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Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...adults. That’s a good number for community culture centre, with activities going on all the time. Quetzaltenango is currently one of the most peaceful cities in Guatemala. But this is a very violent country and the violence is starting to affect us. The crime statistics are growing, they’re not terrible but are constantly increasing. We want these cultural centres to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Napoleonic paintings
History & The Arts

Napoleonic paintings

...adult life she was renowned for her eloquence which is commemorated in Gerard’s portrait. Here her mouth is slightly open as if she is about to speak. And she is holding a sprig of greenery the prop she habitually used for emphasis and conversation. Conversation was one thing for a woman however, and publication quite another. Stael’s father, Jacques Necker, Finance...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...adults and children in a household (adapted from DWP, 2016)...Environment: treading lightly on the Earth: 2.1.2 The effect of incomes and household types - The carbon footprints given in Section 2.1 are averages (means) for a UK inhabitant. But, as mentioned earlier, footprints differ considerably for different individuals and households. A factor which has a major effect...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Teaching assistants: support in action (Chinese)
Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action (Chinese)

...adults who work in their classrooms’, Early Years, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 149–62. Hall, K. and Nuttall, W. (1999) ‘The relative importance of class size to infant teachers in England’, British Educational Research Journal, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 245–58. Hancock, R. (2012) ‘The pastoral pedagogy of teaching assistants’, in Cole, T., Daniels, H. and Visser, J. (eds)...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Creating open educational resources
Education & Development

Creating open educational resources

...adults who may feel have felt in the past that mathematics is not for them. Activity 2 Has your institution been involved in any OER projects? What lessons can you draw on from other projects to inform colleagues and further promote your use of OER? How might you collaborate with other institutions to create and use OER? You can complete this activity in a downloadable...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
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Languages

How to learn a language

...adult, the only way I knew how was to get a textbook and start memorising words. Needless to say, I didn’t learn much at first. Over the years, as I learned more languages, I began to notice new things that worked – often discovering them by accident. When I trained as a language teacher, I discovered many formal language teaching methodologies, such as the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Introducing Black leadership

...adults in the US, that’s 117 million people, have their faces in facial recognition networks. Police departments can currently look at these networks unregulated using algorithms that have not been audited for accuracy, yet we know facial recognition is not fail proof, and labeling faces consistently remains a challenge. You might have seen this on Facebook. My friends...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting female performance in sport and fitness

...adults. And we say that to remind ourselves that children actually have a different physiology than normal adults. And it’s because of this, that the medical specialty of Pediatrics came to light. And we now conduct research on children in order to improve their lives. And I know the same thing can be said about women. Women are not just men with boobs and tubes....
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs