lock us in to an inflexible form of power supply for sixty years or more. Nuclear power stations and waste management facilities create fear, anxiety and blight among the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs