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Introduction to differentiation
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to differentiation

...variables that you’ll consider here are those in which one variable is a function of the other. (For instance, in the example of the man’s walk, his displacement is a function of the time that he’s been walking.) So, in every graph in this material, every value on the horizontal axis corresponds to at most one value on the vertical axis. We’ll use the word...
Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Principles and practices of peace education
Education & Development

Principles and practices of peace education

...class can participate confidently in giving and receiving affirmations. Note that the activity is intended to be carried out with the group seated in a circle and a ‘talking piece’ is an item that a participant holds that indicates it is their time to speak. You can use the response box below to note down your ideas. If you have signed into OpenLearn, your ideas will...
Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages

...classes, ethnic groups or gender (Pullin, 1993). Equity issues are particularly important when assessment results are used to label pupils or deny them access to courses or careers in the future...Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages: 2 What should be assessed in MFL learning and how? - Having thought about what is meant by progress in MFL learning, this...
Assessment in secondary science
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary science

...class they were placed in. Often associated with these memories are feelings of anxiety or elation. For those who find learning more difficult, assessment may impact on their self-confidence and self-worth, as well as their attitude towards the subject and towards school. This is unsurprising given that examinations mean that whatever someone feels they have learned on a...
Who counts as a refugee?
Society, Politics & Law

Who counts as a refugee?

...class seat (courtesy of Reuters News Agency) into a cold and wintery England, leaving behind the warmth of my native Fiji. The cold of England was, however, warmed with English hospitality … … As I got into the car for Oxford University, it finally dawned on me that I was now in England, a country which had not only existed in my history and geography school books but...
Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Three Irish Poets – Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
OpenLearn Ireland

Three Irish Poets – Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

...de dhuilleoga feileastraim is bitiúmin agus pic bheith cuimilte lena thóin ansan é a leagadh síos i measc na ngiolcach is coigeal na mban sí le taobh na habhann, féachaint n’fheadaraís cá dtabharfaidh an sruth é, féachaint, dála Mhaoise, an bhfóirfidh iníon Fharoinn? The Language Issue I place my hope on the water in this little boat of the language, the...
Impossible Peace 2: Tea for two
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: Tea for two

...de Chastelain was in Ireland wondering when he would next be needed; waiting for the IRA to move to put more of its arms beyond use. When I left Richard McAuley on that Saturday in July 2005, I stepped into the car park at the supermarket and scribbled some words onto a post it; words I used in a BBC Radio Ulster news broadcast that lunchtime. This is what I said: “My...
Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations
History & The Arts

Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations

...class of minds and perceptions, is plain truth to another’ (preface to Martin Chuzzlewit (1867): 1951 edn, p.xv). Furthermore, as he argued in a letter to Forster: It does not seem to me to be enough to say of any description that it is the exact truth. The exact truth must be there; but the merit or art in the narrator, is the manner of stating the truth. As to which...