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Retail marketing
Money & Business

Retail marketing

...de Boer in the Netherlands employ a low-price positioning strategy. Another strategy is to launch a low-price version of an existing product targeted at price-sensitive consumers. For example, Apple launched the Mac mini, a basic version of the Macintosh computer. With this low-priced machine Apple believes it can tempt people who have bought an iPod (and become fans of...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Beginners’ German: food and drink
Languages

Beginners’ German: food and drink

...des Weiteren haben wir, äh, Käse und verschiedene Wurstsorten. Dann haben wir verschiedene Sorten Jogurt – Pfirsichjogurt, Kirschjogurt und Erdbeerjogurt. Danach Marmeladen, drei verschiedene Sorten, und heut’ haben wir Erdbeer-, Ananas- und Aprikosenmarmelade. Interviewerin Und was trinken die meisten Gäste zum Frühstück? Frau Vogt Kaffee eigentlich oder Tee,...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Voices from the Global South: an international field trip
Society, Politics & Law

Voices from the Global South: an international field trip

...de Atacama, a site of ongoing extraction of lithium from brine – in effect from water – in one of the driest parts of the world. Lithium is a key mineral in the development of lithium-ion batteries, which are central to the Global North’s ‘green transition.’ This extraction serves as an example of the ways in which the Global North’s solutions to the climate...
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Article 5 hrs
Who gets to be a human? Religion in colonial histories and Indigenous resistance
History & The Arts

Who gets to be a human? Religion in colonial histories and Indigenous resistance

...de Graaf, Nicolaas Witsen Project, Netherlands. Who or what do you think is depicted in this picture? Would you think that shamans were humans or some mythical creatures based on this image? Discussion The presence of animal claws, furry skin and reindeer horns all suggest that shamans were not really humans. This depiction of an Evenki shaman was not produced with the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Creating open educational resources
Education & Development

Creating open educational resources

...Maths everywhere For each one, consider and write brief notes about: the intended learning outcomes the activities that learners are asked to do the range of media that are employed the teaching sequence. Discussion As you look through these courses you will have seen a range of activities that learners are asked to engage with. Some, such as Play, learning and the brain,...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Astronomy with an online telescope Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Astronomy with an online telescope

...de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and administrator of the Teide observatory, gives an introduction to the site and to the various telescopes and facilities there. NARRATOR: The Teide Observatory belongs to Canarian Observatories and managed by the Institute Office of the Canaries. We have a lot of different countries here in the Teide and also in the Roque. Here, for...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
MSE’s Academy of Money Badge icon
Money & Business

MSE’s Academy of Money

...maths behind this is quite simple if you have spare income each month – it comes down to a comparison between the mortgage rate and interest rate you could get if, instead of overpaying, you placed the money into a savings account. If the mortgage rate is higher than what you can get on a savings product the answer appears to be a ‘no brainer’: pay down the mortgage...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Learning, thinking and doing
Science, Maths & Technology

Learning, thinking and doing

...maths', or 'history is just boring facts'. I'm sure you can supply your own version of this closing down of the issue. When we avoid trying to find out why we have failed to learn something there are implications for the long term as well as the short term. In the short term, we abandon a goal to succeed in learning some subject or skill which might have been important to...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs