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Bill Hare - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill Hare - Stories of Change

...work has been recently published in Nature Climate Change, Nature, Climatic Change, Regional Environmental Change, Climate Policy. Climate Analytics Climate Analytics - Facebook Climate Analytics - Twitter Transcript Bill Hare Interview Stories of Change Project Interview Transcript Key RH: = Roger Harrabin BH: = Bill Hare, founder and CEO of Climate Analytics. Physicist...
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Assessment in secondary mathematics
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary mathematics

...work. Mathematics is not simply a fixed collection of facts but a complex discipline. Consequently assessment in secondary mathematics should not be concerned only with what facts students can recall. Rather attention needs to be paid to the different elements of mathematics including students’ conceptual understanding of key ideas and their connections, investigative...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Learning to teach: making sense of learning to teach
Education & Development

Learning to teach: making sense of learning to teach

...worked on the radio and, I suppose, reasonably successfully (I’d worked with Chris Evans for six years)... but I felt towards the end of it – and I'm sure that getting up at 3:45 every morning wasn’t helping my mental state at all – I felt that towards the end of it that I was getting tired and that the challenges of broadcasting were not quite as great as they...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael
History & The Arts

Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael

...work, the enduring notion of 'genius' and the artist as a source of meaning...Individual artists have been the traditional focus of art history, but how do we evaluate the figure of the artist? This free course, Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael, takes the life of Raphael as a case study. You will examine sixteenth-century sources to explore the creation of...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Young people are not apathetic
Society, Politics & Law

Young people are not apathetic

...works. From the urban unrest in the UK after the killing of Mark Duggan, through to protest movements such as the Occupy movement in New York and London and many more cities - the events of 2011 caused people to reflect and ask questions injustices in the world. To use Paul Mason’s expression of the book of the same name published in 2012 one of the big questions was...
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Desert Island Discs at 75: An OpenLearn listening list
History & The Arts

Desert Island Discs at 75: An OpenLearn listening list

...work for the castaways to talk about their life and work. To mark the 75th birthday, we've chosen half a dozen episodes - all available to listen to now - with some of the people whose thoughts and work have shaped the world we live in. Denys Lasdun [Royal National Theatre] Royal National Theatre Denys Lasdun was a leading architect, one of the foremost Brutalist...
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The value and progress of jury research in Scotland
Society, Politics & Law

The value and progress of jury research in Scotland

...work in the same way as a jury of 12? Even where researchers have asked questions about jury size they are ones which barely arise in the Scottish context. Many US researchers have examined, for example, whether a jury smaller than 12 deliberates as effectively as one of 12 – a seam of research prompted by court decisions on the constitutionality of a smaller jury. But...
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Irish Women’s Poetry: Colette Bryce
OpenLearn Ireland

Irish Women’s Poetry: Colette Bryce

...work of Colette Bryce...Colette Bryce was born in 1970 in Derry, Northern Ireland. The Troubles were part of everyday life for her, as a child and a teenager. She emigrated to Britain in 1988 and has since lived mainly in London and the north of England. Bryce describes emigration as a key experience in her adult life: it informs an ‘outsiderness’ in her poetry. Bryce...
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