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Practising science: Reading the rocks and ecology
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising science: Reading the rocks and ecology

...simple sequence of events through geological time...Practising science: reading the rocks and ecology: 1.2 Minerals and rocks - To begin with, it is necessary to explain the meanings of the two terms ‘minerals’ and ‘rocks’...Practising science: reading the rocks and ecology: 1.2.1 Minerals - A mineral is a solid material, formed by natural processes and with a...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
The Byzantine icon
History & The Arts

The Byzantine icon

...simple, two-dimensional and flat representation of the central figure of Christianity and His Mother visualises a wealth of theological issues and acts as a window that opens up and invites us, through our sight, into a spiritual world. The flatness of the background lacks any hint of physical surroundings – as a viewer you simply do not know where the scene is set. It...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
A short introduction to the English language
Languages

A short introduction to the English language

...simple as it may at first seem. Activity 1 Part 1 Have a think about all the times and ways you’ve used language so far today. What have you used it to achieve? Could you have done these same things without language? What sorts of language have you used? Spoken, written, gestures or other forms of physical communication? Have you used predominantly English, or other...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Hybrid working: change management
Money & Business

Hybrid working: change management

...simple approach for establishing what and why is to ask the 5 Ws and H questions for assessing why change is needed. If you consider the decisions you make every day, you may unconsciously use this approach. For example, when you go shopping; ask yourself: What do you want to buy? Why do you need it? Where will you get it from? When are you going to go? Who needs to come...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Teaching secondary science
Education & Development

Teaching secondary science

...simple two-week course of antibiotics and bismuth. ‘I had developed my hypothesis that these bacteria were the cause of peptic ulcers and significant risk to stomach cancer. If I was right then treatment for ulcer disease would be revolutionised. It would be simple, cheap and it would be a cure. ‘It seemed to me that for the sake of patients this research had to be...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Making sense of ourselves
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of ourselves

...simple, however ‘mind reading’ involves a highly sophisticated range of cognitive skills, including the ability to take the spatial, social and emotional perspective of another person, to organise and evaluate contextual cues about what they might be thinking or feeling, and to decode subtle non-verbal behaviours. With no more information than a truncated picture of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation
Digital & Computing

Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation

...simple. It's a very simple thing to say, well, let's retrain everybody so they understand data and digital. Well, how do you do that and what do you actually mean by that? Certainly, in a business of our size, there are so many different types of employee. And actually, there are businesses within the business. Our claims department is very different to our IT department....
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
Discovering music: the blues
History & The Arts

Discovering music: the blues

...simple variation of it has rhyming words rather than repeating words for the A lines, creating what is known as a rhyming couplet. This pair of lines is followed by a single line that can be used as a refrain. The important thing to remember about this verse structure is its three-line format as it fits the musical structures of the blues. Love, sex and betrayal are...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs