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Homo Economicus, the East India Company and industrial espionage
Society, Politics & Law

Homo Economicus, the East India Company and industrial espionage

...creative space that elaborates on source and target and to critique power relations between them. At times this is done via ‘innocent’ strategies like pedagogical performance… Forse non ho risposto alla tua domanda… I do need to stress that language/s are important because they are political. My multilingualism has given me the vantage point of a fish out of water...
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Reading and note taking – preparation for study
Society, Politics & Law

Reading and note taking – preparation for study

...write in your own words using references and quoting sources...Reading and note taking – preparation for study: Introduction - This course is about the very basic study skills of reading and taking notes. You will be asked to think about how you currently read and then be introduced to a some techniques that may help you to alter the way you read according to the...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
EPQs: finding and using evidence
Education & Development

EPQs: finding and using evidence

...Write down similar words to your key phrases. Use a thesaurus! (4) Use ‘and’ and ‘or’ functions. (5) Use advanced search options. Ann’s summary Transcript But how do you come up with those all-important keywords? Devyani, who is a PhD student in AstrobiologyOU, gave me a few thoughts. As a PhD student, she’s just been through this process herself. She...
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How do I pitch an idea to a science editor?
Science, Maths & Technology

How do I pitch an idea to a science editor?

...write as a freelance, the editor essentially buys a service from you. If you fail to deliver the service, you’ve voided the contract and the editor has no reason to pay you. Feel free to remind Do chase editors who haven’t responded to an email within 24 hours, but don’t overdo it. An editor will be glad to be reminded if they have genuinely forgotten something, but...
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What do historians do?
History & The Arts

What do historians do?

...write, argue and explain. While all the activities in this list are correct, what links them is evidence. Historians work with evidence from the past and what all historians do, regardless of subject or time period, is to construct an understanding of the past from reading and analysing evidence. Evidence, known as primary sources, is the raw material of history and it is...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Basic science: understanding experiments
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding experiments

...creative here, but avoid substances which might be hazardous! four glasses your activity booklet a freezer. Before beginning an experiment scientists often use their previous experiences or preconceptions to hypothesise about the results of an experiment. For example, we know that ice floats on water, so a scientist might then hypothesise that the solid state of all the...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Changing cities
Society, Politics & Law

Changing cities

...creative culture and alternative economies. This free course, Changing cities, explores how contemporary processes of urbanisation challenge how we think about political agency, providing a framework for the analysis of the causes, implications and responses to issues of common concern...Urban processes are increasingly held to be responsible for causing a variety of...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)
Education & Development

Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)

...writing is head of a special school and president of the National Association for Special Educational Needs (NASEN), a national organisation for professionals working in the area of inclusion, he described fines inclusion as: a process, not a state… inclusion is not a simple concept restricted to issues of placement… Key principles are valuing diversity, entitlement,...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs